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[raisinemright]

Congrats to my son who will be wrestling for his Confrence championship on Thursday! He battled hard for the first of the two day event tonight!! Couldn't be more proud.


Oh and here is a pic of a larger Nubian doe

 

[Acornewell]

Before Now

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

I went outside just a bit ago trying to get one of the cats up so I could lock up and found a Marans egg sitting in what snow is left along the side of the house! They've taken a break again so it was a surprise!
I hate that pics just don't do them justice!!

Oh its super dark, congrats to the resumption of spring and laying!

Speaking of pics. I've been trying to take some of the chicks to enter in the Easter HAL contest but none seem good enough! Lol! I only get to submit 2! How can I pick just 2!

I'm waiting on these silkies and new MF Cochin to hatch. Candled the 10 shipped MF Cochin eggs, I had slipped them under my broody to see how they faired with her vs my incubator and only 4 are developing. Surprised though since all of their air cells were in great shape. The two silkie eggs she was sitting on I stuck in the incubator at lockdown. They are at day 21 tomorrow. I bought a Brinsea 20 Eco this past week off a fellow BYCer. Giving it a go and will be using it for the Easter HAL also! I was going to build another Coolerbator as the other one is occupied by the EMU eggs. I have all the materials but the cooler. I'm just holding off at this point since I really don't want to be hatching out mixes.

Here's a few chick pics!

Both pics are tooo cute!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Hey all I am new to actually posting I normally use byc for info but I figured it was time to introduce myself. I "breed" sizzles, paint silkies, assorted d'uccle, and silver phoenix. I also keep a verity of different breeds as well as 2 geese, 12 turkeys, 3 pheasants (2 red golden and 1ringneck. ISO male RG)I am down to 5 ducks and 0 guineas!!
boys from the paint pen.


black d'uccle roo


black hens from the paint pen.


sizzles just for fun.


emu egg due in about 10 days.


few of the phoenix the others seem to live on the roost.


my lemon millie fluer hen mid moult at a show.


white d'uccle roo (he has filled out well since this pic)


one of my favorite silkies a lavender cuckoo

and I love your choices. Adore your turkeys! Please just jump in and post all the pics you want.

 

[bradselig]

ahhh.....so jealous...look like you found a money tree...lol....i had to do a double take on the unit...with the glass door....that looks so nice...i just got the top water feed units for both the hatcher and incubator...very easy to instal....works great...are you using ro water or distilled water....? also got in peafowl egg trays/quail trays and quail breeding pen so super excited...been busy in this nice warm day today.. was behind....100 posts but all caught up now

I'm loving the clear door! So much easier to see inside. I still need to get more trays. I can't believe how expensive they are! These cheap ones I bought are working for now. My money tree has died lol. I'm using distilled water. I had the auto waterer with my last homemade cabinet incubator. I just used regular tap water. Well when I went to reinstall it in this unit, it was so limed up it was crazy. I had to really clean it up but now it's like new.

 

[ellymayRans]

Thought I would share craigslist Wookie's beak progress! I am so pleased that his face is actually straightening out!!! Poor guy! I hope he is happier!

Awe! He's so lucky to have you!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

So glad she is doing better. How are you? You have to be exhausted on many levels. Cheers to your Gander! Where do you have your meal worms? We are trying to decide between meal worms and back soldier fly larvae. I have a lot of allergies and asthma and am worried about mealies.
Quote: Mealworms are in the unheated but attached garage, in plastic totes. I use a mask and nitrile gloves when I work with them, and take the bins out... outside, they are really dusty when the bins are mature. I have psoriasis and some allergies so some stuff will really get me! Mine lived thru the sub zero, and I do still have live beetles! So I will be sorting and freshening bins next day its not raining.
I am doing good, Dads checkup at the heart hospital went very well today. Mom sees her family Dr thursday for follow up on the intestinal infection. The nurse that did the dismissal told me to watch for too much fried food

(also means no chicken sandwiches from BK...DAD) Both of them like processed fried food way too much,

 

[lbaur2]

Before Now

he looks great! Reminds me of my buff silkie Gordy who passed away last week.

 

[kittydoc]

For everyone looking for answers about avian influenza, the best information will be on the BOAH (Indiana Board of Animal Health) website, as well as USDA, CDC, and APHIS websites (federal agencies which all include monitoring or oversight over avian influenza).

I was asked what happens to eggs that may be AI infected. Honestly, I have not found a QUICK answer to that question. I don't know if they survive to hatch or not. For those of us who use incubators and brood artificially, it's less of a concern because any illness that might potentially occur will happen before the chicks are old enough to put outside. For those who use broodies (the "old fashioned" way man has used since we domesticated poultry), it's less clear. An infected chick, if it survives to hatch, could certainly infect the broody and other birds it has contact with. What I do not know is whether these infected eggs survive to hatch. It may depend on whether they carry the low pathogenic (less bad) AI, or the high pathogenic (very bad) AI. In all cases, AI causes hens to decrease egg production and produce thinner-shelled and misshapen eggs.

Here is a more comprehensive website that I came across today: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/ It deals with the illness in birds and people, and what is being do to monitor it (surveillance). A month ago, most HPAI cases were found in backyard flocks. That has not been the case since then. It has hit some very large hatcheries in several states.

I think we are OK to continue to buy hatching eggs and set only the ones that look "normal." I think most of us do that anyway because we're more likely to get a generally healthy chick out of normal looking eggs with normally thick shells. However, if you wish to err on the side of caution, don't use broodies on hatching eggs obtained from untrusted sources. You can certainly use broodies on your own stock. If you are buying from Indiana breeders, you might ask them if they have at least had their flock screened (the free screening of a dozen eggs that I posted about a day or two ago). Testing clear is not proof that 100% of your birds are clean, but that plus knowing there have been no unusual deaths or illnesses among that flock should be reassuring. I would be disinclined to buy hatching eggs from locations near the areas where outbreaks have been known to occur, though my understanding is that besides culling infected flocks, the USDA does surveillance on all nearby flocks for a while to make sure they are NOT infected as well.

 

[ellymayRans]

Congrats to my son who will be wrestling for his Confrence championship on Thursday! He battled hard for the first of the two day event tonight!! Couldn't be more proud.


Oh and here is a pic of a larger Nubian doe

Congrats! My oldest son now almost 20 wrestled and I loved it! Now my youngest son age 5 was his first year. He wrestled @45#s and won 5th then 4th at his first two tournaments. Love it!

Good luck!