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[Acornewell]

I read it! I actually just went and disinfected my boots too!

 

[Acornewell]

I don't know how well this works...but this is a neat, ECOnomical idea:
http://hencam.com/henblog/2014/04/natural-coop-disinfectant/

 

[raisinemright]

My Wheaton Marans are finally starting to lay again!! Man I thought they forgot how to.
I'll be setting a dozen of my barn yard mix plus a few of cochins from kab. My mix include HENS: EE, RIR, buff orp, Black Australorp, BR, white legs, JG, SLW, Cochins
ROOSTERS: EE, Cochin, RIR, JG, GLW!!
All large fowl
This should be one crazy batch of mutts lol!
I know my EE roo Cricket is the boss over most hens.
and my sons Black Cochin Roo from kabhyper1 splits the job between my RIR (he is boss mostly) over the RIR, BR, and Cochin hens!
So we will see what hatches out of these mix.

I forgot my Golden comet hens, and JG Roo lol yes its quite the colorful flock

 

[birdman55]

i think i miss on where you can get the egg kits....can anyone post that again...thanks

 

[Acornewell]

i think i miss on where you can get the egg kits....can anyone post that again...thanks

http://inpoultry.org/documents/T-12.pdf

 

[kabhyper1]

@kabhyper1 One suggestion for possibly putting a little weight back on your formerly egg-bound hen would be to raise a food (and perhaps water, too, unless you use a nipple water system already) container for her, almost level with her head. If she does have spinal damage from having been egg-bound, it may be more difficult for her to bend down to eat. Not necessarily painful, but it might make her feel more off-balance to lower her head. It's something to consider. You may have already noticed this.

If you can keep her going, she may well improve at least somewhat. It takes the nervous system a long time to heal. Did the prednisone increase her appetite at all? If so, perhaps asking your vet for suggestions for a lower but effective dose every other day to increase appetite for a few weeks might help. B12 also boost appetite in most species is are almost never harmful since it is water-soluble and excess is excreted by the kidneys. You could add it to the flock's water as part of a B-complex or multivamin powder, or just give it to her if she is isolated.

I actually raised her bowl yesterday morning. She was eating last night and today, so I'm hoping she starts putting weight back on. Ya she does seem to need to counter balance lol. She has no fluid retention in her abdomen. I really think she has temp nerve damage. She only pants before lay and after for awhile, so I think its actually painful for her right now to lay her eggs. She is happy as a clam the rest of the time. I think since it does take so long for nerve damage to heal, sje may be a penguin awhile. I'm just happy she is laying eggs and not internally laying. She only had a 5 day dose of pred, I stretched the last two out to wean her off she has one dose today and shes done.I have been putting vitamins probiotics and colloidal silver in her water. I swear by that stuff, it has cured my birds of some stuff that antibiotics wouldn't touch. I feel badly for her that she wants to be normal so much , but her body isn't cooperating. As long as she eats enough, I think she will heal up okay. I am going to put her with my silkie hen that has cataracts for company. Oh and I was going to mention First State Vet has really good prices on Oxine. I got my gallon from there. I'm going to make a boot bath with it in front of our barn door with one of those boot trays. I mist it around the barn occasionally also. Love the stuff.

 

[kabhyper1]

My baby Domino. I love how she is growing out! I have some of her brothers available if anyone is interested!

 

[Leahs Mom]

RE: AI
I have a couple of questions.

1. Originally the AI seemed to have been found only in indoor raised turkey production facilities from what I think I read. DO THESE FACILITIES HATCH and sell poults?

2. Did the folks where they found AI in the "backyard flock" have turkeys? If so, where did the turkeys originate from?

3. How long has the backyard flock been there? Where did their birds originate from?

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: I was going to edit this down just to the turkey dinner part. Still there is so much good info, I reconsidered and am leaving the full post.

I'm kind of glad the turkeys will cost a bit more as this year I fully intend to raise my own and sell off the extras. Typically the stores sell the turkeys for much less than it would cost me to feed a turkey. the 88 cents a pound last year was unbelievable. Someone had to be taking a loss to get more profit elsewhere. They just had to be.

 

[amwchickin]

@ChickCrazed - your post on the avian flu got me wondering as well. The last time I was in Rural King, I talked to someone about guineas and turkeys, they had mentioned that all of their turkeys come from the local Perdue farms. As in, they live close to them and everytime they see one out in a field, or fallen off a truck and is still alive, they take it home. I would say that many people do things like this. Last year I am pretty sure that two pullets I got from a swap outside of TSC caused the illness in my flock. Even my DF said the other day that he saw a white turkey in the woods and he thought about going up and trying to catch it to bring home. I gave him a stern look and reminded him what we had to go through last year with the chicken plague! I told him under no circumstances will a bird be brought to the farm without knowing where it's from and that place doesn't have any illnesses. DF - 0, Me - 1. (Finally, as the man is always right!)