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[Chaneys Ranch]

Loved all the pictures everyone! And welcome to any new members joining our thread

 

[kabhyper1]

Well my mixed color silkies are officially done for. Almost time to start putting real colors together. Of the 12 eggs under my girls now, only 5 are developing, so that tells me that the fertility is finally dwindling in my girls from being with the boys. Due to the recent bird flu issues I will no longer be shipping eggs out of state until the threat is over. Too many restrictions, and they are per state, so very complicated. Plus I need to get NPIP before summer still anyway. However I still plan on shipping in state to those who want them once I start putting birds together for showable colors. I will have, white, black, paint (soon), blue black splash, and blue cream (porcelain). I will also be working on grays.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: Its hard being gone during the hatching but it is a better use of time. I've gotten to where I try to be gone for part of the hatching or at least asleep for part of it.

 

[twoboystwogirls]

Just got some awful news tonight. A friend of mine in Wisconsin has avian flu in her flock. She has about 30 or 40 birds including some gorgeous frizzles. She also has some turkeys and ducks. The vet told her that all the birds must be euthanized. She does not have a pond. She had a dairy goat farm. The birds stayed dying a few days ago but she says they almost quit laying a couple days before that and are thought that to be strange since she gets a couple dozen a day. Then when they started dying she called the vet. I haven't been there since last summer. I definitely won't be visiting this summer.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Well my mixed color silkies are officially done for. Almost time to start putting real colors together. Of the 12 eggs under my girls now, only 5 are developing, so that tells me that the fertility is finally dwindling in my girls from being with the boys. Due to the recent bird flu issues I will no longer be shipping eggs out of state until the threat is over. Too many restrictions, and they are per state, so very complicated. Plus I need to get NPIP before summer still anyway. However I still plan on shipping in state to those who want them once I start putting birds together for showable colors. I will have, white, black, paint (soon), blue black splash, and blue cream (porcelain). I will also be working on grays.

Its really getting unnerving to say the least. Can't wait to see the paints, I bet they are gorgeous!

Quote: Its hard being gone during the hatching but it is a better use of time. I've gotten to where I try to be gone for part of the hatching or at least asleep for part of it.
X2, I am peering in the window a dozen times an hour if I can't be away!

Just got some awful news tonight. A friend of mine in Wisconsin has avian flu in her flock. She has about 30 or 40 birds including some gorgeous frizzles. She also has some turkeys and ducks. The vet told her that all the birds must be euthanized. She does not have a pond. She had a dairy goat farm. The birds stayed dying a few days ago but she says they almost quit laying a couple days before that and are thought that to be strange since she gets a couple dozen a day. Then when they started dying she called the vet. I haven't been there since last summer. I definitely won't be visiting this summer.

Thats terribly sad! Were her birds confined, or free ranged at all?

 

[ellymayRans]

Just got some awful news tonight. A friend of mine in Wisconsin has avian flu in her flock. She has about 30 or 40 birds including some gorgeous frizzles. She also has some turkeys and ducks. The vet told her that all the birds must be euthanized. She does not have a pond. She had a dairy goat farm. The birds stayed dying a few days ago but she says they almost quit laying a couple days before that and are thought that to be strange since she gets a couple dozen a day. Then when they started dying she called the vet. I haven't been there since last summer. I definitely won't be visiting this summer.

That's very sad. I'm so sorry.

 

[Bawk]

Very sorry for your friend. I wish we didn't have to worry about disease so much. My husband always shows old pictures of chickens just out free ranging, many of them...wonder how nice it was with no worry of disease back then.

I told him we chase the geese off but the Mallards need to go too..but he pointed out any birds can spread it and that's true.

Will pray for her, feel so sorry for her.

 

[flyladyrocks]

That is so horrible and very sad. I cant imagine what she must be feelinf. I wonder what it takes to put the breaks on spreading this thing!

Just got some awful news tonight. A friend of mine in Wisconsin has avian flu in her flock. She has about 30 or 40 birds including some gorgeous frizzles. She also has some turkeys and ducks. The vet told her that all the birds must be euthanized. She does not have a pond. She had a dairy goat farm. The birds stayed dying a few days ago but she says they almost quit laying a couple days before that and are thought that to be strange since she gets a couple dozen a day. Then when they started dying she called the vet. I haven't been there since last summer. I definitely won't be visiting this summer.

 

[kittydoc]

Just got some awful news tonight. A friend of mine in Wisconsin has avian flu in her flock. She has about 30 or 40 birds including some gorgeous frizzles. She also has some turkeys and ducks. The vet told her that all the birds must be euthanized. She does not have a pond. She had a dairy goat farm. The birds stayed dying a few days ago but she says they almost quit laying a couple days before that and are thought that to be strange since she gets a couple dozen a day. Then when they started dying she called the vet. I haven't been there since last summer. I definitely won't be visiting this summer.

What terrible news. I am so sorry for her and none of us have to know her to imagine how awful it would be to have to put down our entire flock. It's headed this way, sure as shootin'. Only a matter of time. I appreciate your reporting that she noticed the loss of egg laying prior to the deaths. That gives us another clue that we all hope to heaven we do not ever see. I now view geese and ducks as the Enemy.

 

[kittydoc]

Very sorry for your friend. I wish we didn't have to worry about disease so much. My husband always shows old pictures of chickens just out free ranging, many of them...wonder how nice it was with no worry of disease back then.

I told him we chase the geese off but the Mallards need to go too..but he pointed out any birds can spread it and that's true.

Will pray for her, feel so sorry for her.

This highly deadly avian flu is spread by wild waterfowl, so if I were you, I'd chase off the wild ducks and not worry a bit about the songbirds. It has never been reported by any authority that it comes from songbirds, just wild waterfowl, which are just geese and ducks, mostly Canada geese and mallard (though can be any species) ducks. I just want to correct this so people don't flip out if a sparrow lands on their property.

Worry about what's real, not what's speculation. Marek's is the only disease that is everywhere in the environment and carried by all species of birds, which is why everyone should buy vaccinated chicks from hatcheries, or vaccinate their birds themselves. It is the only vaccine recommended for backyard flocks by the avian veterinarians as Purdue. They need to get on the stick and come up with a multivalent vaccine against AI, but it's hard because like human flu and colds, there are almost 100 combinations of it. It's very, very difficult to make vaccines against that many different genetic types, but they could focus on the worst strains surely. I hope within a year or two there will be a useful avian influenza vaccine for our poultry, but for now, all we can do is be alert, and do not be afraid to report deaths in your flock. If you do nothing, you will still lose all your birds, and also contribute to its spread which is unfair to your neighbors. You would not want someone to stick their head in the sand and by doing so expose your flock.

Be vigilant. Be smart. Be knowledgeable.