"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[Ron Skekel]

Are Barbasaiux and Bresse breeds of chickens. Can someone answer my question please?

They are rare breeds of chickens that lay a good amount of eggs but they were breed for meat more than eggs. Which is good all the Cornish cross are for meat you buy them raise butcher then by again. The heritage breeds you buy once build a flock butcher some then hatch eggs for more eggs. Pam

 

[Ron Skekel]

Well here's the hatch 2 ayam cremanie the other two were alive and pipped and partly zipped when I left for Metairie. When I got home they hadn't hatched so I helped they were dead I guess the other chicks smothered them. Wish I could have stayed home to hatch them. The Swiss black hens nine hatched one fully formed died in shell. I have 4 more eggs I'll let go one more day. Pam

 

[Cody A]

Hi Cody so glad your clean

I'm behind on my posts and was going to give you Linzi's # lol she's wonderful and when she did my NPIP really quick n fast way easier than I planned. Hope all is well for everyone else also looking for some new peeps to join as everyone that come too our newly named Best Friend Farms (or our BFF's) is encouged to check out BYC. What do ya'll think of the name?

Hey Ms. Kitty. I like the name, kinda goes with the times.

 

[Cody A]

I got the results back on the cultures from the necropsy. Again there was no signs of anything.

The state vet looked at the photos taken by Linzi as he was out the day I brought the bird to them.
It's possible it could be Infectious Laryngotracheitis (ILT). There looked to be some inflammation in the trachea but it was hard to tell. I put the bird in the fridge and not the freezer so it could have just been blood pooling in the trachea walls. I've seen none of the symptoms of ILT. I pick up my birds everyday(not all of them) and get a close up of their faces and have seen nothing like this. Linzi said to keep an eye on them and to watch for blood in mucus and nasal discharge. The birds will shake their heads to "shake" the mucus out of their nose and throat.

These are symptoms of ILT.

• Dyspnoea.
• Gasping.
• Coughing of mucus and blood.
• Drop in egg production.
• Ocular discharge.
• Sinusitis.
• Nasal discharge

Here's a link http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/83/infectious-laryngotracheitis-ilt/

I may never know why this bird died but at least there has been disease/virus/bacteria ruled out and no worms.

 

[Cody A]

I cooked one of the CX cockerels yesterday evening. I usually do two dual purpose at a time in this roaster or a 20+ pound turkey.

I thought the bird had more flavor than a commercial raised but hard to tell. My family thought it was delicious and really liked it. The last few weeks I fed them grains and a lot of corn. These birds had tons of fat on them. I think I like the dual purpose birds better but I like more dark meat than white. It was still quite tasty though. I would raise these birds again. They really fill up the freezer. I was able to squeeze most of them into the regular size shrink wrap bags but a few needed turkey size bags.

 

[Ron Skekel]

Hey Ms. Kitty. I like the name, kinda goes with the times.  

Thats what I'm hoping for Cody.

 

[topdog24]

Hi everyone, and whoever has this beautiful garden, Wow. If your garden looked better before that's hard to believe it must have really been magnificent! I haven't seen such a pretty garden before and I love to garden. You must devote a lot of time to your garden. You also must have a really nice climate for gardening wherever you're at. The weather here has been really strange. It was cold for a long time and it'll heat up a little bit , and then it's been raining and raining and my stuff is just starting to get a good foothold. My squash are just starting to take off pretty good and my tomatoes are really nice and big but my peppers that's another story. I always end up with more than I need in the long run. I love looking at a beautiful garden and yours sure is!

HI sssharon, I assume you are talking about my garden, we are in central LA. Jena in fact, my wife works the garden while I am gone and I take over when I get home and give her a break, she is canning or freezing almost everything, except for what we cook, it is some kind of good.

 

[topdog24]

I got the results back on the cultures from the necropsy. Again there was no signs of anything.

The state vet looked at the photos taken by Linzi as he was out the day I brought the bird to them.
It's possible it could be Infectious Laryngotracheitis (ILT). There looked to be some inflammation in the trachea but it was hard to tell. I put the bird in the fridge and not the freezer so it could have just been blood pooling in the trachea walls. I've seen none of the symptoms of ILT. I pick up my birds everyday(not all of them) and get a close up of their faces and have seen nothing like this. Linzi said to keep an eye on them and to watch for blood in mucus and nasal discharge. The birds will shake their heads to "shake" the mucus out of their nose and throat.

These are symptoms of ILT.

• Dyspnoea.
• Gasping.
• Coughing of mucus and blood.
• Drop in egg production.
• Ocular discharge.
• Sinusitis.
• Nasal discharge

Here's a link http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/83/infectious-laryngotracheitis-ilt/

I may never know why this bird died but at least there has been disease/virus/bacteria ruled out and no worms.

Good info Cody, thanks for sharring, mine main flock showed some of those signs, I treated them with tylan 100 soluble for 3 days, fed the egg back to them either boiled or scrambled for 10 days, They are back tp normal, eat their weight in feed every day and egg count is back above 40 eggs daily from 63 hens

 

[lakones]

I haven't had a lot of time to work on the new coop, but I did get out there today. I need one more day and it will be ready for paint, wire and chickens!! Below are a couple of pics, but it's kinda hard to tell what the layout is. Basically it is a 12'x24' building that we had a ton of junk in! I cleaned it out and framed a wall down the middle length ways so that there were two 6'x24' sections. The the one on the right I divided into four coops and also added one at the rear on the left side. I have built the nesting boxes and droppings boards along with a couple of shelves for supplies, but I am painting them separately and will install later. Two windows are installed on the right side and I have two more to install on the left and one on the back wall, but I have to wait for hubby's help with those. Each coop will have an exit door thru the wall to a 10'x30' run. I don't plan on running more than 10 birds in each so 36 sq ft inside and 300 sq ft outside should be good.

 

[Ron Skekel]

Hi Linda,
I received the capon tools today thank you very much. Now to start learning. I'll let you know how things go. Did you ever do it successfully capon any roo. I do plan on learning post mortum. Pam