Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[math ace]

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I rigged some chicken wire around the outside and let them have at it during the day time. At night I lock them up in the brooder. I am moving mine around the yard every couple of weeks. It is doing wonders for the grass!

 

[math ace]

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I candle at day 7 and day 14. Tomorrow is day 7. . . so I will let you know in a few days.

Day 7, I look for cracks and development. Anything that looks crystal clear gets an "X" on it and is placed back in the incubator for one more week.
If it looks like a dud on day 14 . . . it is removed.

I'll let you know if my flashlight works on your eggs. . . I got it at SAMS

 

[kowgurl62]

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Hi Spitman, really cool incubator. What did you use for the temp control? I've got plans for a homemade incubator off ebay, I'm off today so I think I'm gonna go to Lowe's and get the stuff to get started on it. It uses the wafer type thermostat, I'm not sure i want to use that, I would rather have something electronic that has better heat control, more like a house thermostat.

Have got 30 shipped marans eggs in the foam incubator right now. I can't wait

Got a question for all you experienced hatchers on here, what brand of hygrometer/thermometer are ya'll using? I bought an electronic display one off ebay from incubator warehouse, very easy touse, and I "think" it's pretty accurate. just wondering what is working best for everyone else.

 

[flgardengirl]

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his is from (World Organization for Animal Health- the world's leading authority on animal disease control etc.)website click on the link about THE USE OF VACCINATION AS AN OPTION FOR THE CONTROL OF AVIAN INFLUENZA It is a PDF file

http://www.oie.int/en/for-the-media...n-animal-species-by-vaccination-if-necessary/

DID I READ THE LINK CORRECTLY? IS IT their policy that BYC community needs to kill their chickens UNLESS it is possible to contaminate the industrial chicken industry ? ? ? The BYC community can be vaccinated, IF AND ONLY IF the industrial chicken community is at risk AND HIGHLY at risk? ? ?

I didn't understand what this section was saying . . .

Several recombinant fowlpox viruses expressing the H5 antigen have been developed (1, 2, 20, 21, 24) and one has been licensed and is being used currently in Mexico (22). Experimental data have also been obtained for fowlpox virus recombinants expressing the H7 antigen (3). Other vectors have been used to successfully deliver the H5 or H7 antigens, such as constructs using infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) (16).

Can some one interpret that for me ? ?

Antigens are proteins that trigger an immune response. They are using in different forms in different vaccines. Many of the new vaccines are Recombinant vaccines or you might hear them referred to as DNA recombinant vaccines.
It is saying they used a recombinant vaccine (which uses genes for a certain antigen which are inserted into a virus/vector that has low virulence /ability to infect. This vector/virus expressing the antigen
can be used straight out or purified and injected. I guess you could say they take a protein from one virus and put it into another less virulent one and use it to trick an immune response from the body against the first more virulent virus. I hope that makes sense.


What our government would do if there was a serious outbreak would probably depend on recommendations from Epidemiologists and the CDC. At least with vaccines in the works hopefully it could be kept at a minimum.

 

[gilavina]

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I rigged some chicken wire around the outside and let them have at it during the day time. At night I lock them up in the brooder. I am moving mine around the yard every couple of weeks. It is doing wonders for the grass!

You have grass.....sigh...someday

haha...just feeling sorry for myself....more rain/sleet and grayness today, but I'm still outside working on putting up the fencing around the garden.....I'm determined I'm gonna get things done. I'm not going to let it make me give up on spring. Plus, I'm gonna need all the help I can get to keep my girls from eating all my tomatoes. Last year they went crazy over them!! Oh and the strawberries too....crazy chickens.

 

[flgardengirl]

Ohhh I need to get fencing up around the garden as well. I still have all my peppers, tomatoes and other seedlings in pots lol. I have been using all my fencing for runs. I think I am going to do my tomatoes in pots this year because they were so bad last year. I have figured out we have nematodes in our soil here.

 

[Raven1]

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Plant some Marigolds!

 

[flgardengirl]

I have heard those work well. How many would I have to plant? Are they used to attract the nematodes away from the tomatoes? So put them on the opposite side?

 

[gilavina]

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Plant some Marigolds!

I've never really had to worry about Nematodes here, but that is an awesome tip...I didn't know that marigolds worked for that...yet another reason I love those smelly little flowers. Last year I grew some 12" tall varigated Marigolds, but they liked the space so well in the garden I had them in that I had a solid, dense, and heavy hedge row that was about 3 feet tall and about 3 feet wide...they were beautiful, but had to move them when they started shadowing all my smaller veggies. I'm hoping to replicate the conditions for them again this year and am going to put them on the outside of the fencing to create a hedge row look of flowers...plus they say that Marigolds in a border around the garden really reduces the number of pests in the garden. I'll take allllll the help they want to give!

 

[gilavina]

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I have all my cole crops in seedlings, but haven't even started my warm season crops yet...mostly I have a bit of time before I can get them in the ground...I'm going to try to get the summer crops seeds going this week still. Just another thing to add to the to do list....I will get it all done, I will get it all done!!