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I showned birds before they started testing ..... I then had my birds tested for about a 25 year period , showing all that time . Now I've not been tested in in the pass 10 years or more and still show my birds !!!!!!
The only sick birds i've seen is at the shows(that were tested) and at other people's chicken yards .
If you have bred healty birds and kept only healthy birds you can have a good time with chickens !!!! But without enough common sense(knowledge)to KNOW that a bird is sick and you bring it home with you and a bunch of hens in same shape and raise this kind of mess ................ don't go blaming anybody but yourself You Are The Problem!!!! ........ brother beleive me there will allways be plenty of sick chickens forsale !!!!
You can change your direction now by doing away with every sick bird on your place . Watch for those that look OK but are slinging their heads occasionally , this(head slinging or head jerking or head poping) is CRD or one of it's brothers !!!!!! put them down .
If your birds are fed well , raised right , penned correctly , given shade and sun when needed , never forced to live in a small round pen out in the elements or any pen where the top of the ground is hard as hell and packed like concrete with feed constantly laying on the ground , but you have furnished them with quarters to avoid direct cold wind , given them plenty of shade and a decent roost plus putting deep litter (straw,Hay,leaves,etc) in the pens , feed good quality (studied to learn what constituts a good quality feed - be independent and use your brain or one of somebody that knows what they are doing !!!! (and even then sometimes -most of the time- we listen to the wrong dumb ass , to the know-it-all professional who has a beautiful voice but is repeating what he thought he heard , but he don't know _hit) and then YOU take GOOD care of your birds ............ you got nothing to worry about .
You can then get away with just about anything = go to the shows with no worrys , look at other people's birds(handle them) But i would just keep on walking when i walk by real sick birds . But it will not hurt you are your birds to stop at the sick birds pens and point out to your friends whats going on with them and what needs to be done(the sky is not gonna fall on us - hell is not gonna break loose) - don't be afraid to tell the owner or anyone .
You can then go on home and not worry because you are raising resistent fowl but we need to remember that it's gonna allways be YOUR job to keep it that way .
It's not as hard to do as many writers make it out to be , you just need common sense , chicken sense .
I have in years pass gotten great blooded birds that were almost impossible to obtain(i had spent a big part of my life trying to get them)(these being more exspensive birds have i ever seen) ---- well when one pair arrived the cock had (i guess you'd call it CRD) as he rattled while breathing at night and would do so when stresses during the day(this cock and 9 brothers won two world Boxing championship fights two years in a row with no loses) this was gruelling competition . These inbred/close linebred birds had done this for many many previous years and also years thereafter .That was about 15 years ago (i never got rid of the rattle one cock ) but i raised a lot of birds out of him and hens(using common sense) =and to this day = not one of his offspring has ever been sick-rattled-or crd . Not a single bird got anything from him , his offspring are the best in this world - being bred by people with superior mental qualitys . He was used and kept with a lot of thought and NO fear !!!!
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I showned birds before they started testing ..... I then had my birds tested for about a 25 year period , showing all that time . Now I've not been tested in in the pass 10 years or more and still show my birds !!!!!!
The only sick birds i've seen is at the shows(that were tested) and at other people's chicken yards .
If you have bred healty birds and kept only healthy birds you can have a good time with chickens !!!! But without enough common sense(knowledge)to KNOW that a bird is sick and you bring it home with you and a bunch of hens in same shape and raise this kind of mess ................ don't go blaming anybody but yourself You Are The Problem!!!! ........ brother beleive me there will allways be plenty of sick chickens forsale !!!!
You can change your direction now by doing away with every sick bird on your place . Watch for those that look OK but are slinging their heads occasionally , this(head slinging or head jerking or head poping) is CRD or one of it's brothers !!!!!! put them down .
If your birds are fed well , raised right , penned correctly , given shade and sun when needed , never forced to live in a small round pen out in the elements or any pen where the top of the ground is hard as hell and packed like concrete with feed constantly laying on the ground , but you have furnished them with quarters to avoid direct cold wind , given them plenty of shade and a decent roost plus putting deep litter (straw,Hay,leaves,etc) in the pens , feed good quality (studied to learn what constituts a good quality feed - be independent and use your brain or one of somebody that knows what they are doing !!!! (and even then sometimes -most of the time- we listen to the wrong dumb ass , to the know-it-all professional who has a beautiful voice but is repeating what he thought he heard , but he don't know _hit) and then YOU take GOOD care of your birds ............ you got nothing to worry about .
You can then get away with just about anything = go to the shows with no worrys , look at other people's birds(handle them) But i would just keep on walking when i walk by real sick birds . But it will not hurt you are your birds to stop at the sick birds pens and point out to your friends whats going on with them and what needs to be done(the sky is not gonna fall on us - hell is not gonna break loose) - don't be afraid to tell the owner or anyone .
You can then go on home and not worry because you are raising resistent fowl but we need to remember that it's gonna allways be YOUR job to keep it that way .
It's not as hard to do as many writers make it out to be , you just need common sense , chicken sense .
I have in years pass gotten great blooded birds that were almost impossible to obtain(i had spent a big part of my life trying to get them)(these being more exspensive birds have i ever seen) ---- well when one pair arrived the cock had (i guess you'd call it CRD) as he rattled while breathing at night and would do so when stresses during the day(this cock and 9 brothers won two world Boxing championship fights two years in a row with no loses) this was gruelling competition . These inbred/close linebred birds had done this for many many previous years and also years thereafter .That was about 15 years ago (i never got rid of the rattle one cock ) but i raised a lot of birds out of him and hens(using common sense) =and to this day = not one of his offspring has ever been sick-rattled-or crd . Not a single bird got anything from him , his offspring are the best in this world - being bred by people with superior mental qualitys . He was used and kept with a lot of thought and NO fear !!!!
(this was written in response to messages on page 2036) Thanks
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