Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[chickflick]

Star Bright Farms also sells goat milk soap, shampoo, etc. It's so good. All my girls love it. It's our own shelleyb1969. She's busy with her chickens, rabbits and goats, so she doesn't come on here any more, but she's a wonderful lady. Lots of products.

Chickens are loving this weather!! So am I! Don't mind not having snow. After last year, I'm just so happy we aren't all freezing our buns off!

Have a great day, all

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Reading is hard to judge tone, i agree. Thanks for the soap links!

Sorry to any dealing with marecks, or to posts i missed..... my schedule is hit-and-miss and kinda crazy so sometimes i can't back read. I do know marecks is wind blown for miles and making it's ugly rounds. Supposably it is too late to vaccinate adults, but i am considering. The reasoning they use is that by adulthood birds have already been exposed, but what if they haven't? So i have been thinking hard.

 

[1muttsfan]

The reason it is not advisable to vaccinate adult birds is that it does not prevent infection or a carrier state. If Mareks is a problem in your location, your birds have already been exposed and already survived and become, themselves, resistant to death, but not necessarily to further infection. Vaccination, or surviving a juvenile infection, does NOT mean that these birds will not shed virus if infected later - meaning they can become visually normal carriers of infection. Vaccination does not prevent infection or shedding of virus, it only reduces the incidence of disease, and since adult birds are unlikely to die, vaccinating them is not effective. This is the same pattern as seen with chicken pox/shingles, a related herpesvirus.

The birds that are most susceptible, and most likely to die from the disease, are the young. Birds that become ill and die are infected as chicks. Those that do not immediately become sick and die will develop a latent infection which can later cause tumors in the nervous system - hence leading to the paralysis seen in young to young adult birds. The chicks need to be vaccinated at day 1 to allow them to develop immunity.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I am not sure. I know of flocks that were devastated within a month or two of exposure,adults too. As far as i know mine have not been exposed. Early on we had wild turkey, but i have different birds now? I am aware they could still be carriers. I will be relieved when i can move farther from the public auction- that is a worry for me. They are maybe 5 miles away? It is popping up all over and a good number of people i spoke to do not know what it is. That is not good! I do have screen on the windows and they are limited on range time but until i get bloodwork this spring i'll continue to be nervous, especially in lieu of my roo's odd upper respiratory that gave me trouble.... i had wanted to get the meds to clear their crd and be able to breed. The denaguard needs to be long term, remember even the short term gave daron clean chicks

 

[1muttsfan]

This may be helpful -

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-great-big-giant-mareks-disease-faq

 

[uchytil]

So, should I put the Tylan in the fridge? Bottle says to just keep it somewhere under 77 degrees.

Just gave her her first shot. From all my research, looks like I dose her again in 48 hours...
And, just got her to eat...

Nope. As long as it's at the correct temperature. I have it with other meds. Just keeps them all together.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Ok ty

(( )) to anyone dealing with it, or any other illnesses.

I meant in my last post if mine tested as carriers of anything other than crd i couldn't breed-sounded bad when i re read it!

 

[uchytil]

So, should I put the Tylan in the fridge? Bottle says to just keep it somewhere under 77 degrees.

Just gave her her first shot. From all my research, looks like I dose her again in 48 hours...
And, just got her to eat...

I said this already but some of my inject meds require 2-7degC which is tops 44.6degF. That's why I keep ones like my wormers, and Tylan in the fridge. Most of them are 77degF or below. I have seen farmers keep meds in the barn where temps fluctuate quite a bit. Seems bad to me. Now, time to unload more hay into the loft. Getting way more than needed this winter, but after last year, and with babies planned I ain't taking any chances!

 

[RaZ]

I got another egg today. Along with the one from Friday I am up to 2 eggs for the month.

 

[Opa]

I was hoping that my flock would lay 4000 eggs this year, but with the molt and seasonal slow down it's not about to happen. Lately I've only been getting 2 or 3 eggs per day, and couple of zero egg days. They did come up to 7 one day last week but mostly it's been pitiful. So far this year I've gotten 3828 eggs. With only 16 days left in the month and their lazy laying they will never reach my hoped for goal.

I spent the afternoon processing my last deer and now I'm listening to the rattle of the pressure cooker. Venison stew should make a great supper.