Nevadans?

[americanvalkyrie]

Missy what was it they caught? a resperatory thing?

It's definitely respiratory. I think it's coryza, but I'm still not completely sure. And I'm guessing it was carried on the wind, or a wild bird or mouse, since there are so many coops in the area. I lost 9, before I figured out what it was and what I could do to control it. And I still didn't control it. It spread from the big kids to the little kids, then to the new chicks, then to the hens, and all of this in just over 2 weeks. It's like it had a mind of its own. But Sulmet and Duramycin in the water seem to be keeping the rest of the birds alive. I have no idea how laying quality will be in the future, but I do know one thing... now, once a bird enters this property, it doesn't leave unless it's been vaccinated before catching the disease. And if you haven't caught up on the thread, Sunny bought a bunch of vaccine for coryza, and we can buy it from her at 10cents per dose.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Oh wow, missy. How stressful Im so sorry you had to deal with that. Sounds like youre managing it well now though.
and yeah, id be interested in some vaccines, sunny. Not because of this situation but because its something id thought of doing for a while anyhow.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Oh wow, missy. How stressful Im so sorry you had to deal with that. Sounds like youre managing it well now though.
and yeah, id be interested in some vaccines, sunny. Not because of this situation but because its something id thought of doing for a while anyhow.

I realized how senseless a lot of this illness was when I calculated the cost of 100 doses as the cost of one of the marans chicks that I had to cull. It's stuff you just don't think about until it happens close to you.

But you know... a friend came over today, who is a very organic person. She always buys eggs that say, "no antibiotics." But after dealing with this, and realizing how much worse it would be at a commercial farm, I bet you anything the "no antibiotics" label means, "no antibiotics within a certain number of weeks before butcher or laying." How can they possibly run a large-scale operation without medicating their chickens?

 

[SunnyDawn]

You're welcome Pam! Keep us updated on how the move goes. I'm hoping the next time I get a broody that the move will go much smoother.

Oh wow, missy. How stressful Im so sorry you had to deal with that. Sounds like youre managing it well now though.
and yeah, id be interested in some vaccines, sunny. Not because of this situation but because its something id thought of doing for a while anyhow.

No problem. I have plenty of vaccine left. We just got it divied up this weekend. That was the one good thing about this whole mess. We all discovered that it can be prevented with a simple vaccination. Where we live now we have a lot of other flocks around us so it is a much bigger concern for me here than it was in town. Course there were probably a lot more chickens around me there than I realized. No one has roosters in town so it's hard to tell there are chickens unless they are super close to you.

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They do have to medicate but they do all the vaccines in a large operation like that and no antibiotics just means they are not giving them every day in the feed like some operations do. Just like with humans it is very bad for chickens to be given too many antibiotics. There is just no excuse for giving it to them non-stop in their feed on a daily basis.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

No problem. I have plenty of vaccine left. We just got it divied up this weekend. That was the one good thing about this whole mess. We all discovered that it can be prevented with a simple vaccination. Where we live now we have a lot of other flocks around us so it is a much bigger concern for me here than it was in town. Course there were probably a lot more chickens around me there than I realized. No one has roosters in town so it's hard to tell there are chickens unless they are super close to you.

yeah i found out that since mark and i moved into the neighborhood three more houses on our street have gotten chickens. so who knows how close others are...

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Wow the backyard chicken thing really is taking off! With all the magazine articles and even a few news stories over the last few years I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

let me know if youd like to get together soon. im off today and tomorrow

 

[SunnyDawn]

let me know if youd like to get together soon. im off today and tomorrow

I'll shoot you a pm.

 

[SagebrushMama]

Too funny, I gave a few chicks to a kindergarten class in Carson City and now chicken fever has spread thru the school. I'm such an enabler. Now there's talk about the school getting an incubator and hatching their own eggs. The teachers were thinking about eggs 20 per class and there's 4 classes. Mawhahaha!

 

[aubreynoramarie]

omg good work, hahaha