Newbie, thanks for the great community!!

[Starburst]

Hi, and welcome to BYC! So excited you joined!
Make yourself at home in this amazing community!

 

[drumstick diva]

Hello and good morning to Backyard Chickens. Hope you will enjoy it as much as we do.

 

[N F C]

Hi, you have some pretty breeds. Thanks for joining us!

 

[Backyard Hencam]

Hi and welcome! You've got quite an assortment of hens. I'll be curious to see what their personalities are like. People are always asking me which breed I recommend for backyard layers and pets. I'd like to hear your opinion. Have fun learning more on chicken-keeping.

 

[orloffer]

Welcome to BYC! There is so much to see, do, and learn here!

 

[The Long Table Farm]

So we had a sick blue maran I separated her from the rest of the girls; she got bad enough I had to put her down last week, then our cuckoo maran and our little egger got sick... It looks undeniably like MG/MS.... Snotty nostrils, goopy eyes, coughing and sneezing, lethargy...... In talking to the woman we got 6 of our birds (all the ones that started getting sick) from, she mentioned that she remembered her vet diagnosis MG and giving her antibiotics; but she didn't know enough to know the ramifications of MG/CRD in a flock.
Long story short we are going to cull the whole flock. My wife, kids and I are crushed.

 

[chrissynemetz]

So we had a sick blue maran I separated her from the rest of the girls; she got bad enough I had to put her down last week, then our cuckoo maran and our little egger got sick... It looks undeniably like MG/MS.... Snotty nostrils, goopy eyes, coughing and sneezing, lethargy...... In talking to the woman we got 6 of our birds (all the ones that started getting sick) from, she mentioned that she remembered her vet diagnosis MG and giving her antibiotics; but she didn't know enough to know the ramifications of MG/CRD in a flock.
Long story short we are going to cull the whole flock. My wife, kids and I are crushed.

Oh no! That's awful! I'm so sorry!

 

[Eggscaping]

Thanks for being here everyone.
My wife three daughters and I have 13 birds, that are as much pets as they are egg layers.
We have:

1. Lavender Orp
2. Chocolate Orp
3. Columbian Wyandotte
4. Cukoo Maran
5. Some Easter eggers
6. 2 leghorns
7. Partridge Plymouth Rock
8. Two unknown older ladies(RI red mixes or ISA Reds????)

We're glad to be a part of the group! Thanks.

Welcome to BackYardChickens! So glad to have you here in our wonderful community of friendly, helpful, knowledgeable people!

 

[The Long Table Farm]

Yesterday I culled our entire flock, it was really hard; but I absolutely know it was the right thing to do. We're going to grieve, sanitize everything and rebuild.
This was a very painful lesson in Bio-security; one we will not soon forget.

 

[chrissynemetz]

Yesterday I culled our entire flock, it was really hard; but I absolutely know it was the right thing to do. We're going to grieve, sanitize everything and rebuild.
This was a very painful lesson in Bio-security; one we will not soon forget.

That must have been so difficult, I can only imagine.