North Carolina

[BHep]

Good morning every body!!!

I need some advice:

We brought home those chickens from WCA last weekend, not knowing I needed a quarantine. I spent all day Monday in the pouring down rain building a separate pen for them that's 10'x10' with 3 nesting boxes and an 8ft roost. I enclosed the top with bird netting to keep them from flying out. I realize they spent the first 24 hours together and anything airborne will be spread, but I'm really trying to keep them separate to observe them. I treated all my birds with Zimecterin Gold since the new ones showed signs of worms.

Every time I turn around my husband has intentionally opened the gate to the new pen to let the chickens out and the new birds are in my original coop and my original birds are in the new pen using their food and water bowl and pecking at the ground! We have had 3 arguments over this the past few days where I keep telling him to please stop letting the birds out, I want to keep them separated. He keeps getting a huge attitude and telling me it's pointless they've already been around each other. I spent ALL DAY building this pen by myself, I want these chickens to use it! I also want to be able to see who's poo is who's and who is laying. Obviously anything I'm saying isn't helping, I wanted some outside advice on how to approach this with my husband because I am so sick of arguing over chickens!!!

Have you DH read this: http://www.barnyardhealth.com/resinindompo.html


We are only telling you to quarantine for the health of your flock and for your sanity. Once they get sick...they are carriers forever. You will need to close your flock, you cannot sell them or add more. If the state gets involved your property will be quarantined !! This is no joke.

 

[dutchbunny83]

Thank you so much for this I will share it with him.
I am trying so hard to keep everyone healthy!
Hopefully I dodged a bullet this time and the birds just had worms.
No more adult birds for me!

 

[BHep]

Thank you so much for this I will share it with him.
I am trying so hard to keep everyone healthy!
Hopefully I dodged a bullet this time and the birds just had worms.
No more adult birds for me!

Just be careful and note that chicks and eggs CAN carry the same diseases. All I can tell you is Quarantine ! Tell your DH it is not a bad word.

 

[dutchbunny83]

Okay thanks!
Up until now I was only buying vaccinated day old chicks from certified hatcheries, and then keeping them in the brooder for at least 4 weeks before putting them in their own coop/run.
I was tempted by already laying hens and didn't know anything about quarantine or adding new birds to the flock.
Live and learn I guess. Hoping for the best from this experience.

BY THE WAY...
Anyone know about deworming other animals? I have 2 lionhead bunnies that we let free range the backyard with the chickens and a cat. All have separate food and water dishes, but they all like one in particular so they all use it. My bunnies even stopped eating their rabbit pellets all together, they just eat the chicken crumbles right out of the chicken feeder, guess it tastes better. They eat grass all day long, so I wasn't too worried about it. But now I'm thinking if worm eggs are just randomly in the ground, and the other chickens had evidence of worms, should I deworm the bunnies and cat???

 

[BHep]

Okay thanks!
Up until now I was only buying vaccinated day old chicks from certified hatcheries, and then keeping them in the brooder for at least 4 weeks before putting them in their own coop/run.
I was tempted by already laying hens and didn't know anything about quarantine or adding new birds to the flock.
Live and learn I guess. Hoping for the best from this experience.

BY THE WAY...
Anyone know about deworming other animals? I have 2 lionhead bunnies that we let free range the backyard with the chickens and a cat. All have separate food and water dishes, but they all like one in particular so they all use it. My bunnies even stopped eating their rabbit pellets all together, they just eat the chicken crumbles right out of the chicken feeder, guess it tastes better. They eat grass all day long, so I wasn't too worried about it. But now I'm thinking if worm eggs are just randomly in the ground, and the other chickens had evidence of worms, should I deworm the bunnies and cat???

Yes.. they do need to be dewormed. You will need to google that for dosage and type of dewormer. I will not say on here what I have done.

I am sure I will get slammed.

 

[NewHomesteader2010]

Where do you go strawberry (or blueberry) picking???

And is there an age on kids? Up north where I'm from the kids can't go because the farmers think they trample plants (I guess they had some bad experiences with parents that don't know how to watch their kids!)

I try every year to grow strawberries and never have any luck. This year we put 4 blueberry bushes in the back yard and my chickens ate them down to the stump, even the branches!!!

I know you didn't ask me, but I thought I would share since we too go strawberry picking and LOVE the farm we go to. They let my daughter last year (she was just shy of 2 at the time) pick with us (even gave her a "take home" bucket) and while she ate more than she picked, they didn't mind. They wouldn't even let us PAY extra for the ones she ate because they said it was part of the "experience" of strawberry picking. I don't know where you are at, but we go to Hilltop Farms (http://www.hilltopfarms.org/default.asp) - it's a drive for us, but worth EVERY moment!! They are a great organic, CSA that opens it's fields up to the public for strawberry picking. We picked almost 50# of strawberries and they lasted us for most of the year! I hope you get to go!

 

[dutchbunny83]

I know you didn't ask me, but I thought I would share since we too go strawberry picking and LOVE the farm we go to. They let my daughter last year (she was just shy of 2 at the time) pick with us (even gave her a "take home" bucket) and while she ate more than she picked, they didn't mind. They wouldn't even let us PAY extra for the ones she ate because they said it was part of the "experience" of strawberry picking. I don't know where you are at, but we go to Hilltop Farms (http://www.hilltopfarms.org/default.asp) - it's a drive for us, but worth EVERY moment!! They are a great organic, CSA that opens it's fields up to the public for strawberry picking. We picked almost 50# of strawberries and they lasted us for most of the year! I hope you get to go!

Okay I will have to look them up, thanks so much!!!

Yes.. they do need to be dewormed. You will need to google that for dosage and type of dewormer. I will not say on here what I have done.

I am sure I will get slammed.

Haha okay thanks for the tip. I'll look on here for what to use for bunnies in the other animal category.

 

[2Sesslers]

Hello to my fellow North Carolinians! I am new to raising a backyard flock, new to BYC and {fairly} new to NC! What an exciting time. We are in Wayne County.

 

[BHep]

Hello to my fellow North Carolinians! I am new to raising a backyard flock, new to BYC and {fairly} new to NC! What an exciting time. We are in Wayne County.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Okay thanks!
Up until now I was only buying vaccinated day old chicks from certified hatcheries, and then keeping them in the brooder for at least 4 weeks before putting them in their own coop/run.
I was tempted by already laying hens and didn't know anything about quarantine or adding new birds to the flock.
Live and learn I guess.  Hoping for the best from this experience.

BY THE WAY...
Anyone know about deworming other animals?  I have 2 lionhead bunnies that we let free range the backyard with the chickens and a cat.  All have separate food and water dishes, but they all like one in particular so they all use it.  My bunnies even stopped eating their rabbit pellets all together, they just eat the chicken crumbles right out of the chicken feeder, guess it tastes better.  They eat grass all day long, so I wasn't too worried about it.  But now I'm thinking if worm eggs are just randomly in the ground, and the other chickens had evidence of worms, should I deworm the bunnies and cat???

Anything that free-ranges should be checked for worms, but your cats and rabbits and chickens will not have the same worms. Internal parasites are, for the most part, species specific. But, your rabbits will have rabbit worms, your chickens will have chicken worms, and the cat will have cat worms, so do them all!