Hello to all of you .
As a side observer I want , if I may , to note you an Important note . All of You instead of Union forces against this dreaded disease. each one of you fight alone his fight instead of fighting it together . As stated before there are over 300000 members of this community and this is a tremendous resource of knowledge that you do not use !
If I was found in your situation , I would conducted a very extended poll, using BYC as a platform, among all the forum members that their chickens were infected in by MD . In the survey I would ask them to provide this information: Their location in USA, the breed of the sick chicken , the sex of a chicken , its age , and where it has been purchased ( if it is a hatchery , I would ask the name of the hatchery ) , and what happened at the end with the sick hen . After the gathering of this information from a substantial number of backyard's you could analyses it and could gather a much valuable information that you could share with the outer forum member.
You could larne if there are breeds that are more Vulnerable than others to MD, if there are areas in the US that are mor prone to the disease, if you find such areas you could search if there is a correlation to a specific climate. But the most important is that you could discover if there are hatcherys that you should not buy from them.
The next step that i would drive for is to establish ,with the help of growers that have the facility and the will, and with moony I would asks from the BYC members that want to participate in this Enterprise, breeding flock that all they do is to select for MD resistance without the use of vaccination! which the final goal should be to achieve flocs of resistend chicken, chicken from the most common breeds,that can produce eggs and chicks sold in a fair price to The members that participated in the project first and the to other BYC members after.
If I was living in the USA that I would try to do! If you will start with this I could help you,if you will need my help, with the statistical analysis of the data. even the obvious fact That you all can see from my grammar and spelling mistakes that, English is not my native language! (Although i can speak well 3 language and Fairly well another 2!) and I find it quite difficult to write all this post ( I would ilike to see if you can writ one post in Hebrew! )
As a side observer I want , if I may , to note you an Important note . All of You instead of Union forces against this dreaded disease. each one of you fight alone his fight instead of fighting it together . As stated before there are over 300000 members of this community and this is a tremendous resource of knowledge that you do not use !
If I was found in your situation , I would conducted a very extended poll, using BYC as a platform, among all the forum members that their chickens were infected in by MD . In the survey I would ask them to provide this information: Their location in USA, the breed of the sick chicken , the sex of a chicken , its age , and where it has been purchased ( if it is a hatchery , I would ask the name of the hatchery ) , and what happened at the end with the sick hen . After the gathering of this information from a substantial number of backyard's you could analyses it and could gather a much valuable information that you could share with the outer forum member.
You could larne if there are breeds that are more Vulnerable than others to MD, if there are areas in the US that are mor prone to the disease, if you find such areas you could search if there is a correlation to a specific climate. But the most important is that you could discover if there are hatcherys that you should not buy from them.
The next step that i would drive for is to establish ,with the help of growers that have the facility and the will, and with moony I would asks from the BYC members that want to participate in this Enterprise, breeding flock that all they do is to select for MD resistance without the use of vaccination! which the final goal should be to achieve flocs of resistend chicken, chicken from the most common breeds,that can produce eggs and chicks sold in a fair price to The members that participated in the project first and the to other BYC members after.
If I was living in the USA that I would try to do! If you will start with this I could help you,if you will need my help, with the statistical analysis of the data. even the obvious fact That you all can see from my grammar and spelling mistakes that, English is not my native language! (Although i can speak well 3 language and Fairly well another 2!) and I find it quite difficult to write all this post ( I would ilike to see if you can writ one post in Hebrew! )
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