NY chicken lover!!!!

[Lynzi777]

The new issure of PP mag has an article on Mareks. Interesting enough your birds can still get it even if vaccinated.

There is much more but I will mention the highlights later, when I've finished with it.

Is that kind of like people getting the flu shot and then getting the flu?

 

[Lynzi777]

I've been stapling up some wind blocker feed bags myself.. let's hope it helps with the cold spell coming up!!

Pyxis, sorry about your chick =( I had one single chick this year too - thankfully that one was under a broody. Turned out to be a boy, naturally. A very pretty boy - the twin of his daddy.

I usually hatch NYD but too busy this year and no interesting eggs. I want more NN and easter eggers for my spring hatch this year. Just need to find one of you with eggs close enough to pick up and we're all set!! =)

The woman I got the EE chicks from is closer to you I think than she is to me. I believe she sells hatching eggs as well.

Scratch that, she's 2hrs from Saratoga, 45 mins from me. Sorry about that.

 

[why do birds]

The new issure of PP mag has an article on Mareks. Interesting enough your birds can still get it even if vaccinated.

There is much more but I will mention the highlights later, when I've finished with it.

I read somewhere that if you have a turkey it passes a nonvirulent strain of Marek's to chickens.
I just don't see our little angels ever living outside, no TV out there for them to watch. We don't have Marek's that I know of, inside the house, so we're hoping they're safe! Maybe someday we'll get a turkey for our Silkie to play with. What do you think?

 

[Pyxis]

The new issure of PP mag has an article on Mareks.  Interesting enough your birds can still get it even if vaccinated. 

There is much more but I will mention the highlights later, when I've finished with it. 

Yep - they use a virus that turkeys carry to do the vaccine. It's similar enough to marek's that it gives resistance to the disease, but chickens can still get real marek's and they'll just have no symptoms.

 

[featherz]

Yep - they use a virus that turkeys carry to do the vaccine. It's similar enough to marek's that it gives resistance to the disease, but chickens can still get real marek's and they'll just have no symptoms.

Yup was just about to post the same. Chickens will still get marek's if vaccinated, you just won't know it.

 

[Pyxis]

I've been stapling up some wind blocker feed bags myself.. let's hope it helps with the cold spell coming up!! 

Pyxis, sorry about your chick =(   I had one single chick this year too - thankfully that one was under a broody. Turned out to be a boy, naturally. A very pretty boy - the twin of his daddy. 

I usually hatch NYD but too busy this year and no interesting eggs. I want more NN and  easter eggers for my spring hatch this year. Just need to find one of you with eggs close enough to pick up and we're all set!! =)

She's doing okay with her little stuffed flamingo for now. Still in the incubator actually - have to get the brooder all set up and I'm trying to keep her inside as long as possible before putting her out in the workshop because she has no one to snuggle with yet. The person who I'm getting chicks from just offered me six free - seems they're overrun All ameraucanas apparently so why not?

I'll have EE eggs once my lazy birds quit lollygagging, so I'll have some when you're ready.

 

[Gramma Chick]

In other chicken related news, I put up a tarp to block the wind on the north wall of the chicken fence, I put up some feed bags inside the coop to try to stop drafts, I bought a flock block and picked up a heated water bucket normally intended for horses and dogs. Hopefully this will stay thawed, I'm having a lot of trouble keeping water in a liquid state. I put the bucket four feet away from the coop (in case of fire) and ran the cord along the fence about five feet off the ground and when I can find some more wood and cinder blocks to position around the bucket for ease of drinking I can move the on it's side garden chair. I put a thin cinder block on top of the bucket to make the opening smaller so that the chickens can't sit on the bucket and fall in. Chicks might, but I don't have any chickens small enough.

I have a few girls experiencing frostbite on their combs. I spent part of today one hand covered in bag balm one hand pinning a chicken to my chest trying to coat their combs to save the rest of the large floppy combs and long spikes. My humidity gauge in the coop says 16% during the day unless it's raining/snow melting, then it goes as high as 86% during the day. The eaves on the coop are open on the south side, I don't know what else I can do to prevent more frostbite damage. I'm scooping out as much poop as I can. Sometimes it's hard because it's already frozen to the boards and I have to wait for a thaw to get that stuff and I take what I can get. Any thoughts?

It sounds to me like your coop isnt venting the moisture .
Can you open it up during the day to let the moisture out ?
or is there a opening on 2 different sides of your coop ?
if the air has a opening on ONLY one side it wont vent ..the air stays in the coop as it has no where to go

My Roo got frostbite last year because the coop was too air tight ..& I closed them all in
the moisture couldnt escape ..he lost his points on his comb
I think your coop may be too air tight
Im not sure the poop is the problem ..It is more likely their breath as they breathe
I hope this helps ..

http://naturalchickenkeeping.blogsp...showComment=1386509634871#c679141309028396766

I Scored Some new chicken dishes At Walmart .49 each ..got some for popcorn too ! theirs are Red mine are Blue !


Perfect for my fermented feed as long as they are in a base ...chickens sometimes like to roost on them if they arent

made from left over 2 x 4 s

JLAW - Loved the free nails ....must take boards

ke5hde - those chicks dots/ tots are so cute ! Congrats

TAB - sounds like your ducks have been infected with the chicken pecking order virus

Rancher - It sounds like you should be able to make those resolutions
I didnt make any At all ..just try to do the best I can in each day
EVERYONE - I hope everyone had a great New Year ..and I wish the best for everyone in the remainder of it

Deborah

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

My resolutions seem to be the same every year. I try to talk more to my relitives that I don't talk to that much. Like my Grandpa. I used to talk to my grandma at least twice a week and after she passed I don't talk to my grandpa that much. He doens't like to talk on the phone. Last year I said that I was going to reconnect with one family member from my dad's side (long story) and I did with 2 of them.


I also have a resolution to convine dh that I need more birds. I want to get some girlfriends for my ducks, and I think that I need to get some bantams. Try to find some egg customers so I can make some money to help with their expenses.

On a diffrent note...Has anyone ever ate a silkie? I know that they have black meat. Just wondering how weird it was?

 

[Lynzi777]

My resolutions seem to be the same every year. I try to talk more to my relitives that I don't talk to that much. Like my Grandpa. I used to talk to my grandma at least twice a week and after she passed I don't talk to my grandpa that much. He doens't like to talk on the phone. Last year I said that I was going to reconnect with one family member from my dad's side (long story) and I did with 2 of them.


I also have a resolution to convine dh that I need more birds. I want to get some girlfriends for my ducks, and I think that I need to get some bantams. Try to find some egg customers so I can make some money to help with their expenses.

On a diffrent note...Has anyone ever ate a silkie? I know that they have black meat. Just wondering how weird it was?

I contemplated eating one of my cockerels but I ended up finding him a home. I know my husband would love to try one.

 

[JLaw]

You really should warn a person before posting these things. Good thing I haven't had my dinner yet. Where do you put the batteries that thing ?

God must have made them with left over parts.

Nope god made silkies then he took 1 toe off each foot and then made other chickens so they could have subjects to rule over.