NY chicken lover!!!!

[cutipatooti]

I had 4 hens and 2 roosters of the 55 Flowering breed in my cart but I just never pulled the trigger.... Sigh, soon.

Glad to see someone else is interested in the breed. Maybe whoever gets them first can sell eggs or chicks to the other. Shouldn't take to long for them to start laying.

 

[FishMtFarm]

Oh I just bought a partridge hen and rooster from her! The photos absolutely don't do them any justice. The rooster in person is gorgeous! I love her birds.

 

[Devona]

Hi everyone! Happy new year! I hope everyone's doing well. Pyxis, I hope your new chickens are disease free, and everything works out for you and them. They are good looking birds, though it seems that a swipe of those long claws could put someone's eyes out! I don't know how people could be so cruel. Welcome to the newcomers. I am currently wading through the last of my eight-year-old's homework. It appears he has inherited my procrastinating genes.

I sent my husband out earlier to give the chickens their dinner and pick up eggs, and he returned saying they are on strike.

First eggless day since I've begun keeping chickens almost a year ago

 

[PhoredaBurds]

You will probably take some Spitz or are they related to yours ?

If she can't find a place for them, I'll take the spitz & cemanis. She got them from me in 2015. But I'm at winter capacity right now & not sure where I'd put them.

 

[cutipatooti]

Oh I just bought a partridge hen and rooster from her! The photos absolutely don't do them any justice. The rooster in person is gorgeous! I love her birds.

I'm so glad someone else some of her silkies. Hoping mine grow up as beautiful as yours.

 

[Amy King Hanson]

Glad to see someone else is interested in the breed. Maybe whoever gets them first can sell eggs or chicks to the other. Shouldn't take to long for them to start laying.

I just found out about them!

I have auto sexing and Sexlinked hatching eggs for blue, green, Olive, brown and possibly mint laying hens. I've been wanting to add white, lol.

 

[Pyxis]

I was so hoping to have my 55 flowery hens by now but have not been able to afford them:

Maybe in a few weeks. I wanted to bring any extra to the chickenstock but I guess that won't be happening. I do have group of silkies chicks now. 5 blue cream in the mix. Hoping for at least 1 good boy and 1 good girl. The boys are loving them.

I've got eggs coming in soon from these guys. They probably won't be laying by Chickenstock but if they are would you want eggs or chicks?

 

[horsekeeper]

I have a question. For those of you who are PNIP tested, do you also get MG tested?

I just learned of the disease 2 weeks ago when it hit an acquaintance's flock. Now I started reading about the major biosecurity one should be taking. I have asked around in big time breeder Facebook groups and found most say is everywhere and you can't keep it out. I looked into the vaccine but then found that it'll make your flock a false positive.

I'm about to mail in my PNIP test request and am curious if others have opted to be MG tested too.

I brought it home from a swap The bantam cochins I got looked healthy and were quarantined for a month. When I put them out with the rest of the flock, everyone, including the turkeys got sick. So did the young ones I had inside in the brooders. There was quite a lot of chatter on the swap's Facebook page as several buyers had the same thing happen. I did a lot of research and talked to others familiar with the disease and used Denagard (a swine medication) to wipe it out of my flock. Often you don't know your flock has it because they don't appear sick, but there is decreased egg laying and loss of appetite so your birds look a bit scrawny. You also have poor hatch rates and often the chicks die before they are two weeks old. One of the ways you can tell it is eradicated is that fertility of the eggs is way up and the chicks are vigorous and grow well.

There are estimates that 80-90% of backyard flocks are infected. Like someone else stated, wild birds carry it. So there is no cause to obsess Keep an eye (and ear) out for sniffling, sneezing and gurgling and treat right away. What I had was a very virulent strain and I saved all my birds. If you search this site for denagard and MG there is a wealth of information. The turkeys were especially bad because they have such small heads and sinuses. After the first dose of denagard they looked better by the next day and all pulled through. The only aftereffect was some swelling in the face that took about a year to go away. It isn't approved for poultry in the US, but is used in most of the rest of the world. Good stuff, and has no withdrawal period because it is not a med taken by humans. It goes in their water and is easy to administer, you just have to keep it away from waterfowl because they drink so much water they OD (I lost a duck hen that way).

 

[Amy King Hanson]

@horsekeeper sorry to hear that. It's very stressful to watch that happen to your flock. That's what my friend was going through, but she didn't know what was going on. That's when I started searching for answers. After researching I sent her links from Backyard Chickens about Denegrard. I just messaged her today and what birds didn't die are now on the mend. The sets of winter is what triggered it in her flock.

 

[cutipatooti]

I've got eggs coming in soon from these guys. They probably won't be laying by Chickenstock but if they are would you want eggs or chicks?

I would be interested for sure. That is if I don't bite the bullet and get them myself. Also may want some of the WH babies or eggs.