Okies in the BYC The Original

[quenston]

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Me personally I usually dont buy at auctions just individuals, but if I am interested in some birds I will find the owner and find out if they are NPIP certified, I know you cant always take peoples words but you can usually tell if they are or not when you say NPIP they either know what it is or they will say huh?? Just my 2 cents worth!

 

[Jer-man]

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How 'bout plastic cat litter buckets? They are about 2 gallon sized, and I have a bunch of them I can give you (4-5) because I am a pack rat and keep all kinds of stuff "just in case." Of course, I'm still catching up and you probably solved this days ago....

Beth...the problem is I haven't been able to locate any kind of pan to fit under the bucket to hold the feed as it comes down. I've looked everywhere.

Did you try an Auto Parts store. Some have a black plastic, oil drain pan that works great with the smaller buckets. They are deep, to keep the chickens from scratching the feed out.

 

[luv2bmemaw2]

Jer-man...I tried 2 auto stores...no help...the only pans that I could find were 13 gallon size that work wonderful with the 5 gal buckets. Al says he just used the 5 gal buckets...so that's what I'm making. Got things strung out over my living room. LOL

 

[poultryand bees]

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If you get your flock NPIP certified, you will want to find someone close to you who is a certified NPIP tester (there are several of us who took the class last year in June and it is offered each June - also nnbreeder was already a certified tester) so they can test any new birds you get at an auction. You want to quarantine anything you get at an auction or even from one of us for a few weeks in any event, so that gives you time to get them tested before you integrate the new birds into your flock.

Like Quenston said, if you get individual birds tested, you will be paying whatever price you can work out with the tester since the tester has to buy the testing supplies and gas to get to you. If you are going to keep a NPIP flock, you will probably want to either take the NPIP tester certification class/test so that you can test your own birds, only buy birds that you know to be NPIP tested (like if you buy them from the sale room at a show) or become friends with a certified NPIP tester

The Department of Ag doesn't come out to test birds more than once a year.... unless you have a positive result on the initial test.

 

[bigokie37]

i made some feeders an just made the bottoms from wood.just take a piece of plywood alittle bigger then the bucket an put a 1 x 4 frame around the edge..you can just make them to what ever size your bucket is.
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I am using the 1 gal plastic water & haven't had any trouble but thought if I did I would just put that foamy shelf lining stuff between them. You are using buckets of water?

In some of the pens we use the 2 gal. white buckets with handles cause we already had them. Those dumb roos like sit on them and smart off at the other roos...LOL In the other pens we are using those small rubber water bowls. They stay pretty well. Part of the problem is the snow is so hard we can't get them as level as they should be and if the chickens get excited about feeding time the knock them off the heater. Just some little problems to work out.

 

[luv2bmemaw2]

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If you get your flock NPIP certified, you will want to find someone close to you who is a certified NPIP tester (there are several of us who took the class last year in June and it is offered each June - also nnbreeder was already a certified tester) so they can test any new birds you get at an auction. You want to quarantine anything you get at an auction or even from one of us for a few weeks in any event, so that gives you time to get them tested before you integrate the new birds into your flock.

Like Quenston said, if you get individual birds tested, you will be paying whatever price you can work out with the tester since the tester has to buy the testing supplies and gas to get to you. If you are going to keep a NPIP flock, you will probably want to either take the NPIP tester certification class/test so that you can test your own birds, only buy birds that you know to be NPIP tested (like if you buy them from the sale room at a show) or become friends with a certified NPIP tester

The Department of Ag doesn't come out to test birds more than once a year.... unless you have a positive result on the initial test.

Ok Marybeth...this makes more sense. We don't have many BYC folks around here and I thought what a mess. I guess I need to plan on going through the class. Thanks for explaining it.

Folks...got to get ready for tomorrow. Have been out of school for 18 days so I need to be prepared for the little darlings...they will be wild. Nite

 

[poultryand bees]

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That would be the same concept as a cardboard box, but much sturdier. That is what I call "thinking outside the round pan"

 

[osukrazykate]

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From the pics posted it looked like Poco Polo had some EE roos available. And I believe one of them was white, although I do remember in one of the pics there was one in the background with some fluffy cheeks/beard.

 

[artsyrobin]

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Thanks city- miss donna is my head girl and nobody mess with her roost! thank you very much!- ornery gal... she definitly was peeved at me... now if there was a market for chicken art i'd be doin great! haven't seen much in chicken art, so am doing the other things like parrots and such

i hate to see roos done away with unless they are mean....still wish that one of mine had mellowed, but that brahma of mine is a sweetheart- i occasionally pet him, but make sure i'm not getting too friendly, hope that works with him

 

[michaeldaugherty]

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They come an test most of the birds at the sale. An lots of peple in the state are licsense to test birds you can call thim an they can give you a list of peplo wer you live that are testers. An they have class"s you can take so you can do it your self. A one day corse its lots of fun an they teach you alot about birds..