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[pawprnts88]

Stupid question of the day: Can someone please tell me more about this NPIP tester certification thing?

I know the basics of the poulty improvement deal just not about the class or being a tester... that sort of thing.

 

[TJ's Na-Na]

Cleochick - Come on.....LOL This bunch....well Pa-Pa anyway....
has delivered just about every kind of critter there is....and
still says he wants to do a "real" baby before it's over. Hey,
bet you'd get the 2/1 discount.......

Have a good one !

 

[TJ's Na-Na]

P&B - The Flemith Giants -

P&B - OK.....You "must" breed them "before" they are 9 months
old, or it probably ain't gonna happen. (That's the fat layer
around the ovary deal.) You have to keep your stock "lean"
until they are ready to nurse, then increase their feed until
weaning. Then shut them down again. We're talking about
no more than a small babyfood jar of feed per day for any "open"
stock.

This is coming "second hand" from a friend, whose brother raised
show rabbits in Kansas. So, check it out further.

No wonder we didn't have any luck around here.

Good luck.

 

[HennyPennies2007]

Well I was at one of my mowing jobs... i tripped over the vent for the guy's fraidy hole and went straight down onto the cement pad.... I jacked up a wrist and an elbow pretty good....yee-haw....I'm to old for that happy crappy....

 

[poultryand bees]

TJ's Na-Na :

P&B - The Flemith Giants -

P&B - OK.....You "must" breed them "before" they are 9 months
old, or it probably ain't gonna happen. (That's the fat layer
around the ovary deal.) You have to keep your stock "lean"
until they are ready to nurse, then increase their feed until
weaning. Then shut them down again. We're talking about
no more than a small babyfood jar of feed per day for any "open"
stock.

This is coming "second hand" from a friend, whose brother raised
show rabbits in Kansas. So, check it out further.

No wonder we didn't have any luck around here.

Good luck.

This cranky doe had two litters before I bought her, but she has gotten fat in the past year. I have been putting apple cider vinegar in her water for a month now and will give her just that acv water and hay for a few days before I try to breed her this weekend.

Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[poultryand bees]

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Henny - sorry you hurt yourself. Hope your wrist and elbow are only bruised and scraped and not sprained or fractured.

 

[HennyPennies2007]

nah... I'm just beat up and humiliated... what a dork.... the neighbors kid was out there... he's like 5... his eyes were as big as plates! He was like are you OK? Then he started showing me all his recent "boo-boos" from when he fell down. He was sweet....

 

[poultryand bees]

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There are no "stupid questions" in this group - but sometimes you have to go back hundreds of pages to find out how the discussion began

The NPIP tester certification is for those who want to be able to test their own birds so that it is easier for them to maintain a NPIP certified flock. Basically, testing is done for pullorom and if the test is negative, the flock can be a NPIP certified flock. The test consists of pricking a vein on the inside of the wing to obtain a drop of blood, which is then mixed with an antigen that "reacts" if the bird is positive for pullorum. Birds must be at least 4 months old to be tested.

Once you have taken the training, you will have to buy the antigen from the Department of Agriculture (they have rules against selling antigen in Oklahoma to anyone who isn't a certified tester, so most poultry places that sell the antigen have a footnote that they can't ship it to Oklahoma) and then anytime you test a bird, you fill out a form and give a copy to the bird's owner and a copy to ???? (help me out here, Les)

The forms to fill out when you test a bird are free, but you have to buy the antigen.

If you want to maintain a NPIP flock and buy birds at auctions, it will be handy to be a NPIP tester so that you don't have to quarantine that bird until it can be tested (you will still want to follow best practices for bio-security and quarantine the bird for several weeks regardless of the NPIP test so that you don't bring in respiratory or mite problems to your flock)

Cost for the class and your 3 year certification is $35 - see my signature line for the number to call to sign up for the class

 

[HennyPennies2007]

Hey experts...have a question...? I have found an interesting thing about that hen I culled. Could it have had laying issues that progressed to an infection of some sort? I have not had a shelless egg since I culled it... and I was getting a lot of them. Maybe it was messed up inside somehow? If that was it...like internal laying or maybe the shells were not getting laid... could I have fixed it somehow?

 

[Greybear23]

Well folks, like my old freiend Uel (SP?) Gibbons used to say, "Some parts are eatable"t to eat any native dishes!!!

Of course if any of you are as young as my wife, you probably don't know who UG is!!!!

Lynn