Okies in the BYC The Original

[Jer-man]

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ahh congrats

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I wanted to say "Thank You, you're sweet". But I couldn't convince myself that something wasn't going to pop out from behind the flowers.

 

[Sooner]

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Good to have you, jump in & have some fun, we talk about anything & everything plus chickens! What kind do you have?

 

[Sooner]

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It is actually a table that my sister got me for my birthday! I love it & can't wait to use it in my new house. Although it is almost to pretty to put anything on! If you want better pic's I will be glad to upload them.

I would love to have a bigger picture, if you don't mind! It looks sooo pretty!

I have it on my computer at work, I will get it to you sometime tomorrow, if I forget just remind me!!

 

[Sooner]

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So where are you planning to pull them to?

You know in most states it is illegal to relocate predators! LOL

Good Job, NN!

 

[MMPoultryFarms]

Got new reports from the state Doctor he says there is bleeding in the treachia or how ever you say it. So now I aise the question Could that be from the way they were killed? there heads and neck were stepped on and grabbed by there feet and pulled till they quit moving? from that alone wouldnt there be enough damage to that to show signs of bleeding? Anyhow just wanted to say tomorrow there sending the doc himself and vickie toswab the farm he is gonna drive the speciments to still water to make sureits not AI. However its the same set of birds that vickie tested for AI and her tests came back clean. the other is newcastle and by the symptoms he says he doubts its newcastle. there leaning on Laryngotracheitis. I have spent 8 months of what I though was taking serious bio security measures. in a few cases I probably wasnt as good as I should have been since I got alo0t of birds from BYC'ers who are NPIP. I know it started from the birds from the auction. (the Plymouth White rocks x2 that were really cornish X Rocks.)
Only 2 farms in the state of Oklahoma have been eradicated since NPIP Programs started so if I make the 3rd Just want you all to know I am gonna call it good and throw in the towel. We spent every last dime we didnt have to build this farm We started with day old chicks we reached numbers of 300+ birds before culls Got our breed programs down to 34 birds and our layers down to 101 birds. I recently bought out atwoods so add another 70 chicks to that hatched 14 so thats eradicating 185 birds. Perhaps I am jumping the gun Perhaps I am over stressing myself but this makes state people on my property 4 days in a row. And Obviously there keeping something from me.
If it goes for bad I will still hang around byc. But obviously I have no business raising chickens if my methods of keeping them safe and disease free arent good enough. ttyl I got to take a few breaths and try to stop stressing.

 

[poultryand bees]

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You have found a wonderful group of folks who either live in Oklahoma or wish they live in Oklahoma. Some of us are addicted to hatching eggs, attending poultry auctions and acquiring poultry and since addicts tend to be "enablers" we would love to assist you in acquiring some of the same addictions

So, what kind of poultry do you have and what would you like to acquire?

 

[Kwartel]

Went out to walk around the property and stopped by the spot where I had dumped a bag of moldy scratch grain a few months ago. With the recent rains, I now have a small corn patch about waist high. I doubt I will see ears before it freezes and dies, but I thought it was funny since all the corn I deliberately planted in my garden got about 12" tall and then died.

I put about two dozen chicken eggs in the incubator today. I'm hopeful that I will actually hatch something out of them. I know they are fertile, so I just have to adjust out of the quail hatching mode. Chickens can't be too much harder... I hope.

 

[Buster52]

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Woe, dude! Don't get carried away here. You seem to have traced the problem to the culprits, so in the future just watch it with the auction thing.

Besides, nothing is done yet and they haven't shut you down. Just stick it out and see what happens. And in the future, only get your birds from hatcheries and people you trust.

At the very least you should continue the meat bird project. Order them in, raise them to butchering weight, then you're done with that batch.

With the dearth of non-factory farm raised meat bird opportunities for the public out there, we need all the people like you we can get.

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

M&M I guess I missed some post,why are you getting inspected by the state and what caused them to pick you?Sure hope they don't make you get out of the poultry,that would be rough!Hope the test come back okay.

 

[nnbreeder]

Matt the only true bio-secure flocks on this earth are held by pharacutical companies. There are NO other bio-secure flock out there, at all, period.

To be truly bio-secure all aspects of the bird's enviroment must be controlled, even the air that they breathe.

Yes I agree you did what you could do and I think that putting the broiler operation into the barn would be a great step in the right direction. And you have help whenever you need it.

It looks to me like the birds would have been euthanized using some other method then that used. Were vials of blood drawn before hand?