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[Sally Sunshine]

http://extension.unh.edu/resources/files/Resource000791_Rep813.pdf

Transmission
Marek’s is highly contagious and spreads by bird-to-bird contact, by contact with infected dust and dander, and by darkling beetles and mealworms that live in the chicken house, although the virus has no affect on the beetles or mealworms.

Meal Worms may carry Mareks disease and a bunch of other unwanted guests, (still trying to figure out mealworm types, not an easy lookup)
Chickens can also be exposed to Mareks virus by direct contact with ill or carrier chickens - which includes almost all chickens. Wild pheasant, quail and turkeys can pass the disease to free range chickens. One other route of infection is through meal worms, (which many small flock owners feed) and the darkling beetles that are the adult mealworm form. The mealworms do not become sick from Mareks.http://www.examiner.com/article/how-to-prevent-losses-from-mareks-disease-michigans-small-chicken-flocks


Darkling beetles or lesser mealworms (Alphitobius diaperinus)Disease transmission
Darkling beetles are known vectors and reservoirs for a number of serious poultry disease agents
(leucosis, Marek’s disease, infectious bursal disease, reovirus, enterovirus, fowl pox and Newcastle
disease) and can act as intermediate hosts for caecal nematodes, tapeworms and protozoa. In addition,
they can transmit a number of food-borne diseases such as Escherichia coli andSalmonella typhimurium,
and have been recently implicated in the transmission of Campylobacter.http://www.poultryhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Darkling_Beetles_web.pd

 

[My peeps]

Hello everyone, CrazyRays from Pittsburgh here.

I haven't posted in a long while. I just wanted to say hello and let you know I am still raising chickens for fresh eggs. I am still getting some days as high as 15 eggs out of 19 layers. Yesterday was just 10.

I've had one loss to predation, one loss to respiratory illness, gotten rid of excess roosters and even eaten a few. My flock stands at 23 total. 8 Barred rock-1 rooster, 7 RIR-1 rooster, 5 Golden Laced Wyandotte- 1 rooster, 2 auracana-1 rooster and 1 single Astrolarp hen.

I was down to just 18 chickens, but on one day I went to 23 chickens, two friends opted out of raising chickens and asked me to take them. I already had the room in my coop and run. That was when I got my green egg layer in the mix. Makes for a great mix of colors in both my flock and my eggs.

I love raising my flock and learned a lot from you guys here on BYC. I have given away all my excess eggs to friends, neighbors and family. It makes me feel good about it. Thanks all.

Yay!! Another Pittsburger!!

I am considering, for the first time in the 7 years I have had chickens, keeping the girls locked in their coops all day tomorrow. I have large coops, but need to find something to keep them busy so they don't start picking on each other.

Same here. They were out today but I'm thinking of keeping them in tomorrow.

Ok, with all the crazy crap going on yesterday I'm not sure how many pages I just skipped. We got all of the animals out except 1 banty hen who escaped & we couldn't catch & my son's cat who came up missing the night before. Thinking a coyote got him before we got home that night. We had been letting them in at dusk but were late getting back.

A friend came with her 4wd & we got 2 of my big cages out to storage. I still have a bunch of fencing, 2 cages we couldn't get & my big outdoor brooder sitting there. Hopefully we can get back out there soon to get them without them causing more trouble. We got the camper & freezer out but got the camper jack knifed in the new driveway when we slid backwards down the hill. I almost went in the creek more than once. We tried calling a tow truck. No one available because of the weather. At almost midnight the neighbor above us on the lane managed to get it unstuck & the neighbor 2 doors below us let us park the camper in his extra driveway.

All animals spent the night in the garage in their cages. JJ has made several trips back to the camper unloading stuff & bringing it up the hill. Now the trick is hurrying to get a pen set up for the animals so I can get them out of the cages to get food & water to them. This shall be fun in the cold, but at least we are all here.

I've missed a lot of posts. Did you know the guy who was threatening you? Crazy!! Glad you are out of there. I hope the house is ready and heated for you to be there with this crazy weather.

i recently bouught a bread machine and am completely into it making a loaf a day giving 1/2 away when need be so that i can make another one! is there any known cure for this!!!!!

I love my bread machine. I usually use the dough cycle and bake in the oven.

I was just looking at chicks on Cackle. I sooooo want to order something with fuzzy feet and poofie butts. Cochins and Brahmas etc. I am determined to wait till warmer weather when we get the run extended and the garden worked out though. I WILL have some will power. I WILL NOT cave and order chicks. Though that box of peeping fluffy cuteness is so irresistible ^_^

Same here. I was on the other day making my wish list and I almost pre ordered for the Spring.

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

okay...so they have it "in" them, as in a part of them...not just a "host" like carrier....and the beetles..well, that decided that one. I think with the natural bugs and such in their yard run they ar e good..and the extra protein we give them. HUh...just though maybe it would be cool to "grow" some bugs..hahhaa...I will look a bit into the 'freeze dried' ones...don't know that i would bother with them if i had to do that too...just out of curiosity...i still have 6 lives sooo..

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***Have been reading the D-Incu. thread..lots of info. there, makes my brain go---------...hahhaha..i have gone back & forth on that thing many times....
Thank you for the time/info. Sally.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: LOL your welcome it does make you go lal la la lal a at times! Alot of smart people on that thread, great to have nurses doctors vets and so on. Nice to have prof input in conversations and most times I just sit back, read and learn from them. I cant wait until oz comes back home and has time online, I found some really strange clinical studies I would love if he read and had some input. He is a busy man though!

 

[barbiegirl]

Be careful out there tonight. I seen this warning on facebook for ,most of Pennsylvania, forecast wind chills are expected to be between 20 and 30 degrees below zero.. Buuuurrrrr is all I can say. My son's school has been cancelled tomorrow due to the cold.

 

[chippysmom327]

Be careful out there tonight. I seen this warning on facebook for ,most of Pennsylvania, forecast wind chills are expected to be between 20 and 30 degrees below zero.. Buuuurrrrr is all I can say. My son's school has been cancelled tomorrow due to the cold.

My school was cancelled too!

 

[Rnbwbrite1207]

My husband called on his way to work because he was at a stop light and saw a transformer blow! This area is just not equipped for this kind of cold.

 

[SilkieSensation]

Hello everyone, CrazyRays from Pittsburgh here. I haven't posted in a long while. I just wanted to say hello and let you know I am still raising chickens for fresh eggs. I am still getting some days as high as 15 eggs out of 19 layers. Yesterday was just 10. I've had one loss to predation, one loss to respiratory illness, gotten rid of excess roosters and even eaten a few. My flock stands at 23 total. 8 Barred rock-1 rooster, 7 RIR-1 rooster, 5 Golden Laced Wyandotte- 1 rooster, 2 auracana-1 rooster and 1 single Astrolarp hen. I was down to just 18 chickens, but on one day I went to 23 chickens, two friends opted out of raising chickens and asked me to take them. I already had the room in my coop and run. That was when I got my green egg layer in the mix. Makes for a great mix of colors in both my flock and my eggs. I love raising my flock and learned a lot from you guys here on BYC. I have given away all my excess eggs to friends, neighbors and family. It makes me feel good about it. Thanks all.

Yay!! Another Pittsburger!!

I am considering, for the first time in the 7 years I have had chickens, keeping the girls locked in their coops all day tomorrow. I have large coops, but need to find something to keep them busy so they don't start picking on each other.

Same here. They were out today but I'm thinking of keeping them in tomorrow. I've missed a lot of posts. Did you know the guy who was threatening you? Crazy!! Glad you are out of there. I hope the house is ready and heated for you to be there with this crazy weather.

i recently bouught a bread machine and am completely into it making a loaf a day giving 1/2 away when need be so that i can make another one! is there any known cure for this!!!!!

I love my bread machine. I usually use the dough cycle and bake in the oven.

I was just looking at chicks on Cackle. I sooooo want to order something with fuzzy feet and poofie butts. Cochins and Brahmas etc. I am determined to wait till warmer weather when we get the run extended and the garden worked out though. I WILL have some will power. I WILL NOT cave and order chicks. Though that box of peeping fluffy cuteness is so irresistible ^_^

Same here. I was on the other day making my wish list and I almost pre ordered for the Spring.

I want a bread machine! Yummy! Yes, I know the man who threatened me. He's my daughter's friend's uncle & invited us to stay on his property in our camper. He even hauled the camper for us. Once we got out there all promises went out the window. Long story short, he tried to tell me he was keeping my camper. When I told him that was NOT gonna happen he threatened to choke me to death & I filed charges. I hate crazy people & people who take advantage of others. I'm the nicest person in the world until you give me reason not to be.

Be careful out there tonight. I seen this warning on facebook for ,most of Pennsylvania, forecast wind chills are expected to be between 20 and 30 degrees below zero.. Buuuurrrrr is all I can say. My son's school has been cancelled tomorrow due to the cold.

My school was cancelled too!

My kids are cancelled today & tomorrow both at the new AND the old school.

 

[msladyhawke]

My husband called on his way to work because he was at a stop light and saw a transformer blow! This area is just not equipped for this kind of cold.

Wow that's crazy! Brrrr

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

Sally..have you seen this one....http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18323678
it is interesting..now, what is the composition/structure of the Mareks cells....that will- maybe give an idea as to weather it is still viable after freeze drying...still not going to be raising or feeding them now to the birds, but it is good to know...