Selling chicks, best way to run it, and get the word out?

[The Brick Coop]

Avery, glad you're excited, good luck! the other posters were fantastic!!! take heed. Bridget

 

[Weeg]

12) get to know who does blood-testing in your neighborhood so you can test your new birds before adding them or if you all of a sudden realize you've got a virus whooshing through your flock.

Okay, question, so I want to be a vet. Correction, I am 1000% gonna be a vet! I don't know if anyone near us (including vets) does blood tests. Is it at all possible to do these things myself? If possible, I would LOVE to do All of my own injections and vaccinations! That would be SO amazing! DO you have any idea on who I would do that?

 

[Weeg]

(he came back in! my post was too long.) 11)quarantine any new birds at least 2 weeks before adding to your flock. 12) get to know who does blood-testing in your neighborhood so you can test your new birds before adding them or if you all of a sudden realize you've got a virus whooshing through your flock. Learn how to draw your chickens' blood to help the CPT do this. 13) if you want to offer Marek's you can get good at injections and vaccinate all your chicks at hatch (when I get a new vial I use sterile technique to split up the cake of lyophilized into four sections and store it in sterile tubes then split up the diluent too. Then store until next hatch. By the end of the summer all are vaccinated and even my breeders have used up the leftover as an annual booster (I keep track of who gets what when). 14) get a bound accounting book and write all your egg sources, breeder leg bands, vaccinations, sales, and customer contacts in it so you can track if some disease gets into your neighborhood. 15) mix your own ectoparasite shampoo by calculating (get it checked!) how much concentrate to add. sorry, I rambled. Someone just say stop!

This is really good info! You seem to have the "know how" Have you done all of this before? This is so cool! You are getting gem excited about this again! Lol!

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Okay, question, so I want to be a vet. Correction, I am 1000% gonna be a vet! I don't know if anyone near us (including vets) does blood tests. Is it at all possible to do these things myself? If possible, I would LOVE to do All of my own injections and vaccinations! That would be SO amazing! DO you have any idea on who I would do that?

Very interested in this question. I am also going to 100000% be a vet. Would love to hear the answers to this question.

 

[JadeFarms]

I want to do this too. I will be breeding LO and flarry eye grays. I have a nice looking black ameraucanas that is about 6 or 7 weeks too and more chicks hatching.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

A lot of people do mareks vaccines themselves

 

[Weeg]

A lot of people do mareks vaccines themselves

Any idea on how I would do it? Get the medication/administer?

 

[JadeFarms]

A lot of people do mareks vaccines themselves

I’ve done it, but if your not selling a lot of chicks. You have to use it right as everything’s mixed. It goes bad in like 4 hours. It’s really expensive, over $50 and has to be used on first day of hatch.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Vaccinations are fairly easy to self administer (all sorts of animal breeders do it), and if you have a centrifuge you can run fecal tests too. Bloodwork requires a lab. Every vet sends bloodwork to a lab where I live except emergency vets.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I’ve done it, but if your not selling a lot of chicks. You have to use it right as everything’s mixed. It goes bad in like 4 hours. It’s really expensive, over $50 and has to be used on first day of hatch.

Yes this is correct, but you can also wait, for example with staggered hatches, until all your chicks are hatched, as long as the chicks have not been outside and you practice good hygiene between the chicks and your flock.
I once used a whole bottle for 2 chicks!