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[JShubin]

Your birds do not seem to have much to eat.

Yeah grass wont grow in the hard clay on that hill... They peck at the cactus and they love cactus fruit (tunas) when there are in season... and if you look to the right side of the screen you'lll see a huge fig tree... they eat the figs and fig leaves... but the fig tree is deciduous so in the winter it looks dead in there.

 

[hildar]

Miner.

Thank. I thought that was what it was but not sure.

 

[hildar]

ALL incoming birds must be quaranted for at least 30 days watched for any ailments.

That is what I always say keep them away from the rest for 30 days so just in case if they have something you can see it before they pass it on. Plus I like watch the new ones, and see their attitudes, and what they ike and don't like. If they have any aggression and so on. That all has to be done away from the others. If I see anything in a new one that I don't like. They get culled.

 

[sdm111]

taking your advise centra and just letting him tire hisself out on me then handling a lot more so far he's improving. Not fast but improvement nonetheless . And the bruises don't hurt as bad lol

 

[JShubin]

taking your advise centra and just letting him tire hisself out on me then handling a lot more so far he's improving. Not fast but improvement nonetheless . And the bruises don't hurt as bad lol

Great picture.

Are wearing gloves or anything to pad yourself from the spurs?

 

[sdm111]

No just skin and knee high mud boots

 

[NYREDS]

ALL incoming birds must be quaranted for at least 30 days watched for any ailments.

Or not. In 54 years of raising thousands of birds I've never quarantined a bird & never had a problem as a result. Try buying from reliable sources.

 

[sdm111]

Well I do, I'm not jeopardizing my flock cause of an ill bird. So you're saying u KNOW that every bird u aquire is ailment free?

 

[centrarchid]

Or not. In 54 years of raising thousands of birds I've never quarantined a bird & never had a problem as a result. Try buying from reliable sources.

I work with animals involving individual lot sizes of thousands. They very frequently come from sources or through channels where they must be certified as free of certain pathogens. Even those animals are quarantined. Pathogen related health issues are not restricted situations where pathogens are acquired from source. Organisms not normally pathogenic in the receiving environment need not be a problem with existing stock to be a problem with imported individuals. This business is not just about you and your stock, it also about other folks with their stocks and the role you play in slowing the spread of disease between stocks.

 

[centrarchid]

Man it is tough to be a bird and even tougher to be an old man around here. My 2 1/2 year old son follows me out to yard watches me dump waters, before refilling then he follows me and dumps them again before I get to the end of a row. I did not see what he was doing until finished so had to do it again. That gets to be work. Then he lets a hen out and she gets into scrap with a free-ranging pullet. I asked boy to break it up but he would not put match cars down to grab hen properly again making me work. Then 10 month old daughter grabbed a half grown duckling by the neck and stuck the be birds head in her mouth trying to bite down. Duck was then trying to get food out of her mouth. That was nasty.