Silkie thread!

[Ms. Lewis Rich]

Buy the best and breed the rest!I have picked Buffs not easy Lots of culling need clear have reds to brighten up my Buffs!

 

[countrygirl911]

i only cull if they are very sick and nothing can be done or if they are injured real bad we have two coops one that is going to be for breeding and te other that is for the ones not to be breed so that they all can live and die only when they are suppose to of old age. i am having to work on my flock again i lost all but 2 from a coon attack will take me a while but i will have the breeding flock i want and had before the coons. the coons are dead and the coop is even tighter. also as i posted the pictures the little black one that was having a hard time breathing is no longer with us now i have to see how the one with the messed up beak is going to do. if he or she makes it then it will be placed in the coop that is not used for breeding.

 

[peepblessed]

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EACH state has different requirements for showing so you need to go online and look around for your NPIP links. Here in Texas we have a sister program that is the same as NPIP and is done free. Maybe someone there will speak up to what is required for you. It boils down to Polurum Typhoid testing of your flock. Nearly ALL shows require this testing to show.

California has the free small flock testing also.

Yes, California has a yearly fee but the testing is free...

 

[peepblessed]

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Sooooo sweet!! Mine are going into lockdown tomorrow! Hope they are as awesome as yours!

 

[racuda]

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I think most of us use the word "cull" to mean to remove from the breeding flock. So you too are "culling" by putting the ones not for breeding in their own pen.

 

[countrygirl911]

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I think most of us use the word "cull" to mean to remove from the breeding flock. So you too are "culling" by putting the ones not for breeding in their own pen.

oh ok so that is what everyone says culling is is removing them from the breeding pen i was going by what the term means at my husbands work with chickens his word for cull is to kill them. he works for sanderson farms. ok good to know that it means 2 different things learn something everyday

 

[Debbi]

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I think most of us use the word "cull" to mean to remove from the breeding flock. So you too are "culling" by putting the ones not for breeding in their own pen.

X2. I think quite a few people see the word "cull" and assume you mean kill. Culling just refers to the removal from the flock, as Racuda said. Whether it be by selling, or putting in a layers only pen, or....in the stew pot. Culling is removal from the breeding flock, by which ever means you choose.

 

[SilkieTime]

Well put.

 

[peepblessed]

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Soooo pretty!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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EACH state has different requirements for showing so you need to go online and look around for your NPIP links. Here in Texas we have a sister program that is the same as NPIP and is done free. Maybe someone there will speak up to what is required for you. It boils down to Polurum Typhoid testing of your flock. Nearly ALL shows require this testing to show.

Actually, most of the western states do not require testing or NPIP to show. Seems like the farther east you are though, the more stringent the requirements.