South Carolina

[ChickyChickyBaby]

I live in Lugoff, SC and work at a feed and seed in Ridgeway, SC. Excited to be here!

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

I will certainly miss being with you all on Sat.!

Maybe we can meet up on March 3rd at the next one. It is a bit closer for me.

Where is that one and I wonder if I will be grounded .........

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

And welcome to the best thread on BYC!!!
I would love to work at a feed and seed. That would be so cool to be on the side of the counter taking the money instead of the side that always GIVES the money.

Certainly tell us more about yourself, your chickens, your projects, your garden and all the ideas you have for everything. We dream BIG on this thread! And will encourage your dreams, too. Though most people like to call it enabling!

I would only want to work there when they get chicks/ducks/etc in

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

I know there's been a lot of discussion about the NPIP testing lately and I've been following the same talk on another thread too. This came from the English Orp thread here on BYC. I just thought I would share this with you all, this is exactly why I choose not to be tested.

A sample of my birds are tested every three months for AI. The test is a titer test that will react to any strain of AI.
I do this because,I am in a waterfowl fly zone. Many farms do this now because it is a part of the NPIP program.

I think their point was to not knowinglyintroduce birds that could spread disease. It's one thing to say there is the potential for alot of birds to have AI, but another to to say yes, the bird(s) is/are infected.

I've been through this in my flock also, not to the extent of what happened at the USDA facility, but I lost some birds because of the "rules".

I had to give up some of my breeding flock last year because a couple of my older hens tested positive to pullorum. I repeatedly told the State that I vaccinate for MG, which causes false positives. The birds were older specimens that would most likely cause a reaction to titer tests because of the likelihood of e-coli infection that also causes a false positive reaction. These birds had been tested also in the previous years I have been NPIP certified and had negative tests. They didn't want to hear it. So I had to kill them and they went off to the lab for necropsy and further tests on their reproductive organs. Guess what, they came back negative. So I lost a couple of my very nice breeder birds for not. But rules are rules and in order to keep my status, I followed them.

FROM A STATE TESTER: a tester is not going to come test your birds and at a first positive test, demand you kill them. If you test positive at first, blood will be drawn into a tube & sent to the state lab. There it will be tested further. It is very possible to have a on-site positive test and a negative lab test. With a negative lab test, nothing further is done. The bacteria can cause a false-positive on site, but the lab testing will be from the blood itself, not a prick to the skin (skin can harbor the bacteria). If the lab test is positive, the birds must then be sent for necropsy.


From Me: My main concern has not been testing...but privacy issues. But as a breeder, people will need to know my addy & phone number anyways. I am looking forward to learning first hand how all of this works.

 

[dixiebeast]

Welcome to BYC!!

We love to enable...er I mean help new comers!!

Not too much exciting about me, I just work and go to school. About a year ago I brought home two Easter Egger chicks and that started the addiction. I also brought home what I thought was a Buff Orpington pullet, but it turned out to be a big, burly, mean rooster. But we love him just the same. I am currently in the market for some hatching eggs so I can grow my feathered family!

 

[dixiebeast]

Ok...so Idiot the escapee has been caught...he is back in jail...I posted a FB vid of him trying to get back out...due to the fact he just stands and glares at me the vid is shot from the tarped side of the prison!! LOL

He seriously wants out!!

 

[Patsy29332]

I live in Lugoff, SC and work at a feed and seed in Ridgeway, SC. Excited to be here!

Welcome to one of the friendliest places online!

I have had my chickens/chicks for about 7 months...started with a group of 5 - 1 roo and 4 hens...now I have ummm...more than that!

And 2 incubators going right now with 52 eggs of varying types!

WARNING! This obsession is overpowering and contageous and...wonderfully fulfilling...

 

[Patsy29332]

Where is that one and I wonder if I will be grounded .........

Yea...I could maybe make that one...where is it and what is it?

 

[Southern Bee Lady]

From Me: My main concern has not been testing...but privacy issues. But as a breeder, people will need to know my addy & phone number anyways. I am looking forward to learning first hand how all of this works.

Privacy no longer exist. Check out this website. http://neighbors.whitepages.com/ Enter your address, and up comes a map of your area...and a list of all neighbors and their phone numbers!

 

[Southern Bee Lady]

Does anyone have a couple of Black Copper Maran pullets/hens for sale. A friend in Easley is looking. He is going to Newnan so might find something there.

Kimberly only a couple of more days