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[WestKnollAmy]

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I am going to pay to get my car back but since they refuse to release it to me I am filing against the Greenville County Sheriff's office and demanding a reimbursement. If they felt the need to have it towed down there and will not release it then I feel I have no obligation to pay this fee. It is, imo, their responsibility since they did not allow me to pick it up immediately.
I have been told so many different stories from the Sheriff's Office and North Hills towing that I believe their incompetence can be challenged in court. Thank goodness for all the lawyers and magistrates I have had to get to know through the years.

And yes, there will be a lot of photos taken of the car before I ever drive it off the lot. It will show the area it is parked in and I hate now I did not take my camera with me and no longer have a cell phone with a camera. Hindsight.....

Good for you, selling some birds! I know it will make your rearranging and clean up a bit better to have less birds to worry over. At least it is cool for your clean up!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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I hate to complain about cooler weather but.....I am tired of wet feet and slipping in the mud. My tall grass is making it a bit miserable but DD's boyfriend has fixed part of the problem on our mower and tomorrow will put our deck back on and try to help DH get it running so I can mow on Monday. Cool beans, baby!

Joy, you are as bad as I am. Cutting back but getting more. I have a hard time sticking to my guns when they are so lovely. Actually, I am just going to cut back on some varieties but will probably keep the same breeds.
I have to expand my laying flock to meet all my winter egg orders. Around Oct. people start buying me out regularly and that goes on through Jan. when it slows down and then come summer it is almost non existent.
I am trying not to hatch much right now and probably won't hatch after Oct. I would love to shut down my bators and give them a good cleaning.
Come Jan. I will start up again and hopefully have a more organized system of brooding chicks. As it is I am once again out of space.

 

[phoneman]

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boy they are pretty. can not wait to get them. are they 2 roosters or can you tell.

i can not seem to down load my camera to the computer.. but i can tell you that they will be real nice. do you want blues or splash color.
1 just had 3 blrw hens came off the nest with16 blrw chicks. and i have some older. i will see you at the meet

At first i thought it was 1 pullet & 1 roo, but now I've been paying extra attn to them, I think its 2 roos...but you know as well as I do, at that age it's VERY hard to tell. I will take the splash!!

i looked in the pen today i did not see any splash. it is a lot of weeds in this pen for shade. the pen is 25 ft.wide and 50 ft. long. if there is a splash in the pen i will bring them. if not i will bring you a really nice pr. of the blues. and i mean nice.

 

[FarmerJohn3285]

Jack, that is totally fine by me. Can't wait to see em.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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You will see cocci eggs for about 10 days and then none for a week or so and then more will hatch out. Treatment with Sulmet should be given for about 5 days, wait a week and do another 5 days, wait a week and another 5 days. At that point you should see a negative fecal.
Also, your pen floor should be sprayed down with 1/10 bleach/water and if possible, move your pen. If you can't then the spraying of the bleach water should help but anything green will be killed out. make sure the ground is dry before putting birds back on it.

I am very surprised that your vet hasn't told you the life cycle of cocci. Or is helping you with the treatment for this. It occurs in so many cats and dogs and has always been a fascinating find under the microscope. You are definitely not seeing air bubbles, right? Since cocci take a stronger power to see, a lot of techs mistake air bubbles for cocci.

I used to have about 100 fecals waiting on me on Saturdays and did about all of them in 15 minutes. Talk about speed reading! Saturdays are a super busy day at most vet clinics.

 

[pinkwindsong]

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its crazy how much you miss..in a day or two..

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[Lroach711]

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You will see cocci eggs for about 10 days and then none for a week or so and then more will hatch out. Treatment with Sulmet should be given for about 5 days, wait a week and do another 5 days, wait a week and another 5 days. At that point you should see a negative fecal.
Also, your pen floor should be sprayed down with 1/10 bleach/water and if possible, move your pen. If you can't then the spraying of the bleach water should help but anything green will be killed out. make sure the ground is dry before putting birds back on it.

I am very surprised that your vet hasn't told you the life cycle of cocci. Or is helping you with the treatment for this. It occurs in so many cats and dogs and has always been a fascinating find under the microscope. You are definitely not seeing air bubbles, right? Since cocci take a stronger power to see, a lot of techs mistake air bubbles for cocci.

I used to have about 100 fecals waiting on me on Saturdays and did about all of them in 15 minutes. Talk about speed reading! Saturdays are a super busy day at most vet clinics.

I learned the life cycle of cocci when I was in school...but that seems like a million yrs ago now lol. No they definately aren't air bubbles. I've seen cocci a zillion times..just in dogs mostly. It's just diff for me treating these chickens than it is in dogs. It's soo much easier and quicker in cats and dogs. We either use ponazaril which we only have to give orally one time or albon for a series of days. 9 times out of 10 on the recheck fecal you dont see anything. I've been moving their tractor every few days. Hopefully they'll get over all this soon.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I wonder why Albon doesn't work on chickens? I guess a whole different make up of animal but that has always been such a great product to get rid of it in mammals.
I do not know of anything stronger to buy over the counter for chickens than Sulmet but I was hoping your vet may be able to find something. There probably isn't much because no one thinks chickens are all that special. Just us!

If you are moving the tractor then they should not be picking it back up unless they have been in that spot before. It is just so hard to get rid of once it is on stuff, like roosting poles. They walk through it and pick it up again, it gets wet and it moves down to somewhere else. It is so much better to find another parasite than this crap.

I have one pen in particular that I have had to bleach a many times to get rid of it. It is stationary and has concrete block walls with a dirt floor. I would think I had sprayed it down heavy enough with bleach water but then the next chicks in it would get it so we would go through all that again and then the next ones I put in I found it again so I soaked it down 5 times before putting more chicks in and so far so good. Cocci can just bounce around when sprayed with water but a strong enough bleach mixture and getting the whole surface helps. I must have been missing something and hope now I never see it again. But it will come in with wild birds so I am sure mine will get it again eventually.

 

[Lroach711]

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Yeah..cocci is a pain in the rear! I guess part of the problem is maybe that they free range too..so they can get to all the spots where the tractor used to be. Once they get older cocci isn't as much of a problem right? I know with dogs and cats we usually only see it in the puppies and kittens. Guess I'm going to try and bleach the tractor some and hope that helps! Luckily all the chickens in there act like they feel fine. They're all eating and drinking..so I'm not too worried. I'd just like to get rid of the stuff!

 

[pinkwindsong]

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I wonder by her moving the tractor around, and them still positive,,, is she not spreading it to clean areas of land where it is now infected? wouldn't it be better to keep them ion one spot treat the ground there and their roosts etc, then when they test neg, move to a clean patch of ground... how long will it live in the area's she moved the tractor off of, and what if other neg chickens walk thru the old spot and spread it.. or even a dog.. get on his paws then he goes to where the chickens are in a " clean area" and then deposits the cocci off of his paws ?

good luck

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