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[bnjrob]

Anyone NPIP and what's the cost and process? Who do you contact? I found an e-mail address but it bounces back as undeliverable.

Did you contact the person for the region through TVMDL?

My husband had contacted the guy months ago to ask questions. Finally got an answer back but took forever. I sent an email at least a month ago to get him to set up a time to come out to do the typhoid/pullorum testing, cuz he told hubby that they set up appts for testing in the area and did a bunch at the same time. Well, still waiting for the guy to email back.....probably gonna have hubby just call to TVMDL.

 

[Little Wing]

Spent the whole day working on the coup, and it should be ready for move in for next weekend! It will serve as an outsde brooder for another week or two before they get steady acces to the run...mainly because i still have to cover it.

I have 9 chicks that are 4.5 weeks old, these guys are movin out asap, i then have 6 chicks that are 2 weeks behind them. Will there be a major integration issue? I was planning on letting them brood together in the coup in anither week or 2 once the younger ones feather out a bit more before i start openeing the run for them.

Will i be able to just put them together since they are pretty close together in age, or will i still have to segregate them?

They should get along fine. I have chicks in the outdoor brooder that are 2 and 3 weeks apart and they all play nice.

 

[Cockle-Dood]

They should get along fine. I have chicks in the outdoor brooder that are 2 and 3 weeks apart and they all play nice.

Good! Thats what i was hoping for! Cant wait to grt them all outside!

 

[CatKai]

Did you contact the person for the region through TVMDL?

My husband had contacted the guy months ago to ask questions. Finally got an answer back but took forever. I sent an email at least a month ago to get him to set up a time to come out to do the typhoid/pullorum testing, cuz he told hubby that they set up appts for testing in the area and did a bunch at the same time. Well, still waiting for the guy to email back.....probably gonna have hubby just call to TVMDL.

I sent an e-mail to [email protected]
I have sent to this same e-mail address before several times and it bounces back as undeliverable. Sent to it today and it didn't bounce back.

 

[RachaelS]

Okay, I need to find homes for 2 silver penciled Plymouth rocks hens. They have only been with an SPR Cock, so for the next month (give or take) they will lay pure eggs if you want to hatch. Willing to trade 2 bags of layer or game feed. This is a really good deal. They are direct from Dick Hortsman, however, while pretty, I can not say they are SQ since I don't show. The Cock is my fav boy, not "cuddly" but not aggressive and follows me around until I try to touch him. Safe with my kids. Willing to meet around the Austin Area. They were born March of last year, so just now hitting 1 year.

 

[yinepu]

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that also goes for mini horses and especially mini donkeys.. I have never had so much "help" in the yard until i start building something

 

[TexasLisa]

cant wait to do my garden next year! everything is clay where i am so i am having to build my soil a bit before i can get anything really going. might do a little test garden this year though...now THATS going to be a real first time for me!

Cockle-Dood, what are you going to do to your soil? We just bought our place a little over a year ago and we also have the clay soil. My husband has been adding sand to it. It has helped immensely.

Lisa

 

[Cockle-Dood]

Cockle-Dood, what are you going to do to your soil? We just bought our place a little over a year ago and we also have the clay soil.  My husband has been adding sand to it.  It has helped immensely.

Lisa

Wow! Good to know! I have never done any of this before so i honestly ddnt know what i was gonna do aside from tilling compost into the soil. I will definately keep sand in mind as well! Thanks!

 

[cmcanallen]

Cockle-Dood, what are you going to do to your soil? We just bought our place a little over a year ago and we also have the clay soil.  My husband has been adding sand to it.  It has helped immensely.

Lisa

I know this was addressed to cockle-dude, but I thought I'd put in my two cents of advice. I had a clay/sand soil mix. I think the previous owners tried to sand the clay and failed badly.

I had a horticulturist out here last year to remove some dead trees and he recommended the following: every year before spring tilling-
50lbs/1000sq ft land of cotton seed meal
50lbs/1000sq ft land of alfalfa pellets
10lbs/1000sq ft land of dried molasses
Every 3-5 year's-
25lbs/1000sq ft land of pelletized lime

I did this last year and had a bumper crop when the year before I couldn't get anything to sprout. It also helps grass seed to take better. We put it all down in the fall and till everything under in the gardens in the spring but just let it all sit on the lawn. Areating (sp?) the lawn normally breaks everything up.

 

[bnjrob]

I sent an e-mail to [email protected]
I have sent to this same e-mail address before several times and it bounces back as undeliverable. Sent to it today and it didn't bounce back.

That's the person that s'posed to be the director. When we first inquired last year, hubby was told to contact our regional person. We're in region 2 and contacted that person.

So far I haven't been real impressed with the "customer service" with the pullorum/typhoid program. If they are so worried about the diseases, you'd think they'd be more on the ball and get back to you faster. As far as the server bouncing your emails....TAMU has had so many computer server/hacker issues. It's pretty bad. And the stupid things go down every night for hours, so if you are trying to browse the TVMDL site at night (like I have tried to do) - you can't access it when it's down for its daily maintenance.