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[tnspursfan09]

I am on my 5th sick day with a cold and my 5th sick day in 2 years.

Anybody whant to trade noses for a day or 2?

You don't want my nose...allergies.

I hope you feel better soon. Good excuse for chicken soup.

 

[ronott1]

@Wisher1000 I am bringing the black head and turkey thing here to discuss. I do not want to be off topic over on the Heritage thread LOL.

You can treat your chickens for black head. There is medicine for that. Once they have been treated and it is not in the dirt anymore, you should be able to have Turkeys with chickens.

You know all medicine is not evil and I get a bit tired of the breed for resistance stuff over there. Our livestock live in an artificial environment and the buggies are changing all the time. The weather change and foreign invading species are often the culprit.

 

[ozexpat]

Why was it postponed?

I believe that it was postponed due to not enough chickens to give away. Oz had a large batch of eggs incubating that were affected by a power outage during the cyclone that hit the PI. Those eggs were to be the chickens that were going to be given away during the mission.

thats exactly right

we lost well over a 100 eggs in the bator. I thought I could recover but then they great molt of 2013 hit and I was down to 3 eggs a day

I added 30 mins of light a week ago and am up to 24-30 eggs a day

we have around 130 eggs in the bator, I will hatch out around 150-180 crosses for the mission - then cull to 30 trios - 90 total. The birds will be 6-7 months and producing.

If I gave away teenagers the may not make it to point of lay

 

[Wisher1000]

Ron - Would love to see you on that TOFH trip to Coco Beach, too! As I would Arielle and all the rest. I guess I have to stop calling people out sometime, I just didn't want anyone to feel left out if I didn't mention them by name. Irealize now that I can't possibly name all of my friends here so I will just say "EVERYBODY, think about it and let's do this!"

I have tried several times to raise poults. Each time they did great until 3-6 months when they dropped dead. Then, last summer, I had a bout of losing chickens that had even the state lab stumped. Through my own research, I guessed that it was a Blackhead overload that was killing my chickens and treated them. I stopped losing birds in August, soon after I began treating them, but it was already slacking off when I started meds, so I am not certain if it was the meds, the issue had run it's course, or the fact that the weather had gotten drier.

 

[tnspursfan09]

Ron - Would love to see you on that TOFH trip to Coco Beach, too!  As I would Arielle and all the rest.  I guess I have to stop calling people out sometime, I just didn't want anyone to feel left out if I didn't mention them by name.  Irealize now that I can't possibly name all of my friends here so I will just say "EVERYBODY, think about it and let's do this!"

I have tried several times to raise poults.  Each time they did great until 3-6 months when they dropped dead.  Then, last summer, I had a bout of losing chickens that had even the state lab stumped.  Through my own research, I guessed that it was a Blackhead overload that was killing my chickens and treated them.  I stopped losing birds in August, soon after I began treating them, but it was already slacking off when I started meds, so I am not certain if it was the meds, the issue had run it's course, or the fact that the weather had gotten drier.

Drier would be nice. We lost power last night @ about 3 am. It was off for two hours. Soooo glad we have the wood stove.

 

[ronott1]

Ron - Would love to see you on that TOFH trip to Coco Beach, too! As I would Arielle and all the rest. I guess I have to stop calling people out sometime, I just didn't want anyone to feel left out if I didn't mention them by name. Irealize now that I can't possibly name all of my friends here so I will just say "EVERYBODY, think about it and let's do this!"

I have tried several times to raise poults. Each time they did great until 3-6 months when they dropped dead. Then, last summer, I had a bout of losing chickens that had even the state lab stumped. Through my own research, I guessed that it was a Blackhead overload that was killing my chickens and treated them. I stopped losing birds in August, soon after I began treating them, but it was already slacking off when I started meds, so I am not certain if it was the meds, the issue had run it's course, or the fact that the weather had gotten drier.

Try treating them for Blackhead at each season change this year and try Turkeys again next year.

I Wish I could raise a Turkey in town!

 

[tnspursfan09]

Getting her hair done.

 

[tnspursfan09]

All dressed up and ready for the Royal Ball!

 

[ozexpat]

Mrs Oz spent 2 days looking for these hair thingees for chinese new year

 

[tnspursfan09]

Mrs Oz spent 2 days looking for these hair thingees for chinese new year

oz...she's so beautiful! Maddy saw this and actually squealed. My poor ears! She said "She looks just like Kai-lan, Mamaw."