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[perchie.girl]

still reading but I am not surprised...

No vaccines here. except for proven as giving actual immunological defense.


Merecks vaccine should be called something other than a vaccine. Gives a false sense....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Hey anyone seen this movie?

http://www.cmt.com/movies/chicken-people/

Its been out a while but the first time I saw an ad for it was last night. Looks hilarious.

deb

 

[ronott1]

Hey anyone seen this movie?

http://www.cmt.com/movies/chicken-people/

Its been out a while but the first time I saw an ad for it was last night. Looks hilarious.

deb

Yes, I own it on Amazon video and it is a very good movie.

Walt is the first Judge that they show in the movie. He is on BYC as fowlman01.

 

[perchie.girl]

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Now I HAVE to see it....

 

[getaclue]

A bigger problem is that the term "vaccine" is used somewhat indiscriminately, or is misleading in many cases.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous/

 

[ronott1]

A bigger problem is that the term "vaccine" is used somewhat indiscriminately, or is misleading in many cases.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous/

Thanks for posting this. I did read the article a while back. It helps explain more of why the mareks vaccine can make the illness worse in home flocks.

 

[pennyJo1960]

@perchie.girl I am with you looks hilarious

 

[Wickedchicken6]

This is what I do still understand my work was such with dogs so is
fairly clear I have not vaccinated any birds Mareks and buying them
they have not had the vaccine although it would be nice if like with the
dogs all pay a small price to look for that strain of immunity by sending
dna for testing would require massive participation to locate birds or flocks
that carry the latent resistance

That would take a mind blowing amount of participation...one I can't see that many would motivate towards that goal. A lot of people will give lip service...but they won't walk the walk.
I took part in trials for RFID tags for sheep that took a sample of the sheep's DNA from the ear and encapsulated it inside a vial attached to the tag so one could send it away and get a genetic profile on each animal to breed for Scrapie resistance. The tags were not perfect but part of the program was to generate feedback on these tags. From what I'm to understand, people failed to follow through with the plan and the entire idea was scrapped.

still reading but I am not surprised...

No vaccines here. except for proven as giving actual immunological defense.


Merecks vaccine should be called something other than a vaccine. Gives a false sense....

deb

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That's great info as well! I'm of the same feeling.
Reading these articles is pretty scary stuff...and it's not the disease that scares me as much as the people who are toying with all of this.

 

[perchie.girl]

That's great info as well! I'm of the same feeling.
Reading these articles is pretty scary stuff...and it's not the disease that scares me as much as the people who are toying with all of this.

Yup.... and dont get me on my soap box for Gene Splicing.....

deb

 

[pennyJo1960]

We never toyed we did search why is the epilepsy in some breeds more than others
hip displaysia.. brain tumors our work also helped answer questions for people