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[microchick]

If that is the case, and the Marek's kills around 2 years old, then only breeding from birds around 2-3 years old would improve resistance because any birds that don't make it that long weren't resistant and birds that make it that long are resistant.

Yep, only my chickens threw a monkey wrench on that option. I had a Welsummer rooster die at 25 months. True to the course of this disease in my flock, he was fine one day, the next I found him sitting on his roost, head down, gasping for breath and cyanotic. I put him down so he wouldn't suffer. No other symptoms other than being thin. I suspect either lung or heart tumors. He had developed a limp when he was very young. Looking back, it was probably the initial MD leg involvement that he survived only to succumb to the tumors when breeding season was rolling around.

I'm shooting for any birds who will survive longer than 25 months at this point. I do have hens that meet that criteria but unfortunately none of my roosters have made it that far. If by next spring I have any surviving roosters, I'll start hatching some eggs from my standards. Right now their breeding program is on hold until I can get a rooster or two with some resistance and longivity.

I find it ironic that I love roosters dearly and they are the ones that succumb fastest for me.More than likely due to breeding stress.

My boys are very special to me and at this point none of my original 4 roosters have survived. Luckily I have a high hatch rate of cockerels in my bantams. One will be a year old in September. Half way there!

 

[Beer can]

Internet out again at our house. No technician till Thursday... Now a lightning storm and bang and our modem and base for portable phones fried... No cell service at house either.
Jacking work WiFi right now.
Guess I'll have to find another good book lol.

 

[room onthebroom]

I find it ironic that I love roosters dearly and they are the ones that succumb fastest for me.More than likely due to breeding stress.

I know what you mean! Whenever I have a favorite hen, I feel like I'm pretty much writing out her death sentence.

 

[microchick]

I know what you mean! Whenever I have a favorite hen, I feel like I'm pretty much writing out her death sentence.

Same here. My husband will ask me what a chick's name is and when I tell him, he pats it on it's little head and says, 'Well, been nice knowin' ya!' He says that whenever I name my birds, they do not live long and prosper.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Internet out again at our house. No technician till Thursday... Now a lightning storm and bang and our modem and base for portable phones fried... No cell service at house either.
Jacking work WiFi right now.
Guess I'll have to find another good book lol.

I am sorry, makes you want to forget to pay ur bill.

 

[getaclue]

Went for chemo today, but didn't get it. We stopped it. It's done as much as it's going to do. I start on an aromatase inhibitor tomorrow.

The PT scan is not very good, but not very bad. I have 2 teensy spots on my spine. They did not light up, so they're not showing as cancer at this time, but due to the nature of my cancer, they probably are cancer. We have to keep an eye on them to see what develops

 

[room onthebroom]

Same here. My husband will ask me what a chick's name is and when I tell him, he pats it on it's little head and says, 'Well, been nice knowin' ya!' He says that whenever I name my birds, they do not live long and prosper.

D'oh! Sounds like your DH has a pretty funny (albeit twisted) sense of humor.

 

[ronott1]

Turns out we got nothing. I would love a truck just like the one i totalled. But with 4x4. Long bed, no crew cab. Not 5 feet to the floor board from the ground. You would not think it would be so hard. My theory is that a lot of people have more than one truck and are hogging the good ones.

Sorry about the truck.

I had to drive to Sacramento today to get a sim card for a new phone. I bought one from amazon and most of those to not come with the sim card. Sprint will give you one for the phone but the franchise sprint stores charge for them. The corporate stores have them for fee but the closest one was out of them.

I did spend an hour on the phone with sprint but they did not get me connected to the correct unit to get one to me by mail. Weird customer service for sure!

 

[ronott1]

Went for chemo today, but didn't get it. We stopped it. It's done as much as it's going to do. I start on an aromatase inhibitor tomorrow.

The PT scan is not very good, but not very bad. I have 2 teensy spots on my spine. They did not light up, so they're not showing as cancer at this time, but due to the nature of my cancer, they probably are cancer. We have to keep an eye on them to see what develops

I hope it does not progress!

 

[room onthebroom]

Went for chemo today, but didn't get it. We stopped it. It's done as much as it's going to do. I start on an aromatase inhibitor tomorrow.

The PT scan is not very good, but not very bad. I have 2 teensy spots on my spine. They did not light up, so they're not showing as cancer at this time, but due to the nature of my cancer, they probably are cancer. We have to keep an eye on them to see what develops

Keeping my fingers crossed & sending out healthy thoughts to you clue!