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[featherhead007]

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busy day today!
bible study tonight,
group fishing trip and ministry tomorrow,
then study group and pot luck at 6o tomorrow night!

 

[featherhead007]

Same here! Very big things can go into the dishwasher because it does not have a central cone. The top spray heat connects from the back

My dishwasher is 2 hands, bottle of soap, and a sink! I prefer it that way!

 

[microchick]

Is it possible the Amish stock are "Typhoid Marys"? Resistant meaning they don't show symptoms and succumb to them but are carriers?

Oh, definitely.

A few years back we had a conservation forester evaluate our timber for rehabilitating as habitat. One of the natural wildlife we were trying to attract to our timber is wild turkey. He showed us how to create tussocks for the hens and chicks and I was surprised when he told us that the biggest threat to wild turkeys around us was the Amish. I ask if the problem was poaching and he said no, what was happening was all Amish farms had domestic turkeys running around and when one died they didn't dispose of the remains by burial or cremation, they tossed it in a ravine where it would spread whatever disease it died of into the wild population. Turkey mortality from infection was quite high as a result.

So yes, what you propose is very possible if not down right likely. I got my flock in March of 2015 and they started dying within 12 months. It think the first ones started showing symptoms later that summer. I had the first death early the following spring. The last death directly related to first outbreak was last June. In that time I wasn't in direct contact with any other flock nor was anyone in contact with my flock.

It had to be airborne.

 

[ronott1]

My dishwasher is 2 hands, bottle of soap, and a sink! I prefer it that way!

that is true for a lot of things. I do find the dishwasher handy though.

 

[featherhead007]

the sink is for dishes, the bathtub, for washing the rooster!

 

[featherhead007]

that is true for a lot of things. I do find the dishwasher handy though.

maybe I should try the dishwasher for the roo! LOL

 

[featherhead007]

Oh, definitely.

A few years back we had a conservation forester evaluate our timber for rehabilitating as habitat. One of the natural wildlife we were trying to attract to our timber is wild turkey. He showed us how to create tussocks for the hens and chicks and I was surprised when he told us that the biggest threat to wild turkeys around us was the Amish. I ask if the problem was poaching and he said no, what was happening was all Amish farms had domestic turkeys running around and when one died they didn't dispose of the remains by burial or cremation, they tossed it in a ravine where it would spread whatever disease it died of into the wild population. Turkey mortality from infection was quite high as a result.

So yes, what you propose is very possible if not down right likely. I got my flock in March of 2015 and they started dying within 12 months. It think the first ones started showing symptoms later that summer. I had the first death early the following spring. The last death directly related to first outbreak was last June. In that time I wasn't in direct contact with any other flock nor was anyone in contact with my flock.

It had to be airborne.

I was going to get a turkey once, but I talked myself out of it!

 

[ronott1]

maybe I should try the dishwasher for the roo! LOL

I have heard of people cooking ramen soup in the dishwasher--not soap of course!

 

[microchick]

Thank you @Latestarter. Much appreciated. We all deal with the cards that we are dealt.

I'd gladly accept the help but then you would be contaminating your flock and I wouldn't want that.

It's like a dog chasing it's tail.

 

[microchick]

I haven't cooked anything in the dishwasher but I read once that you could sanitize your dish cloths by laying them over your top rack and running them through a cycle with the dishes. I tried it and sure enough, it works.