The Old Folks Home

[Alaskan]

Alaskan just tell everyone that the restroom is out of order. Also turn the heat down. That make work with inlaws.

I could always just open windows.

 

[Double Kindness]

Happy holidays everyone! We've been busy as always, the new brinsea brooder heater came in that will fit 50 chicks/ducklings and the hovabator 1588 and my bf ordered the janoel 47, but I'm pretty sure we got sent a cheap chinese knockoff, it doesn't even look like the janoel or the picture of the incubator on the box. We're seeing if it holds temp and humidity, if so, we'll keep it, if not, back it goes to Amazon along with a scathing review.

We exchanged gifts on the 21st for the solstice. I also ordered a bright pink french press from amazon that arrive completely shattered like it had been drop kicked, helped with a metal baseball bat and golf club to get to my house from the warehouse. It got sent back and I got an aero press instead and I LOVE it!

Instant coffee was an insult to my senses every morning. Even with "special" home made caramel sauce to make my hack on the caramel coffee.

I'm freaking out, b/c we're headed on a 4 hour drive to visit friends for the holidays and having someone house/critter/plant sit is making me feel sick. B/c you know.. leaving feather babies for the first time is HARD.

I did make limincello with meyer lemons and regular lemons as well as limes to gift this year.

All roos and ducks are finally at freezer camp. I keep threatening to cull my 2 ayam cemani roos Boss and Reginald, but my bf won't let me. He calls them "money birds" and "OUR" organic alarm clock. Ppfftt, ours. But he did get me 2 incubators and brooder heaters and has been telling everyone that now I have the ability to create "infinite chickens and ducks".. I believe I'm going for my phd in chicken math now.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I know when you tell me I will feel stupid, but what is NPIP? THX.
Cynthia, gorgeous babies!

National Poultry Improvement Program. It's a nationwide deal that is administered by each state's agriculture department. Every state's program is dramatically different.
Most states only blood test a percentage of the birds on property. In Missouri, every bird over 3 months of age must be tested. Once tested, no birds from non-NPIP flocks can be brought onto the property.
I thought catching all my birds was going to be chaos but it didn't go too badly. I just kept them all in coops till I got them caught one by one.
I have to have them tested each year by the end of August to maintain my certification.

http://www.poultryimprovement.org/default.cfm

Currently, neither Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada nor Arizona are declared Pullorum - Typhoid free states.
I'm not sure if the diseases have been detected there or why. Arizona doesn't require NPIP or testing for birds imported. They just have to look healthy.

If I am not mistaken its National Poultry Impovement Program.... To get Certified your flock has to pass a series of blood tests looking for TB and a few others. Each program is different depending on what state you are in. There may be diseases local to a certain area they want to make sure are excluded.

You have to be NPIP certified in order to sell eggs chicks or chickens outside of your state.

I believe there is a different program per state if you are selling eggs for consumption. I checked into getting a Shell Egg permitt sometime ago.... But in California its only required if you want to sell someplace like a swap meet....

Since I am planning on going through a CoOp of sorts for marketing I will research that later on.... I want to get involved with the localvore movement here in San Diego County.

deb

The only thing that they have to check for is Pullorum - Typhoid. It's free in Missouri. Other things can be tested for here including AI and Salmonella. It was recommended that I not test for anything else though because false positives are probably and then further testing has to be done. If those tests determine any birds had been exposed to AI the whole flock has to be destroyed even if they're immune.

I originally thought NPIP was only necessary for crossing state lines but actually in MO its not legal to transport birds within the state unless they're tested.


I had a big concern yesterday. Before opening coop doors, I went to fill the feed troughs with FF when I saw a sparrow sitting on one of the troughs. They usually fly off when I approach but it didn't move. I went for my pellet gun since it seemed sick. By the time I came back, it was sitting in the feed trough. I killed it and burned it, then disinfected the feed trough and cleaned up the pen.

I could always just open windows.

Are they from Alaska? If so, they're acclimated.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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All roos and ducks are finally at freezer camp. I keep threatening to cull my 2 ayam cemani roos Boss and Reginald, but my bf won't let me. He calls them "money birds" and "OUR" organic alarm clock. Ppfftt, ours. But he did get me 2 incubators and brooder heaters and has been telling everyone that now I have the ability to create "infinite chickens and ducks".. I believe I'm going for my phd in chicken math now.

I have to use a baby monitor to hear my roosters crow. Right now I have about 1 rooster and about 13 cockerels that are either crowing or about to start. I have to get some butchered but with Christmas, I doubt I'll get it done till at least Friday.

I wouldn't mind hearing them in the morning but I guess my house is just too soundproof.

 

[Double Kindness]

Lol the 2 ac roos I am referring to have both had the crow reduction surgery, but to give them credit, our bedroom window is just a few feet from their enclosed chicken run and coop. Still, betwixt 3 roos with the crow reduction surgery going at it in the morning gets a bit.. much.

I have 5 more cockrels not old or big enough to join in the morning rendition of "Anything you can do I can do better" that begins at 645 every morning. So I am hoping to get 2 of the white bresse crow reduced, then rehome my salmon favorelle x wellsummer x light brahma roo along with my assorted egg layers (13 atm) to concentrate on the fibromelanistic meat birds (ayam cemani, svart honas) & the white bresse.

I'm going to hatch as many chicks as I can after the new year and get my NPIP started. You know, because I need to begin my phd in chicken math right away.

 

[dsqard]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Bama this one's for you

 

[bamadude]

Lol.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Lol the 2 ac roos I am referring to have both had the crow reduction surgery, but to give them credit, our bedroom window is just a few feet from their enclosed chicken run and coop. Still, betwixt 3 roos with the crow reduction surgery going at it in the morning gets a bit.. much.

I have 5 more cockrels not old or big enough to join in the morning rendition of "Anything you can do I can do better" that begins at 645 every morning. So I am hoping to get 2 of the white bresse crow reduced, then rehome my salmon favorelle x wellsummer x light brahma roo along with my assorted egg layers (13 atm) to concentrate on the fibromelanistic meat birds (ayam cemani, svart honas) & the white bresse.

I'm going to hatch as many chicks as I can after the new year and get my NPIP started. You know, because I need to begin my phd in chicken math right away.

I suggest applying for the testing before you have too many birds and it can take as long as 3 months to be scheduled depending on time of year. If it takes a long time and you've already hatched, they may be of an age that needs to be tested by the time of your appointment.

If owls or coyotes wake the chickens they'll crow in the middle of the night.
I used to have to get up early in CR to be at work on time and I loved the neighborhood roosters because I never needed an alarm clock. If I worked nights, I wouldn't appreciate it.
I'm usually up before the chickens now.

 

[bamadude]

Yeah Merry Christmas every1

 

[hennible]

It's not Christmas yet