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[drumstick diva]

same for us, this winter temp has been going up then way down so we can have turns with snow, icy sleet and even thunderstorms.

 

[MrsMistyReal]

 

[Beer can]

We have a burn ban, March 15 to May 15 every yr. Most wildfires happen then before the ban. Still have lots of snow, will get lots of rain, but dry days, everything is dead, dry, until 'real spring' visits us and greens up.
And then we stay green and growing ,
until it starts freezing again

 

[Alaskan]

We have a burn ban, March 15 to May 15 every yr. Most wildfires happen then before the ban. Still have lots of snow, will get lots of rain, but dry days, everything is dead, dry, until 'real spring' visits us and greens up.
And then we stay green and growing ,
until it starts freezing again

soooo, green and growing for three weeks eh?

 

[Beer can]

I don't have much of the Welsummers I had, way back when a phone/camera wasn't setting in my hand lol, and not much for taking egg pics...lol, egg pics
But I did find a couple on here, I know I had a better pic of that roo, older, and more pics of eggs, hard to search when you go back a few yrs.. anyway;
Brown eggs, wellies, white, ginourmous egg brownleghorn,

 

[getaclue]

I haven't found the one I wanted to give you the links to, which was the documentation from one of the drug manufacturers, but here are a couple more papers on the subject, saying similar to what I had mentioned, but not quite as extensive at the one by the drug manufacturer.

https://www.ceva.com/Products/Poultry/Vaccines
Read where it says Vectormune, and the line "regardless of the level of maternal immunity."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03079457509353856
98 Denise H. Thornton, M.H. Hinton and J.C Muskett
The minimum permitted level of virus per field dose is 1,000 plaque forming units
(pfu) or that amount of virus that has been shown to be effective in the field provided
this is not less than 1,000 pfu per dose (Purchase et al, 1971 ; Eidson et al, 1972).
Although in vivo potency tests are expensive and may be uneconomic for routine use,
reliance on an in vitro test as a measure of potency may be unsatisfactory for the
following reasons. Firstly, the assay of virus content of Marek's disease vaccine is sus-
ceptible to technical variations (Ash and Barnhart, 1972; Churchill and Baxendale, 1972;
Okazaki etal, 1972;Patrascu and Calnek, 1972). Secondly, the ability of cell-
associated vaccines to induce adequate protection in birds with maternal immunity
has been shown to differ in some circumstances from that of cell-free vaccines (Calnek
and Smith, 1972; Eidson et al, 1973; Lifschitz, 1973) and this difference cannot be detected by in vitro tests.

The research I got into was more extensive on the maternal immunity, because it was about the development of the vaccine, and maternal immunity throws the vaccine off to some degree, so that was a factor they had to deal with when developing the vaccine.

It did not mention anything about the hen having to be 3 years old, for the chicks to begin showing antibodies. Albeit, the first generation may not develop enough antibodies to be fully resistant, they do have some resistance. When they are allowed to produce offspring, even more antibodies are present offering much higher resistance. It implied that within 4 - 6 years, depending on the strain of marek's, one could breed a flock that is anywhere from highly resistant, to totally immune.

 

[getaclue]

 

[Beer can]

soooo, green and growing for three weeks eh?

Month, I hope it's green by middle of May!! Don't plant till end of May, memorial weekend, hard frost can, not always but can kill all even all the apples when it happens.
We don't get those long days of sunlight to grow those giant vegetables like you Alaskans do lol.
Look at the taters they grow up there with that 24hr daylight !!

 

[ronott1]

I don't have much of the Welsummers I had, way back when a phone/camera wasn't setting in my hand lol, and not much for taking egg pics...lol, egg pics
But I did find a couple on here, I know I had a better pic of that roo, older, and more pics of eggs, hard to search when you go back a few yrs.. anyway;
Brown eggs, wellies, white, ginourmous egg brownleghorn,
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Very nice!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I bought 2 pear trees today, $17.99 each. Hoping to plant them tomorrow.