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[CSolis]

Oops. Thank you. We have proof read that darned thing 6 times that I know of and I'm still finding a typo or two. Consider it fixed.

DH has been my Beta. Maybe we need to find a gamma reader.

Huppens to the beest of us!
Good news. 6 of Bonnie's eggs in the incubator, day 13, ALL 6 are showing little babes in there, happy and moving like crazy!

 

[ronott1]

Great job. I did find a tupo:
"You can's stop it from spreading. It's even in wild bird dander."

That wild bird dander thing is kinda scary!!!! I'm surprised my flock hasn't gotten it given all the house sparrows, grackles, etc that are around 24x7x365. And then there are the other migrating birds that hang out all summer.

They have had it! Usually birds do not show sickness but a percentage of the hens will have reproductive cancer at about age two.

Micro had a virulent strain.

 

[CSolis]

Hereeeeeeeesssssssss Kernel Corn Pop (KCP) at 3 1/2 weeks! It's his/her siblings in the incubator now.

I've finally named the cockerel that's a keeper from the first hatch from KE and Sara. He's KW or King Wheaties!

 

[microchick]

They are adorable, @CSolis! I love chicks when they are that age. Like human toddlers.

Boy ain't that the truth, @ronott1. I still can't figure out how I managed to get all three varieties, Visceral, Ocular and Neurological.

Were all three present in one strain or did I have three different strains? In all my reading I haven't been able to find anything about that, although I would think that if there were three different strains,then the vaccinated birds I bought wouldn't have been covered for all three.

It gets so confusing at times.

 

[ronott1]

They are adorable, @CSolis! I love chicks when they are that age. Like human toddlers.

Boy ain't that the truth, @ronott1. I still can't figure out how I managed to get all three varieties, Visceral, Ocular and Neurological.

Were all three present in one strain or did I have three different strains? In all my reading I haven't been able to find anything about that, although I would think that if there were three different strains,then the vaccinated birds I bought wouldn't have been covered for all three.

It gets so confusing at times.

I read and article that suggested a super strain coming from a combination of strains. You were unlucky to get one of the worst ones!

It is related to herpes so is an odd type of virus.

 

[microchick]

I read and article that suggested a super strain coming from a combination of strains. You were unlucky to get one of the worst ones!

It is related to herpes so is an odd type of virus.

Great, just what we need.

The ocular Marek's disease actually presents itself like ocular herpes does in humans causing an iridocyclitis-which is an inflammation of the iris and the ciliary bodies in the eye.

We found that out when my husband scoped Sassy's eyes and we found out it was herpes and she was almost blind.

So what I've wondered, given the conversation concerning the avian vaccine for MD, which is a herpes virus vaccine in essence, is this. If the vaccine has the potential to cause a more virulent strain of the herpes virus to emerge, what about the vaccine for genital herpes that is given to young people in their teens to prevent cervical cancer?

Are we seeing a potential for a more virulent strain of an STD to emerge in the future that will cause an even more virulent, deadly form of reproductive system herpes to emerge?

That's as profound as I'm getting today!

Morning old folk! Wakey Wakey eggs and bakey!

 

[CSolis]

Good Morning OF.. Had a little rain yesterday. Just enough to break the monotony of dry days.
Peg the new pullet decided to adventuring. She had been good most of the day, but that urge to go FREE RANGING outside the fenced area was just too much for her. Well, that's all she's ever known up until the time she got here. Needless to say, she's pretty clever about the hot wire. So, this time instead of going through and up the front yard towards her old home, it was out and about in the back yard.. Waaaayyyyyyyy back there near the property line where the cleared area stops and the woods begin. I didn't want to go after her thinking it might just push her into the woods, which would be fatal. So, I called and called, put food and water out, and she would pop her head up and just look at me, then go for more yummy bugs and stuff. I finally said "Lord I would hate to lose her, but this looks like a no win situation" It had been sprinkling up until then... then it started raining in earnest.. Ha ha ha, she beat feet across the yard, and headed straight in to the large round turn out pen with the rest of the pullets. I just had to laugh.

 

[silverhair67]

Morning, had a dream last night was in RK again looking at the new birds heard the voice Resistance is futile

 

[CSolis]

Morning, had a dream last night was in RK again looking at the new birds heard the voice Resistance is futile

One of Us.. One of Us!

 

[silverhair67]

One of Us.. One of Us!

Uh yeah