The Quack Shack

[rjohns39]

Good morning Bob! Thank you. So if you have 100 chickens ducks and geese they have to draw blood on each one. Boy that would be time consuming.

Here they only do 10%

 

[Pyxis]

What do they do for NPIP?

Here they test up to 30 birds. Waterfowl don't get tested for pullorum, but they do get tested for AI, so that'll happen. That's a swab. The chickens get pullorum tested, which is a bit of blood taken from the vein under the wing. They stick them with a small need to get a couple drops and then mix it with the antigen.

 

[Pyxis]

Testing is done! It went well. No one had pullorum, and the swabs for AI will be sent out for testing.

I only got covered in bird blood once, and all the birds were well-behaved and held nicely still. Which my tester appreciates - she's had to do some really wild birds, so birds like mine are a nice change of pace, I'd bet.

Passed the inspection and all that. She said that she HAS had people fail. Which is kind of terrible, since you fail for the birds' living conditions being really bad.

Ciara was fascinated with her blue gloves again this year, haha.

 

[duluthralphie]

Testing is done! It went well. No one had pullorum, and the swabs for AI will be sent out for testing.

I only got covered in bird blood once, and all the birds were well-behaved and held nicely still. Which my tester appreciates - she's had to do some really wild birds, so birds like mine are a nice change of pace, I'd bet.

Passed the inspection and all that. She said that she HAS had people fail. Which is kind of terrible, since you fail for the birds' living conditions being really bad.

Ciara was fascinated with her blue gloves again this year, haha.

You don’t test your own birds?

 

[Pyxis]

You don’t test your own birds?

Nope!

I'm not sure if they'd even allow it here to be honest, because of the inspection requirements.

 

[Tooshay89]

So, I set my duck eggs in my incubator on March 31st at 10am. I usually start the next day as day "one" (completion of day one.) So with that calculation, they'd be due on Tuesday, April 28th, right? I was going to lock down the eggs tomorrow morning (day 25) but when I candled this evening two of the six remaining eggs were already pipped, and all of them were pipped into the air cell internally. Yikes. Did I screw this up?

I just upped the humidity and took them out of the turner. I feel like an idiot.

 

[duluthralphie]

Nope!

I'm not sure if they'd even allow it here to be honest, because of the inspection requirements.

The inspection is done separately from the testing.

Our testers are trained by the state and can test anyone’s birds, including their own. I test mine and 3 other flocks.

The inspector is a vet or a vet tech that works for the state or USDA. My inspector is a USDA vet.

If she isn’t over loaded she will help me test mine, which I like, as it is a lot of work alone.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

So, I set my duck eggs in my incubator on March 31st at 10am. I usually start the next day as day "one" (completion of day one.) So with that calculation, they'd be due on Tuesday, April 28th, right? I was going to lock down the eggs tomorrow morning (day 25) but when I candled this evening two of the six remaining eggs were already pipped, and all of them were pipped into the air cell internally. Yikes. Did I screw this up?

I just upped the humidity and took them out of the turner. I feel like an idiot.

I actually lock down 5 days before hatch for this reason... no screw up. Ducks just do their own thing

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

We made it in one piece!!! Longest 1.5hrs drive of my life

 

[Pyxis]

I finally have a baby pigeon! After my pair failing repeatedly, we decided that something might be underlying, so I treated them with Baytril and dewormed them. My hen laid two eggs when previously she kept laying only one. One egg was infertile, likely a result of the Baytril, but the second was fertile and it hatched today!

Good thing I was optimistic and ordered bands