Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chickielady]

Thanks CL. When you say I may not need to worry as long as they are separate, do you mean permanently or for a quarantine period? With the heat of the last 2 weeks since culling I'm hoping that it's died off in our environment but I know the girls that shared the tractor but remained well could be carriers for life - so I thought they could infect new birds I bring in. I am really hopeful that basically by doing what you did (culling the sick birds) that it won't crop up again. Only time will tell.
Thanks!

Ok, here is a link you should bookmark, and use it often.
I do.
If you scroll down the list to the end, there is a comparison chart that is also useful.
With MG, you can cross-contaminate other birds by the disease-carrying birds (that survive) and apparently with contaminated equipment.
Anyways, you can read more here on this site:

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044

 

[JulesChicks]

Ok, here is a link you should bookmark, and use it often.
I do.
If you scroll down the list to the end, there is a comparison chart that is also useful.
With MG, you can cross-contaminate other birds by the disease-carrying birds (that survive) and apparently with contaminated equipment.
Anyways, you can read more here on this site:

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044

Thank you for the link, I will keep it handy. However, I have already researched MG extensively and was just looking for your first hand experience with it - whether or not you culled your entire flock and started over or introduced new birds that did not become infected, etc. Thanks again.

 

[Erren]

Hey everybody welcome to THE NEW WA thread. Hope to see the same peeps and hope we can continue as we were!!!

Anybody in Washington have chickens for sale?

 

[CarolynF]

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Hi Erren, and welcome!

I know several people in Okanogan county that have good birds. @DaveOmak is one and he stops by here from time to time. There's also a good breeder in Brewster called "Just Fowling Around". You can google them and take a look at their website. What breeds are you looking for? And there are lots of us on the west side of the cascades, too. One of my friends will be selling a bunch of Barnevelders soon. Beautiful birds!

 

[Carolei]

p.s. Love Rosie's color!

Isn't she/he a beauty? I'm so sad that I won't be able to keep him if he's a boy

 

[Chickielady]

Thanks CL. When you say I may not need to worry as long as they are separate, do you mean permanently or for a quarantine period? With the heat of the last 2 weeks since culling I'm hoping that it's died off in our environment but I know the girls that shared the tractor but remained well could be carriers for life - so I thought they could infect new birds I bring in. I am really hopeful that basically by doing what you did (culling the sick birds) that it won't crop up again. Only time will tell.
Thanks!

This is true, if any birds come down with it, cull.
And hopefully this is the end of it !
Best wishes !!!

 

[Chickielady]

What happened to our rain we were "likely" to have ???

I really wish it would haul off & shower all day, once a week !!!

 

[melliesdr]

Hey there BYCers!

My wife and I are the proud owners of five chickens! We've had them for a few months now and I've just finished up their run, their coop was done a month ago. I'm going to put some bedding in tomorrow and from what I've read sand seems like a good option.

All that being said my wife and I have never owned chickens, and we're also new to the Pacific Northwest! We live on a ranch like property in Western Washington by Portland Oregon. I'm just wondering if anyone has any thoughts, tips or things I should be particularly aware of raising chickens in an area that is rainy for so many months of the year.

I have a 6x15 ft. run and about 7.5 ft. of it is covered with metal roofing to give them a bit of moisture relief and shade. Other than that I'm stoked to be part of your community and I'm looking forward to my new hobby!

 

[KelsT]

Welcome! Sounds like a nice set up.

 

[JulesChicks]

Hey there BYCers!

My wife and I are the proud owners of five chickens! We've had them for a few months now and I've just finished up their run, their coop was done a month ago. I'm going to put some bedding in tomorrow and from what I've read sand seems like a good option.

All that being said my wife and I have never owned chickens, and we're also new to the Pacific Northwest! We live on a ranch like property in Western Washington by Portland Oregon. I'm just wondering if anyone has any thoughts, tips or things I should be particularly aware of raising chickens in an area that is rainy for so many months of the year.

I have a 6x15 ft. run and about 7.5 ft. of it is covered with metal roofing to give them a bit of moisture relief and shade. Other than that I'm stoked to be part of your community and I'm looking forward to my new hobby!

I like the Deep litter method for the coop and run. You can search for it on here, there are whole threads about it. Basically you can put leaves, cut grass, wood chips, shavings down in the run and the chickens will pick through it. Give it a turn once in a while and add more litter if it get stinky. This will compost in place and keep the ground from compacting and being barren. You can remove the composted litter after a while and add it to your garden and then add new litter. Much healthier for the soil, ground and chickens than sand in my opinion- helps to promote healthy organisms in the soil and it's much less labor intensive than raking poop out of sand regularly. But I'm lazy like that . Also, I hear sand wi smell after a while even when you keep the poop out of it.
Good luck!
Ps for the coop we're doing deep litter along with poop boards and Sweet PDZ in the poop boards (those are being built today). You can look up the thread started by Thespoiledchicken for more about the boards.