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[NWChicks]

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I thought the vaccine doesn't work on older chickens. It is only for right after hatch. Am I remembering wrong? My vet told me that I think.

It's best to vaccinate as early as possible because you want to get them before they're exposed to the virus. They need 10 days for the full effects of the vaccine to kick in so you have to be careful to keep them isolated for at least that long. The older they are the greater the chance that they've been exposed. According to one veterinarian there are some studies that say it may be beneficial to vaccinate even when you know they've been exposed.

 

[T Hi]

Just got home from seeing the new Twilight movie Eclipse with my girls! I love that the like to drag old mom around for a girls night out! (Actually we do it alot) Great movie! I love to see little hottie Jacob every chance I can! '

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Quackers got to hang out with us most of the day in the yard today. So much for trying to reseed the lawn today! We did get lots more flowers planted! The ducks are loving the pots of lettuce that we planted for them a month ago!

Ok time for this old bag to hit the hay!

 

[justbugged]

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Do you know about the swap meet at the stadium on Oahu? It is held very Wednesday and Sundays. I love looking at all the tourist stuff that was being sold a lot less than the stores on Waikiki. Also if you can get up past the dole plantation, the town of Haleiwa just away north of there. There is a great Mexican restaurant there in the town square. There are chickens running around the square also. The town is very close to the North beach area, and there are green sea turtles that come out of the water to rest. I think that if I could live there I would choose to live on the North shore. There is also a great little store in the town of Waialua that is very cool. They make pure soap. It is the North Shore Soap Company. The store is located in the last part of the sugar mill. It is the only soap I have used now for at least the past 5 years. If they don't have a lot of tourist in the shop they sometimes give tours of the factory.

 

[LaSombra]

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when I went, I was young (21)... several years ago, but I remember going to the north shore. It was so much fun on the beach. Huge waves, people surfing, etc. Very different from Waikiki. We took a bus to get up there. It took quite a while, but it was interesting to see everything from on the bus, though. We stopped at a garden that was beautiful to walk through. I can't remember where exactly it was or anything, though

 

[TurtleChick]

hi all! once again been too long since i've checked in! argh! where does the time go, anyway???

i feel like all i've done for about the last year is complain about the weather.... "it's too hot!" "it's too cold!" "where is the sun????" "it's so dreary!!!!" i live in tacoma for crying out loud. we are not supposed to have weeks in the 100's OR weeks in the teens AND we ARE allowed to see the sun sometimes... for more than one day at a time.

my main reason for popping in: anyone near tacoma have any day old (or very close to day old) chicks, or know of any feed stores with any?

my broodies are driving me crazy, and with 3 of them i finally succumbed to temptation and got some fertile eggs for them to sit on. we are in the process of building a broody coop (all of my girls are brood-happy orpingtons) to use from time to time when one or more of the girls gets stubborn about sitting and sitting and sitting. BUT in the meantime, the other girls piling into and out of the nest box has resulted in two broken fertile eggs.

i'm hoping to find some chicks to slip under one or two of the girls but the only chicks i can find right now are a week old. anyone, anyone? feel free to PM me or respond here.

thanks all - hope everyone has a great fourth of july!!! be safe and have fun!

 

[justbugged]

Cool; I was a little worried about telling you about places that everyone had heard of before. I have been out to the Islands a number of times now with my DH. He has to work, so I let him. The best part is that he is working with local Islanders, and they like him a lot. He works as hard as they do if not harder and he isn't a threat to their jobs. It is the best of both worlds. So any way some of the wives have taken me to some great local places.
We usually stay on the west coast of the Island and try to avoid the Waikiki area. There is nothing wrong with it. It's just crowded and very commercial. There is world class shopping. Because DH is working, he always has a car for the week or two that his there. With the company paying for his flights, hotel, meals, and car, all I have to do is cash in airline miles for my flight. It is a blast. It's also a lot of fun listening to DH work while we sit on a empty beach, watching the whales off shore. (He spend more time on a phone than a teenage girl, and I don't care as long as he is getting paid for it.)
The most fun we had is when I planned for a day flight to the island of Kauai, and we tube the flume. You ride inter-tubes through five tunnels that were hand carve in the 1850's. (This is the same place as the evil bad pictures were taken of me from behind, while I was wearing a bathing suit.) But at the time I didn't know, so it is still the most fun I think I have ever had. Afterwards we went to a famous restaurant that is were the classic pictures of couples are taken with the sun set. I had made reservations far enough in advance that we had the best table in the house right at sunset.

I think if I was going to live out on the Islands I would still pick the Big Island. It has the biggest bio-diversity. I don't think I could ever get bored on that Island, even in a lifetime.

TurtleChick: I am going to have a possible day old chick next week. At least if it all works out. I had to stop and worry a little about the whole counting your chickens thing. But I will either need a couple of day old bantam chicks to go with it, or I am still not sure what will happen. The worse part of this is that the chick really belongs to another BYC member. it is her egg and my broody hens. So let me know if you come up with a good option for day old chicks. It is a OEB chick.

 

[justbugged]

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I can't go near Moses Lake. My parents live way to close in Ephrata, and I would have to go visit them.

I love them, but........ sometimes

, and then I have to

 

[Chickielady]

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I thought the vaccine doesn't work on older chickens. It is only for right after hatch. Am I remembering wrong? My vet told me that I think.

It's best to vaccinate as early as possible because you want to get them before they're exposed to the virus. They need 10 days for the full effects of the vaccine to kick in so you have to be careful to keep them isolated for at least that long. The older they are the greater the chance that they've been exposed. According to one veterinarian there are some studies that say it may be beneficial to vaccinate even when you know they've been exposed.

Thanks for explaining that, and the reason why we were going to do Newcastle and Fowl Pox is we just moved back here, from North Idaho to Northern California and now finally back home in Western Washington.
Down "there" West Nile and Newcastle and Parvo (for puppies) and heart worms in dogs (thanks also to the mosquitos) are wreacking havoc all over....Up here in Pacific County my vet has advised that out in the woods like we are, Leptosporosis is very very previlent and she advised I speak to a 'bird' vet about the bird diseases...BUT, since speaking with Pips and Peeps, we are not going to do Fowl Pox, as we are not planning any more travels or showing any of our birds out of this clime.
OK with me, vaccinating this many birds is stresssful, but not that hard to do.
Still, I am so glad it is over now and we do not have to worry about them getting Marek's.
It is funny with all the mosquitos here you would think West Nile is more previlent.
In Clearlake, Northern California, every early summer there is massive (massive!) bird kills all around the lake, brought in by the mosquitos and hordes of migrating grebe, loons, herons and ducks.
From West Nile and Avian flu...
It was so bad year last(down there) that volunteers were asked to help net and bag thousands of dead floating waterfowl all around this huge lake, the smell all around the lake was so nasty....

 

[Chickielady]

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Thankyou !
They are all doing great !
You should see how big this momma can get when she puffs up, and hides everyone of those chicks so you can not see one of them anywhere...then all of a sudden you see 20 tiny chicken feet drop under her and she looks like she has so many tiny feet.
This cold is not good, but they have a heat lamp, and mom is right there if they need to warm they dive into her feathers and almost 'swim' in her feathers.

 

[Chickielady]

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What are you doing in Moses Lake ??????
It sounds like eveyone else is going to Honalulu and you are going to Moses Lake

Going fishing ?