What did you do with your flock today?

[ChicksnMore]

This made me smile

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[TropicalBabies]

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I love this ♡♡♡

 

[kurby22]

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Cute!!!

 

[kurby22]

Well @kurby22 I guess and think that is good news ... tuff not having answers or knowing what you are up against but im sure you must feel more hopeful.

IDK @ChicksnMore seems there are a lot of people on this sight managing MG. If it can pass with a house finch or sparrow will you be able to protect the rest of your flock? I love that @kurby had good success with the vax. It is a hard call.

My next flock is going to live in a biodome and I am going to live in it with them.

Yeah frustrating to not know what is going on. I reread JoJos report again looking for any mention of bursas for AVL evidence too and not one mention. So weird! I’m with you—biodome!!

 

[upper20s]

Hello! This is a place to post pictures/talk about what you and your flock have done today.

I was on a zoom call earlier and Iris, my rooster, decided to stand behind me and crow repeatedly. Thankfully I was on mute, but it was still annoying. They couldn’t see him, but they could see me trying to make him quiet, which was a little embarrassing.
Here’s a pic of my boy with some mini roses.
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What about you guys? Have you done anything interesting with your flock today?

Here are a few pictures of my birds.
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I cleaned bums of new baby chicks! I kept them in a large container for their first two days and 17 had pasty bums.I usually start them at 90 degree but decided to pay attention to rules and do heat degree 95. I think that's what caused the pasty behinds! too much heat. What do you guys think?

 

[TropicalBabies]

I cleaned bums of new baby chicks! I kept them in a large container for their first two days and 17 had pasty bums.I usually start them at 90 degree but decided to pay attention to rules and do heat degree 95. I think that's what caused the pasty behinds! too much heat. What do you guys think?

Congratulations on babies ♡♡♡ 95° makes my butt pasty too!
I like mine to be able to self regulate so they can move into the heat when needed and move out of areas that are too hot.

 

[upper20s]

Congratulations on babies ♡♡♡ 95° makes my butt pasty too!
I like mine to be able to self regulate so they can move into the heat when needed and move out of areas that are too hot. I have a 5 ft round horse water the stainless steel ones that are hip high they have plenty of room now. I'm running back and forth to keep check temperature. I tried to put metal bars on top with a quilt over top of it and the heat shot up so now they're on the back porch with the metal over top of them for safekeeping and cardboard on top of the metal I'm using my garden heating pads underneath the straw and I've got one 250 watt light bulb in there so like half of it is temperature holding the other half is the wild west they're having a ball running around flapping their wings makes me want to flap My wings!

 

[FBMcrazy8]

Spent some time with my birds this afternoon. Needed some positive energy and sun shine. I could sit out here with them all day!

Some much needed time! Looks like it was a beautiful day for you. And they are just beautiful babies!

 

[PopoMyers]

Biodome would have saved me from the torture of the past couple days, which I did not get to do anything with the flock. Caught a norovirus, and I wouldn't wish this on anyone..The achiness was the worst I've ever experienced, fever, and now the other symptoms (gastro) have arrived. DH took care of the letting them out and gathering eggs. So sad to hear about all the disease issues that are happening.

 

[Shetland lover]

Wow really?? That has me really pondering…most all of my big chickens flock has gotten fowl pox and the ones that got it bad all died eventually. That’s really got me wondering if it’s possible the fowl pox brought the lymphoma? It could also be coincidental timing, but both rounds of loss came after a fowl pox episode. Nohope and several others had fowl pox back in September/October. My bantams haven’t gotten pox for some reason, it’s so far only hit the birds in the big chicken run. One of my very first birds I lost to what we assumed was fowl pox because several others had it bad, but it really didn’t present like normal pox so I have always wondered…Ms Pretty got all the lesions on her face and neck along with a couple on her comb. I thought she was bit by a spider of some kind because the lesions grew but never were infected and she got progressively thinner and then died. :-( If the fowl pox can carry this other strain is it possible that you’d see that visual lymphoma like reaction fairly soon after exposure? How long do they have pox before the scabs are visible?

This was Ms Pretty - these showed up on her face and then I found similar lumps in her feather follicles. Everyone shortly after she looked like this got a bad case of fowl pox and I lost Ms Pretty, Marianne, and Eevee. Both Eevee and Marianne got wet pox :-( This years round of pox was really mild seeming as only 2-3 birds showed evidence of it. Nohope and Bruno and one hen but I can’t recall which one. Anyway, I wonder if I could get them tested for the reticuloendotheliosis? I’m sure they don’t run that type of test in necropsy without more money. $25 is likely the bare minimum necropsy. You are a wealth of chicken knowledge @Shetland lover Thanks for the info!
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Do you have any photos of the affected feather follicles? I'm not 100% sure that is fowl pox in the picture, they're usually raised, crusty scabs and that looks quite sunken to me. It's hard to tell from a photo though.
How did the 'pox' develop? Did it start out as pale lumps which went yellowish then scabbed over after 3-4 days?
There is a cutaneous form of Mareks which produces pox-like lesions and infects the feather follicles too.
We're it not for the fact that it spread, I'd have thought some kind of injury too, especially as there looks to be swelling around the affected area.
How long did Ms Pretty survive after the pox marks appeared? )She lived up to her name, btw)
Reticuloendotheliosis is a rare virus but it does sometimes affect domestic flocks.