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lilwildrabbit said:
I beg to differ I think I'm a little farther south than you are lmbo if I wiz and the wind is right it will land in Florida lol I can actually say evetyone is north of me lol
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so you're basically admitting that you haven't outgrown the occasional 'I'm gonna go pee off the porch' yet......
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Welcome, Ruby and OneCrazyQuacker. I am fairly new here myself.

Miss Cynthia, if you're that far north in Fannin County, depending on where you are it would be easier for someone like me in northern Union County to go to NC and head south on 60 to get to you. Considering how winding these mountain roads are up here, that is. (Where I am is close to the Loving community.) Sort of the three lefts to make a right thing.

I getting excited. I have borrowed an incubator from a friend. Now I need to clean it up and get it running stable. Need to get a hygrometer and thermometer too.
 
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I got my Christmas present today I got a big box full of packing material and deep inside all that packet by was 30 eggs snugg as can be I don't think that a hurricane could have hurt an egg the were the best packed eggs I have seen kudos to chickadee hatchery for the love you put into every egg it shows you pack them with pride and want to make every egg count!!
 
eclecktic1 said:
Welcome, Ruby and OneCrazyQuacker. I am fairly new here myself.

Miss Cynthia, if you're that far north in Fannin County, depending on where you are it would be easier for someone like me in northern Union County to go to NC and head south on 60 to get to you. Considering how winding these mountain roads are up here, that is. (Where I am is close to the Loving community.) Sort of the three lefts to make a right thing.

I getting excited. I have borrowed an incubator from a friend. Now I need to clean it up and get it running stable. Need to get a hygrometer and thermometer too.
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Yup, I'm about 20 miles from Blairsville, a couple of ways to get here-can go down 515 to Hwy 60 through Mineral Bluff or from the NC side, either one.
 
speckledhen said:
I'll NEVER have the State of GA necropsy a bird again. The only time I did it, they cited one thing that I know killed her, a raging abdominal infection, probably EYP, then they drew a completely separate conclusion on the last preliminary diagnosis (never got a final). It made zero sense based on what I know about my flocks, so I sent the report to a vet I know in Kentucky, who is well-known in the thoroughbred community, but is also very well versed in treating chickens as well-my best friend had an Arabian mare and chickens and he treated both-he said the report was the biggest load of crap he'd ever seen, that there was absolutely NO way my bird had what they said it did and they did not test it, only drew a conclusion based on stuff they saw all the time. He also correctly said I'd probably never get a final diagnosis from them. Nope, never came and I'm not contacting them, either. I'm done.

So, I will never trust a state lab after what happened to me and I regret ever getting them involved in the first place. It started when I saw my first odd liver on a hen when I opened her up myself after she died unexpectedly. It could have been several things, but I had one particular thought about it. So, I had the next one to die, her half-sister, necropsied and that was the only reason, them dying so close together that way, being rather young. The state vet said, upon seeing a photo of the liver on the first hen, that she had one thing, while my Kentucky vet said it was entirely something different, coincidentally what I originally had believed it to be, and that the state guy was off-base on that one, too. Apparently, these labs have tunnel vision and can't see anything other than certain diagnoses, nothing out of the norm, so they just spout off something without actual testing, unnecessarily frightening backyard flock owners. From now on, I handle my own chicken necropsies as I did before the state lab debacle.

Though the state lab here will necropsy for free, you get what you pay for. They are all about commercial operations. Your backyard birds are not important to them so what if they give you an erroneous diagnosis?
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The guy that did mine was really nice. I hadn't ever sold any chickens at that point, so I told him I was planning on selling and trading a few and wanted to make sure they were clean by having her fully tested, as all my chickens free ranged together at that point. He said all tests done came back negative for any disease, and told me what she had died from. I never received any official report. Just contact from him through email. I assumed if they found any disease they probably would have showed up at my house and told me to put them all down. Since there are commercial chicken houses within a mile of my house.

That was over a year ago. Since the disastrous results with hatchery chicks... I'm thinking I should probably get mine tested again before I sell anything but don't really know who to contact to have that done. Other than the same department that did the necropsy.
 
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ameliadanielle said:
The guy that did mine was really nice. I hadn't ever sold any chickens at that point, so I told him I was planning on selling and trading a few and wanted to make sure they were clean by having her fully tested, as all my chickens free ranged together at that point. He said all tests done came back negative for any disease, and told me what she had died from. I never received any official report. Just contact from him through email. I assumed if they found any disease they probably would have showed up at my house and told me to put them all down. Since there are commercial chicken houses within a mile of my house.

That was over a year ago. Since the disastrous results with hatchery chicks... I'm thinking I should probably get mine tested again before I sell anything but don't really know who to contact to have that done. Other than the same department that did the necropsy.
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Not saying they weren't nice, just incompetent and not interested in making sure to get me a REAL diagnosis. Not all diseases require euthanasia, only a few. But, the lab conclusion was bogus and I'll never trust them again. What you're talking about is NPIP testing, I'd guess, but they only test for a couple of diseases that are already pretty much eradicated in this country, plus maybe Avian Influenza. There are a LOT of diseases they don't test for unless you pay for a quarterly test and those are the ones that are more important, like mycoplasmosis and coryza.

I do NOT want to be on the government radar, but maybe I am now that I had one bird tested a few years ago. I really wish I had not done that because all it did was cause me stress. Remember, the Dept of Ag is only here to support commercial flocks, big agri-biz. They truly don't care about your flock's health other than how it till impact commercial businesses.
 
speckledhen said:
Not saying they weren't nice, just incompetent and not interested in making sure to get me a REAL diagnosis. Not all diseases require euthanasia, only a few. But, the lab conclusion was bogus and I'll never trust them again. What you're talking about is NPIP testing, I'd guess, but they only test for a couple of diseases that are already pretty much eradicated in this country, plus maybe Avian Influenza. There are a LOT of diseases they don't test for unless you pay for a quarterly test and those are the ones that are more important, like mycoplasmosis and coryza.

I do NOT want to be on the government radar, but maybe I am now that I had one bird tested a few years ago. I really wish I had not done that because all it did was cause me stress. Remember, the Dept of Ag is only here to support commercial flocks, big agri-biz. They truly don't care about your flock's health other than how it till impact commercial businesses.
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That's why I assumed they would have actually tested mine for things and wanted my chickens put down if anything tested positive. Because some of those diseases can be blown by the wind a few miles. If my chickens got sick, it could infect the commercial folks. At the same time, if those chickens in the chicken house had anything airborne mine will probably have it too.
 

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