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Oh, I've never let people just come even into my backyard. When I have sold or traded, I met them somewhere else. Only a couple of good friends of mine I've gone to their house and they have come to mine.
 
I also quarantine birds in the front the yard, my other birds are in the backyard. I used to have free rangers in my back yard, but not anymore. Now that we have guineas that go back and forth between the front and back yard, I haven't gotten any adult chickens. I guess if I did. I'd have to quarantine in the garage. Otherwise the guineas would probably spread anything all over the place.
 
ameliadanielle said:
I also know that even if birds seem healthy... they could still be sick, just have good food and care and no stress and you can't tell.
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But, you're borrowing trouble here. If there have never been ANY symptoms, EVER, they are healthy. It's about 99.9% certain, at least as far as contagions go. Sure, hens can be laying internally for a long time and you are unaware, eventually you'll see signs of her impending demise. But, that is not contagious, just a common reproductive malfunction, though mostly of hatchery stock, not good quality breeder stock, in my experience.


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speckledhen said:
Do you have a strong disinfectant like Virkon-S or Oxine to use around your coops? If not, get one! And make EVERYONE spray their shoes...
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What about old fashioned disinfectants like ammonia for shoes? I wouldn't necessarily want to use it for the coop because of fumes and sensitive avian respiratory systems, but for disenfecting shoes after a trip to the feed store?
 
gunner86 said:
my eggs have been in the incubator for 3 days now. I though the power was going to go out last night with all the storms I was a nervous wreck.
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Do you have a UPS for your computer? Maybe next time you could plug your incubator into that before you get started with it. Don't know how much power an incubator draws, but it might last long enough to keep the heat up til they could get the power back on.
 
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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I got a brother down in Thomasville. He's not a member here, though.
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eclecktic1 said:
What about old fashioned disinfectants like ammonia for shoes? I wouldn't necessarily want to use it for the coop because of fumes and sensitive avian respiratory systems, but for disenfecting shoes after a trip to the feed store?
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Shoes, maybe, but it's of limited use. Ammonia won't kill almost every virus, bacteria and fungus, plus you have the heavy fumes. It will, however, kill the oocysts that cause cocci while bleach will not. Commercial chicken houses use Virkon-S to disinfect and you can add Oxine to drinking water as well as mist a solution of it in a cool mist vaporizer for your birds to breath in to kill off the nasties in their nasal passages and lungs. So, ammonia has limited usage. You could use it for shoes, but I don't think I would trust it. Virkon-S comes in concentrated tablets that each make one pint of solution for a spray bottle. It's cheaper to ship than Oxine, which comes only as a liquid.

https://smile.amazon.com/DuPont-Vir...d=1490224487&sr=8-1&keywords=Virkon-S+tablets

 
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speckledhen said:
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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Don't hold back, Hen, tell us how you REALLY feel.
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