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  1. Bkaye

    Sewing Thread!

    I use a file cabinet and wrap my fabric around comic book boards. It works really well. I have a standard file cabinet as well as a lateral. If I have fill bolts of fabric they fit in the lateral.
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    Sewing Thread!

    I can kinda see that. It turned out a lot better than I thought it would.
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    Sewing Thread!

    Thanks! My husband actually picked out the colors.
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    Sewing Thread!

    Got my quilt top finished up this weekend. It’s gone in my waiting to be quilting pile now. Going to start working on some Halloween placemats this weekend.
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    I had a friend make some a couple years ago and have the husband and I a jar to try. Neither of us are tomato fans unless they are cooked in something. It wasn’t bad. Better than I expected, didn’t have much of a tomato flavor at all but it has a flavor that is hard to describe.
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    We made pear preserves last week. Going to get more pears this weekend and get another canned batch canned as well as pear jelly. Grapes are starting to come off good so will get a few flats of grape juice canned as well soon.
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    EMERGENCY - TRYING TO HELP A FRIEND

    Iirc when I did it, for them to send the testing materials out to me was around 20 bucks. Between the test kit, overnighting it to the company and the testing fee we were under 80 dollars.
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    EMERGENCY - TRYING TO HELP A FRIEND

    When I first started dealing with it I gave my symptomatic birds a chance. From my experience they only declined. Also symptomatic birds shed the virus at a very very rapid pace. So now when I have a symptomatic bird showing paralysis I cull. I don’t want my birds to suffer and I don’t want to...
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    EMERGENCY - TRYING TO HELP A FRIEND

    I have heard that as well but some strains are worse than others. I understand how you feel. I started with chickens in March of 2022, we got our Marek’s diagnosis the January 2023. I believe we lost one other bird a couple months prior from Marek’s. She developed what we originally thought...
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    EMERGENCY - TRYING TO HELP A FRIEND

    From what I remember my youngest so far started at around 12 weeks. Stressful events are a big trigger. Most of my losses has been around pol and close to a year old for my boys. I have a bad strain here and I have seen all three strains here with my birds.
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    EMERGENCY - TRYING TO HELP A FRIEND

    Oh and to answer your poop question. The only time with my flock the poop changes is when they go off food and start to waste away. Then it turns green. With Marek’s in my flock it reduces their immune system so I also have a problem with coccidiosis and enteritis which changes their poop when...
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    EMERGENCY - TRYING TO HELP A FRIEND

    I have Marek’s in my flock. We treated it as a vitamin deficiency before we had confirmed testing through RAL labs. It’s a mail order testing facility. I’m not saying it is or it isn’t Marek’s because only testing can confirm or deny. I will say that from my experience Marek’s doesn’t read a...
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    Coccidiosis? Or something else?

    Just pull the hairs back over her ears and give it a look. If it’s an ear infection there should be gunk in the ear canal that you will be able to see.
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    Coccidiosis? Or something else?

    Have you checked his ears? I would check his ears to see if maybe he has an ear infection. I’ve had a couple get ear infections and they always gape and shake their heads.
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    Avian diseases and fermented feed

    Thanks! That makes me feel better for the upcoming summer. I will say my girls seem to love it.
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    Avian diseases and fermented feed

    They have been doing pretty good. I’ve noticed since starting fermented feed they seem to respond to treatment better when coccidiosis flares up. I’ve lost one since starting ff but she was sick prior to starting and had gone blind. In my opinion it seemed to help and I plan to keep on with it...
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    Mareks

    Out of the birds I have my Brahmas have been my hardiest breeds in my lf and my cochins in my bantams. My Brahmas were also vaccinated, they are the only vaccinated birds I have right now. Belgium breeds for me have been my most susceptible. I have lost a D’uccle and a ton of D’anvers. I do...
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    Mareks

    I’ll also say that I have noticed that I have more secondary issues due to their compromised immune system. They seem to get coccidiosis at a drop of a dime and reguardless what treatment I use, I have to use multiple treatments for it to make a difference. This has been confirmed on fecal...
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    Mareks

    I believe so. Only some of my original birds were vaccinated. I bought my first from tsc and a few days later ordered more from meyers which were vaccinated. I’ve lost a couple from each group to things I’m sure was other than Marek’s, but I’ve also lost some from each group that I know were due...
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    Mareks

    I got my Marek’s diagnosis a year ago last January, I’ve lost many birds but I’ve also had birds survive and seem to be resistant so far. Out of my original birds I’ve lost 6, 2 of those were vaccinated. I hatched out 12 quail dancers the September before my diagnosis, I lost all 12 with the...
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