Well I had some good news. The eggs in my inubator from @TJChickens are safe. A vet said that MS wouldn't transfer from egg to egg or unhatched egg to hatched chick, so I had someone come collect the hatched D'Uccles and the eggs and transport them to a new home and bator away from my place. 7...
They got bubbles in their eyes and nasal discharge, wheezing, sneezing and lethargy.
be fore that we had a raccoon break into their run and kill my oldest hen. My solution was to lock them in their coop at night and let them out in the morning until we got the run reinforced. Their coop is...
Thanks. I believe the state vet is going to advise to breed for resistance, which I feel is best since we have many people up here who I suspect have positive flocks but have never tested for it. A lot of people post asking for advice on treating chicken "colds" but don't test to find out what...
I've got 4 D'uccle chicks out.
I wish I were happier about it, but my chickens just got confirmed as having LT and MS so I don't know if these little ones are going to catch MS now too from sharing the incubator with my eggs. A fifth one is clearly stuck in the shell with a partial zip and I...
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I have talked to the people who wanted chicks from me and at least one is still interested regardless of the results, she has had some respiratory issues in her flock already so she knows how to deal with them. I may try and find an MG pos home for all these chicks...
I don't think I'm going to be able to stay in this HAL.
I'm waiting to here from the state vet about whether or not my chickens have MG, if they do I may end up destroying my incubating eggs.
I've lost one pullet to the illness and I culled one and sent it for a necropsy, I'm waiting for...