J2AKChickens
In the Brooder
- Feb 3, 2023
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Hello All,
I had a few questions regarding the discovery of coccidiousis in our flock of show broilers for my daughters. We are treating them, but still losing at least one if not more a day. We started with 52 and are down to the low thirties if not high twenties. Show is is on March 28th and with the way things are looking we aren't sure they will each have 3 birds to show, but also they are still fairly small birds. What we are wondering is what size are broilers typically at a 4H show and is it really worth continuing with this project if we are still losing birds and they aren't growing very rapidly. Also, another major concern for us is that we do not want this to possibly sneak over an infect our layer hens, as those are more our pets and treated as such, we care for them very much. If anyone could offer us some advise on how you might handle this situation if you've been a long time broiler shower and have experience we would greatly appreciate the help. Sadly, our extention agent has not offered us much help and we feel like we are in a sink or swim situation and we've no clue which direction to even start. Thankfully, our daughters are very understanding of the situation and get that we might have to make some hard decisions, this project has not been overly enjoyable to them. Also, they don't want to risk our "fancy flock" as we call them. Again, any help is appreciated.
thank you,
Ashley
I had a few questions regarding the discovery of coccidiousis in our flock of show broilers for my daughters. We are treating them, but still losing at least one if not more a day. We started with 52 and are down to the low thirties if not high twenties. Show is is on March 28th and with the way things are looking we aren't sure they will each have 3 birds to show, but also they are still fairly small birds. What we are wondering is what size are broilers typically at a 4H show and is it really worth continuing with this project if we are still losing birds and they aren't growing very rapidly. Also, another major concern for us is that we do not want this to possibly sneak over an infect our layer hens, as those are more our pets and treated as such, we care for them very much. If anyone could offer us some advise on how you might handle this situation if you've been a long time broiler shower and have experience we would greatly appreciate the help. Sadly, our extention agent has not offered us much help and we feel like we are in a sink or swim situation and we've no clue which direction to even start. Thankfully, our daughters are very understanding of the situation and get that we might have to make some hard decisions, this project has not been overly enjoyable to them. Also, they don't want to risk our "fancy flock" as we call them. Again, any help is appreciated.
thank you,
Ashley