Sally's GF3 thread

[Sally PB]

Button wanted to lay her egg in her "favorite" nest. Widget was already in it.

Button, Widget is two years older than you are. She has right of lay.

Too late, I already quit my day job.

 

[Sally PB]

The local news said a commercial flock in Ionia County, MI tested positive for HPAI. I'm guessing it's Herbrucks, the big egg farm, but I don't know. In any case, it's making me nervous.

I'll be watching the evening news, that's for sure.

 

[Sally PB]

"GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The state has found avian influenza at a commercial poultry farm in Ionia County.

This is the fourth confirmed case of highly pathogenic avian influence (HPAI) at a commercial poultry operation in Michigan since 2022, and the first in Ionia County, according to a Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development news release.

"To protect other flocks, the state said the premises are under quarantine and “the birds will be depopulated.” The state did not release the name of the farm."

If it is Herbrucks, they are a huge egg producing facility.

 

[Sally PB]

I posted more info about the AI found in Michigan
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...south-carolina.1507893/page-180#post-27629891

I'm nervous, for sure. My chickens will remain, as always, under cover. There isn't anything more I can do.

Herbruck's has had fires at their facility not once, but twice. I don't know which one, if it was the same, or what happened other than the snippet that was in the news a few years ago. I'm not impressed with their safety protocol, though.

 

[Sally PB]

Grey and gloomy today. I really want to get peas and greens planted in the garden, and have a lot of work I want to do before I do that.

But I don't want to do it in the rain at 38 degrees!

 

[Sally PB]

Tonight we have a bee club meeting. Because it's 45+ minutes away, we'll make it an errand run and dinner out as well.

Hubby has new glasses to pick up.

I want to go to Flowerland and check out their potted plants. Their website says they have Trumpet Vine, and if so, I will pay the $$ if they look like they'll bloom this year. They can take 3-5 years to bloom, I guess, if they're started from seed. I bought a small one at TSC, but I want blooms this year. Bee-cause the bees love them! (ha ha)

Yes, I have read that they are invasive. If they get unruly out in the field and fight with the brome grass, well, more power to 'em! But I don't think they'll get the upper hand here, with our winters.

I'm also hoping they have Purple Coneflower and New England Aster. My NEA seeds seem very hesitant to sprout.

 

[cavemanrich]

Hubby has new glasses to pick up.

You drive,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[fuzzi]

"GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The state has found avian influenza at a commercial poultry farm in Ionia County.

This is the fourth confirmed case of highly pathogenic avian influence (HPAI) at a commercial poultry operation in Michigan since 2022, and the first in Ionia County, according to a Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development news release.

"To protect other flocks, the state said the premises are under quarantine and “the birds will be depopulated.” The state did not release the name of the farm."

If it is Herbrucks, they are a huge egg producing facility.

I found out how they "depopulate", and it's despicable, cruel.

 

[Sally PB]

Yeah. I've read a couple of articles on how it's done.

 

[Sally PB]

Pip has laid another membrane-only egg, and it's a big one. And another lash egg, bigger than the first. I didn't take pictures. Button, another one of the pullets, really likes to eat eggs when she finds a broken one, and I had to get it out of there intact.

I'll be starting another round of lotus leaf extract and calcium citrate.

I'd seen Pip in her favorite nest box, and she might have laid a normal egg, but I don't know for sure.