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  1. Before I post this update, I want to say this has been a learning experience for me. It has also been somewhat costly for me - but not nearly as costly as it could have been. Either way, maybe I can save others headaches and money, by posting threads as I learn. Onward. We have been busy. In the past few weeks, we have built a second chicken house, had one chicken end up with wry neck, moved the first flock of chicks out to the farm, and have started making plans for future housing for more birds - and extending the Chicken King's Empire throughout Cambodia! Okay, maybe that is a bit much. But, if we can house a few more birds here and there, the few extra bucks earned will be worth it. Our first babies - 60 of them in all (minus the one that was already at the farm, below), were moved to new digs on Tuesday, just under two weeks back. As you can see in the photo below, they made themselves at home right away: Anyway, if you recall, one of the chicks ended up with a case of Wry Neck (fotos in this post), prior to the transfer. I didn't have the heart to cull (kill) the little guy. (Dumb arse me.) So, we sent it out to the farm with the intention of keeping it isolated from the other chicks. This newbie (READ: That's me, the dumb arse) at keeping chickens found that to be a lesson to be learned, when one of Chan's relatives did the unthinkable, after we transferred the other 60 chicks to the farm. I won't make that mistake ever again. The cost is far too high, to allow one chick to possibly destroy an entire flock of birds. On the 26th of April, we dispatched the little guy. He / She was not doing well. We had transferred it to the farm on the 21st. So, folks, if you are considering raising chickens, especially any amount of birds you would NOT want to lose, do NOT keep a bird alive that could spread anything to the rest of the flock. It may cost you more than you will ever know. I certainly didn't want to lose 100 birds because of one. Lesson #1 learned. On a lighter note, here is a much cheaper lesson in efficiency and money saving. Some time back I purchased a large feed dispenser, trying to think ahead for when the birds were bigger. In the brooder / coop at the apartment, we primarily use feed trays, like the blue ones pictured below: But, I knew we would need something larger once the chicks were transferred to the farm and housed in a larger coop. It was a spur of the moment purchase that seemed like a good idea at the time. However, that dispenser really needs some modifications to its design, in order to stop the birds from spilling large quantities of food from it. Do not buy one of these dispensers. Trust me, here. Whether set on the ground, or hanging, it is not a very efficient way to feed the flock. Not to mention the birds jump on it, and in it, to feed. They drop litter all in the feed as well. Lesson #2 learned. This is the dispenser I am talking about: So, while online a day or two ago, I noticed that someone had posted an image on a friend's Facebook wall. It happened to be a chicken feeder made from PVC pipe. I had seen these types of feeders before, but had not really given much attention to them. We went to the farm yesterday (Saturday). It just so happened that Chan's mom mentioned how much the birds jump on and in the feeder, causing it to spill valuable feed - in no small quantities. (The birds had spilled so much feed, that the family ended up putting a plastic sheet down to catch the feed. Amazing. I had just the answer to this little issue. It was a simple design that I remembered seeing the day or so before. I figured we could make up one or two and try them out at the farm. We did and they work well. Here is the information and photos of the PVC chicken feeders: 1 - 4 meter length of 4" Schedule 40 PVC pipe. 2 - 90 degree elbows, 4" Schedule 40 PVC. 2 - 45 degree elbows, 4" Schedule 40 PVC. 1 - small can of PVC glue (which I ended up not using). Total cost, $13.00 USD. I will pick up two more elbows (1 - 45 and 1 - 90 degree) so we can make one more feeder from the left over pipe at the farm.
  2. The above quote couldn't have been posted at a more appropriate time. You recall we had one chick sent to the farm to be watched, and isolated from the other birds? Keep that in mind a few minutes, please. So, this morning, up before first light and the chickens. We planned on taking the chicks to the farm this morning, and wanted to do so before it got too hot. A bit late starting out, as we had to stop by a supply store and pick up a couple of rolls of chicken wire to finish off the new digs at the farm. Got 'em all boxed up, meds and vitamins packed, food packed, larger water and food dispensers packed and ready to go. Off we went down the road. Arrived before the sun was too high in the morning sky. We unloaded the birds, took the boxes into the new (walk in) chicken house, and opened 'em up. Three boxes, three Khmers, unloading and counting. 60 birds? Check, 60 birds present. (One in seclusion, isolated, if you recall above.) Man, were they happy! Diggin' around in the cool dirt to have a bath in. Not nearly as hot there, as it is here. Even had a nice breeze blowing there. So, those chicks are going to be quite happy. Anyway, we (READ: I) noticed one of the large water dispensers (that you hang from the ceiling) was cracked and definitely would leak. So, off the boss and I went to get another one to replace it with. Got back, filled the water with pretty fresh rain water from the storage tanks, and I put it in the chicken house. Sitting there, watching the flock, I started to feel a bit bad, because I had not even checked on the little guy who had Wrye Neck, a few nights before. So, I asked Chan if the isolated chick had any water and food. She, in turn, asked the family, rather than going and looking. The next news I got, chilled me to the bone, and pissed me off beyond belief. Yep. Sure enough. "Paul, he put the chick in with the others after we left to get the water dispenser." After throwing everything from my hands, picking up and throwing a chair, and raising my voice enough so they could hear it in Phnom Penh, I asked her why in hell he would have done such a stupid thing? She said she didn't know he would do it. He didn't know the chick was supposed to be isolated. So, you come home from the land (they were planting crops before this morning when he returned home), see this one chick off by himself, and say, "Boy, wouldn't he like to be in with his friends?!" That, is, rather than querying yourself, and then others, as to why a chick would be in isolation away from the rest of the flock. Either way, he came over, walked inside the chicken house, looks at the birds, and picks one from the 61 birds walking and laying around their new digs. Ya know, I am curious here. I wonder how in hell he would have a clue as to which, specific bird was the one with wrye neck, especially since the bird had shown NO symptoms in over two days. In my mind, I feel that we just played the lotto - or would that be Russian Roulette? And, we will not know if we won, or splattered our brains all over the floor, very soon. I tell ya, I begin to think they are ready for the next step, and then they prove what an idiot I am for thinking such a stupid thing in the first place. They simply, without a doubt, without a second thought, have no clue as to what they need to do, in order to properly provide for the chickens. Of course, if they lose them all, why should they care? They have zero dollars invested. I am the rich foreigner who can afford to start this all over again. Yeah, right. I have a headache. I just walked over to the motorbike, started it up, and drove off toward home. I am here now, and need some rest to cope with this. A couple more photos:
  3. Okay. So, I finally got hold of the vaccination for the birds I am now raising. But, first, we did drop by one place, and rang the other supplier, to ask if they had in fact vaccinated the birds prior to us receiving them. Both said they did. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't - I don't know for sure. However, there is NO doubt, I am talking zero doubt here, that they have not been vaccinated now. I know, because we did it today, for sure. The stuff comes in two bottles, kept refrigerated until mixed. Here is what you get when you buy the "Var'ceen (វ៉ាក់សាំង) or VARK'SUNG": One bottle is pure liquid. The other is some sort of crystals. Take a needle and plunger, stick it in the liquid bottle and fill the plunger. Take it out, inject it into the bottle of crystals and fill that bottle mostly full. Shake it until well mixed. Fill the plunger with the mixture, remove it from that bottle and inject, and fill the previous bottle (the one with all the liquid). Repeat until all the crystals have dissolved and have been mixed with the liquid, and have been transferred to the larger bottle with the liquid in it. Shake. Insert the little injector / dispenser thingy (the third item in the photo above). Grab one chick and hold it so it's head is turned with its eye facing you. Gently squeeze one drop into the bird's eye. Turn the bird's head (or its entire body) over and repeat. Total cost for both items and the injector / dispenser thingy was 7,500r or just under $2.00 USD. This mixture will treat up to 100 birds to prevent Newcastle disease from being spread to them.
  4. Firstly, you gotta love living in SE Asia - a junkies haven. Go to the farm supply place and get a syringe and needle, no questions asked, dispensed to anyone that comes in. The same at Pharmacies around the country, I'd bet. Anyway, the issue I have is a calculation for vitamins. It's a 100 ml container - bottle. It reads, "One part (20 ml) to 40 liters of water." This is for "Normal Conditions". It reads, "One part (20 ml) to 20 liters of water." This is for "Intensive Conditions". Both mixes are to be fed to them 3 to 5 days per week. My first question is, what would be considered "Intensive Conditions"? Second question - more of a concern here is, please verify my math here. 20 ml to 40 liters would be 100 ml to 200 liters. So, this should be 1/2 ml to 1 liter for normal conditions and 1 ml to 1 liter for intensive conditions, right? Just making sure here.
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