It adds a layer of complexity I'd rather not have to consider, but now it's here I just have to manage it. I'm lucky really because @Shadrach 's signature had sunk in "Quarantine, it shouldn't be an option," so I put the new pullets into quarantine on arrival, which seems to have contained the...
I also looked into that option and found it really hard to find the farms' contact details, which is fair enough because they're in the food chain and can't have random people coming and going from their facilities, it's just not worth the risk, even for people like us who are well-intentioned.
The cost of the vial is off the charts. Well beyond what I can afford.
Would the hen and eggs be taken to the vet? On the right day of gestation for vaxing? With the hen biting everyone and possibly crunching an egg in her distress?
All that and the cost when people who are breeders...
It is, and because I now have Marek's in the environment, I can't risk at-home vaxing of chicks because they'd be at risk of picking it up before I can jab them (even if I could afford the vial and all the equipment). So it would have to be in ovum which is even trickier at home.
Sorry to...
That's true. I had held thoughts of RC's tough season throughout but I had forgotten about your's.
The plan to bring in only vaccinated sex-linked pullet chicks should reduce the number of hard seasons. No doubt the occasional cockerels and diseases will sneak through every now and then...
I'm sure there's a lot of truth in what you say. Naivety instead of unethical conduct. It's those who do know better (or should know better) I'm thinking of.
I'm slightly reeling from the most recent season.
From four eggs, four chicks, and three pullets there's one hen and one pullet left.
Two. Out of eleven.
I worked at home for most of today and I was very pleased to see Sarah following the flock. They led her into parts of the garden she had never seen before and she was very calm about all of it.
Aaand Sarah was not pecked at all this morning.
She was discouraged from eating near Peggy but she ran off before Peggy had even considered delivering a peck.