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I'm ordering chicks from a small farm that doesn't vaccinate their birds. They go to great lengths to keep their flocks isolated and free of disease, including making sure they don't come in contact with wild birds. However, the...
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I am going to be administering marek’s vax at home with my newly hatched chicks at home. We are raising a heritage meat chicken flock and don’t want to lose them to mareks halfway to the finish line.
We are only looking to hatch out 20-30 at a time and I don’t want to drop $40 on a...
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I've been a small flock backyard chicken keeper and member here for 10 years. Have always appreciated being able to use this site and your collective experiences/advice as my first go-to resource! It's been a doozy of a year. :( A year ago...
Hi, recently one of my 2 year old hens passed away after a necropsy and testing another hen. Both tests show that have/had mereks disease. I know most people typically vaccinate chicks as soon as possible, unfortunately in this case I do not believe they were vaccinated.
I’ve seen a lot of back...
Hello all, brand new chicken Mama here.
I just hatched 2 Rhode Island White chicks 6 days ago. On the first day, I vaccinated them with New Castle (ND) Hitchner B1, in the form of eye drops, everything went well.
On the fourth day, I vaccinated them again using ND La Sota (eye drops) and since...
I haven't found a clear answer to this one. Our baby chickens (b. June 17, 2023) appear to have fowlpox. Older chickens have either had it before or have been vaccinated.
Only three of the 18 babies have lesions at this point, but since everyone is together, it is safe to assume everyone is...
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This is my first post and I wanted to use it to clear out some doubts about fowl pox.
First of all, an 8 week old plymouth hen started to show little black scabs on her comb and eyes 5 days ago, so I immediately proceeded to isolate her from the rest of the flock. I have...
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I’m new to the forum but have been digging around online without much luck on this topic. I have my first group of chickens this year. They are all adults and living in a fully enclosed coop and run. No outside animals or birds can enter their area (have them set up this way due to...
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I have a happy, seemingly healthy young chick born mid April. She showed a few black spots on her comb. One quickly became inflamed and scabbed over. Now she has one on her eye and one on her chest. They get bigger daily. Is this fowl pox? If so, do I just use the sprays or vaccinate? If...
Anyone know if there’s a vaccine for this thing available? Internet search has more or less failed me, various sites say there is a vaccine for some strains, but I can’t find where to find it either.
I’d ask a vet but the only one I know that’s decent isn’t hardly available and the others are...
I live in central Arkansas in a densely wooded area.
No matter how much we have battled the woods I feel like the mosquitoes are getting worse every year.
I get torn up by them anytime I’m around the coop (or anywhere on the property actually) and I’m worried about my chickens getting Fowl...
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I am Coco, a chicken lover, with a flock of 4 chickens: 2 roosters and 2 hens, you can find our adventures here: https://www.instagram.com/inaripati/
Saturday, for the third time, my vet vaccinated my birds with LaSota vaccine against NewCastle Disease. I have no idea if it is related to...
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Last July I lost my dearest hen to Marek’s. Fast forward to now, and I’ve since lost 3 more hens (out of 13) - a 1 year old brahma, 4 year old speckled sussex, and her daughter, a 15 week old RIR/speckled sussex mix. All were unvaccinated.
Since the last loss, things seem to be...
Hi! My hen hasn’t been doing well, so after taking her to the vet, I was sent home with some Baytril injections to give her intramuscularly.
When I went to give her the first injection in her breast, her pectorals were basically nonexistent. She’s incredibly thin and her keel is so sharp :( I...
Hi I am a little confused and trying to get information about Newcastle vaccine used for Southern California Chickens.
We have a small group of 3 year old chickens near Long Beach, CA. I am wondering if it would help to get my flock the Newcastle vaccine to help prevent it from coming our way...
Hello,
Does anyone know anything about the innovax-nd-ibd vaccine which covers Mareks, Newcastle, and Bursal? I've read about it online but cannot find it to buy. Here's the link:
https://www.innovax-vaccines.com/innovax-vaccine-protection/innovax-nd-ibd/
Many thanks,
Joyce
New here, so I apologize if I didn't look hard enough for an answer to my quandary. I've been dealing with duck plague for the past 2 months. I had several ducks, and they came down with duck plague. I separated off several males because I had too many and took them to live on a plantation...
I've read that the most effective Marek's vaccines are given with a double needle while the chick is still in the egg. Does anyone know which hatcheries vaccinate this way? Anyone? Bueller?
I only know about Vikon Farms (...
I've read that the most effective Marek's vaccines are given with a double needle while the chick is still in the egg. Does anyone know which hatcheries vaccinate this way? Anyone? Bueller...