Hobbychicks91
In the Brooder
- Mar 14, 2023
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Mareks in your flock? Starting over after mareks? How to eradicate mareks? All of the things I have searched. Came up dry. I see thousands of comments (I have red everything online) from people saying “well it yours forever now, mareks will be there FOREVER” so I decided to research all I could, now run an experiment. Unlike all the other threads I’ve seen, I plan on updating this upon completion. It will definitely be awhile! I read a lot about how realistically mareks lasts in soil between 4 months and 1 year. People say “forever” a lot but not that’s not actually true. I did read the bit about it lasting for 7 years, but upon further investigation that was locked up in a coop on chicken dander, never seeing the sun or rain. I called a friend who is a local avian vet. She said after a year I should be golden. I ended up with mareks in my huge coop and huge run.
Step one I rehomed my birds to a mareks flock, very nice guy was excited about the birds I had that seemed to be immune as he has a positive flock. So they are off the property. Step two burn baby burn. The coop has been torched and went up like the 4th of July. Ashes to ashes. My husband took down all the fencing, and wires and burned the wood and tossed the wire, all the feeders are gone. The only thing left is the soil. It’s going to sit in the rain and snow for the next 6 months, then my husband is pouring a 40x40 concrete slab over it to build a shop. I’m planning on making the new space about 2.5 acres away from the OG place. I won’t go on and on about future plans because i want to keep this up to date. So as of right now I have nothing but soil left. My two year waiting period starts today. Cheers!
Step one I rehomed my birds to a mareks flock, very nice guy was excited about the birds I had that seemed to be immune as he has a positive flock. So they are off the property. Step two burn baby burn. The coop has been torched and went up like the 4th of July. Ashes to ashes. My husband took down all the fencing, and wires and burned the wood and tossed the wire, all the feeders are gone. The only thing left is the soil. It’s going to sit in the rain and snow for the next 6 months, then my husband is pouring a 40x40 concrete slab over it to build a shop. I’m planning on making the new space about 2.5 acres away from the OG place. I won’t go on and on about future plans because i want to keep this up to date. So as of right now I have nothing but soil left. My two year waiting period starts today. Cheers!
