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Well, that was a thread killer :D A lighter note HRIR 5 months

When I replaced my first flock I went with places certified NPIP and mycoplasma free. Seperate is hard since it requires physical distance and the reality of hair, clothes, shoes, skin next. having to be separate. It is hard enough for a month for quarantine.

If I remember correctly, ms can result in 20% mortality. Mycoplasma synoviae has many symptoms. I had some with no symptoms some sneezing, some with snotty beaks and raspy breathing, done with that and then leading into leg issues. Two deaths. Tylan helped some for those with minor symptoms...

I did not suggest you do, just giving a big picture. Someone with a few pets can approach it differently than a larger group. It can be treated and most will live and just get sick a bit easier. Mine would have meant not selling breeding stock or fertile eggs. Not that it is illegal, but I...

I am only a year ahead of you and learning from others too. ms Mycoplasma Synoviae and mg Mycoplasma Gallisepticum. You can treat the symptoms, but once present they are always carriers and susceptible to a relapse in times of stress. Some mortality occurs. You should read about them just to...

Sally Sunshine just posted some good information on using hydrogen peroxide to clean eggs prior to incubating. It was just posted. Banti will be adding it to the notes section found on the first page of the hatching with friends second thread (the current not the locked one).@Girlywelder

@GirlywelderAvian vets exist, but are more expensive. My local vet will do blood draws and send them or you can sacrifice a bird I you gave a big problem for testing to help the others. As to vaccines you can do baby chicks for Mereks. If you have any sick or one dies you can send them for a...

You can get a blood sample to test for them, but most people don't since they so prevalent. I just treat my shoes and anyone who comes to my house and hope to avoid it. Eighty percent will live, and if you don't cull the survivors of what will be a bit less prone to respiratory illness in...

My vet said if I get a respiratory infection in the future (I culled and started again with NPIP and mycoplasma free stock) that it is best to just cull the ones that get really sick, not to breed the ones that sneeze or show symptoms, and to breed the ones that have no symptoms. Then you build...

You need to make sure that flock does not have conditions like ms, mg, Mereks, etc. The chicks born from infected flocks are born carriers! The vet college in NC that studies Mycoplasma synoviae warned me when I inquired. The poultry expert for the state of Missouri said around 85% of...

Pullets five to six months. BSL and two EE/green egg layers