Are you going to quarantine? 40 days as far away from your birds as possible/Good news. The guy I bought my now, dead rosecomb from is going to sell us 1-2 more hens if he has some good ones to choose from. That's the bright side. We do have to drive from Michigan to Indiana to get them though.
A rosecomb what? What breed?
Raising poultry is simple - unless one complicates it by raising multiple species together and breeding as well.
But, when they do get to the ground they receive all the Pathogens together! Do you have any statistics on the % of death comparing the 2 methods?
Excellent point.