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    Most disease resistant breeds

    Will do, setting a reminder for October to give a post-summer update...
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    Most disease resistant breeds

    Someone asked for an update so here it is: ________________________________________________________ Hi, We went for it and got 10 chicks in March 2022 and knock on wood they are all doing great. Really, we got 14 but 2 died in shipping and 2 were roosters. We got them from MyPetChicken. We took...
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    Most disease resistant breeds

    Yes, we had a neocropsy done and it was confirmed to be Mareks. Our birds have all had very different symptoms so very hard to tell but I figure if one had it they all will.
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    Most disease resistant breeds

    Thanks for the input, as you can probably tell from the pictures the chickens are part of our family now and we would not cull the flock. Given that, I assume your advice is that we should not get more birds. Some of our pet chickens are only 1 year old and will, even being carriers of...
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    Most disease resistant breeds

    We clearly have Marek's in our flock and probably something else (did not practice biosecurity when building flock). Out of 27 birds we have lost 9 to disease in the last year. It has been hard on the kids. They seem to go about one every month or so and all are slightly different. We want...
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    One year old can't use legs but won't pass

    One of our chickens (Ginger - little over 1 year old) got "sick" and has now not been able to use her legs or walk for the past 3 weeks. We did not follow good biosecurity when starting our flock and at this point I assume we have several diseases hitting us pretty bad. We can't cull because...
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    Hi from Phoenix

    Hello everyone, joining to get advice as our family navigates our backyard chicken life. (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Both my wife and I had chickens growing up so we decided to jump into it about a year ago. We are intermediates :) (2) How many chickens do...
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