Thanks for the information, I did have a rooster but got rid of him because the poor girls were bare backs, it was tough to see . What a gruesome thing to see, maggots on a living thing instead of on the bottom of the trash can this time of year.
I had witnessed the strangest thing today, this one chicken had been getting slower and hanging around the door of the coop when I looked at her today I smelled the
foulest odor and saw some what looked like maggots around her tail feathers and vent. Needless to say I took here out of the coop...
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome , yea, as I said before I went ahead and had my chicks vaccinated just to be safe, it seems like the right thing to do.I can't wait to get the additions to the family.
Hello, I am getting back into raising chickens after a few years off due to having babies but now they are old enough( 6&3) to appreciate watching something grow from only a few days old. The one thing I agonized over was to vaccinate or not to vaccinate for Marek's disease. I did finally call...