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    Vaccinations and introducing a new bird

    Update: We decided not to get him. I just think I don't know enough about this whole thing to risk it. It would be extremely difficult for us to quarantine him for that length of time and I'd feel horrible if we got him and then he died. So, we decided to wait and possibly get a male chick in...
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    Vaccinations and introducing a new bird

    I had chickens for a decade and then took a break from it because my son was having some reconstructive surgery and I just couldn't care for them properly. So, even though my flock is young, I have experience. The difference now is that my last flock was one that I sort of inherited and we had a...
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    Adding day old chicks to a broody hen

    Yeah, we were worried about the same thing. Waking up to dead chicks or something. I think this way worked out best and now Blueberry just seems uninterested. She's not pecking at them anymore.
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    Vaccinations and introducing a new bird

    Thank you for taking the time with me.
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    Vaccinations and introducing a new bird

    Sorry if this is a dumb question but if you vaccinate all your birds as chicks like I have and another person with a small flock has done the same, is the medical quarantine still necessary? Sorry... I'm just trying to understand the whole vaccination thing and the quarantine thing. We are...
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    Vaccinations and introducing a new bird

    Hey, Thank you for the detailed response. So, we have vaccinated all of our birds as chicks from the hatchery. So, Mareks and .... etc. Lol. I can't remember all that they vaccinate for but we have raised all.of our hens from chicks from a hatchery and gotten any vaccines that they offer. This...
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    Adding day old chicks to a broody hen

    Happy mama, happy babies
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    Adding day old chicks to a broody hen

    Hey everyone, I thought I would come back and give an update. We decided to introduce the chicks to the two mama hens during the day. I know that's opposite of what most people do but because they are both young and inexperienced we wanted to watch them closely and just make sure it was okay...
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    Speckledhen's Ten Commandments of Good Flock Management

    How long do you have to quarantine new birds?
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    Vaccinations and introducing a new bird

    Hey all, Hope someone can help me. I have raised my all hen flock from chicks. I got them all vaccinated and fed them unmedicated feed. We're thinking about adopting a 12 week old rooster from someone I know who has a few too many roosters. He's a sultan mix (pic of cute boy attached) and so far...
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    Adding day old chicks to a broody hen

    Update. We separated off a section of the run (the run itself is predator proof) and also put some chicken wire between them. Put in some cardboard nesting boxes for each hen and covered the whole portion with a tarp so that they wouldn't feel overly exposed. It does have a wooden roof but they...
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    Adding day old chicks to a broody hen

    We already moved them today. We made an enclosure in the run, gave them each a cardboard nesting box with their eggs (unfertilized), and covered it with a tarp. I think I will just feel better knowing they are on the ground and a chick can't fall somewhere. We put up a chicken wire divider...
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    Adding day old chicks to a broody hen

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    Adding day old chicks to a broody hen

    Hello, We have two hens who are broody. Like... REALLY broody. We ordered chicks and are hoping that they will foster them. We have a brooder in case it doesn't work out. Seven chicks. They're coming next week and will get here on day 18, 19, or 20 of they hens broody cycle. So, I think the...
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    Converting shed to coop

    Thank you for the ideas. I think the water comes in on the south side but only when it has rained A LOT. Like when the ground is completely saturated. I think it either leaks in from cracks in the concrete or from where the wall meets the concrete. But it's not a lot of water. So, I'm not sure...
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    Converting shed to coop

    Yeah, I guess I need to find where the water is coming in. I thought maybe not because the floor only gets wet in there when we have a REALLY bad storm. I think it might be happening when the ground is fully saturated and it's leaking in from the south side. I'll have to investigate further...
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    Converting shed to coop

    It does have eave vents on the north and south sides but it doesn't have a gable vent.
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    Converting shed to coop

    I didn't show pics of this but there is a 6 inch gap all around the top of the walls under the roof overhang. I think this building may have been a coop at one point before we moved in, actually. We're going to cover those gaps with hardware cloth to make it predator safe but I'm also...
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    Converting shed to coop

    Hello, We're converting this old wood shed into a new coop. It's much bigger than my current coop and we'll be able to walk inside. I'll take any advice about things to consider but my main question right now is about the floor. It has a concrete floor and water does occasionally get in. Just...
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    Is this Ocular Mareks

    Thank you. There is no way she was exposed to Mareks in the first few weeks. We put the chicks in a brand new brooder that had never had birds in it, in my garage, well away from the coop or the outside for the first couple months. It was dead of winter so they couldn't go into the coop until...
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