Well said, especially on that last part!! 👏🏻
Admittedly, I have skipped quarantine as well, because i didn't have the resources to quarantine them (didn't have an extra coop or other space.) I knew that I was wrong in not quarantining them, but I was always on the lookout for diseases to...
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Here's simple steps! 😃
1. Once you bring the new girls home, put them in the empty coop and quarantine them for 3-4 weeks to prevent the spread of diseases to your healthy flock.
2. I would do a simple health check on the new girls. Check for parasites such as mites. Even a minor sypmtom...
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That looks like scabs from minor wounds to me. In the first stage of frostbite, tissue is yellow. The damaged tissue won't start to die and fall off until much after it gets damaged. So its likely not frostbite. My personal opinion.
I do not think that the ventilation is too close to the roosts at all. Think that when your chickens are sleeping at night, they are not standing on the roosts but rather hunched down in a little ball.
Sometimes a tiny bit of frostbite is inevitable. A lot of times its not about moisture or...