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I quarantined by age (have 3 week old pullets, wanted some black australorp chicks) so I separated mine, cleaned up the brooder for the BA's, moved the 3 week old pullets to the undershelf cage in the greenhouse. There will certainly be some environmental exposure for the newest birds, but it...

I suspect that climate has an influence on whether wild birds spread disease. I've been keeping chickens for almost 2 years, but I've been keeping fish for almost 30 years. Tropicals, goldfish, freshwater and saltwater. A sick fish in the wild is eaten by something. It does not reproduce after...

That is reassuring Speckled Hen. I chase the wild birds out of my coops now and then, when the bird feeder gets empty and the hens are ranging in the yard, but they sure aren't nesting in there. But in almost 2 years with my hens I haven't seen a bug. And I've looked - they are molting. Worried...

Quote: If wild birds have access to your birds at all (which includes looking through the wire at one another) a 'closed' flock isn't going to protect you. More diseases/parasites are transfer by wild birds than by anything else. Then I don't have a closed flock, but I choose not to buy...

I am considering enlarging my flock. Already added 5 chicks from the feed store, still kept separately from my older hens, but they forage "together" (not really, but they encounter each other in the yard, and the big ones peck and the little ones run). I went to the Merck page, and got...

I have also chosen to keep a closed flock. I have no roosters, Fort Worth doesn't allow them anyway, and every roo I've been offered has been an adult. Just adding 4 or 5 chicks every couple of years should keep me in enough eggs. I'm not raising meat birds, well not deliberately. My...

Quote: That he can, quite royal!

They are indeed creative - and that is a very regal chicken photo to match! (but is it a hen or a roo???)

Thanks for your reply, Your Royal Henliness! (Love the title) I'll just hunt for eggs if a hen goes broody... And leave the Roos alone. Gypsi

Wow - I just learned a lot, will be checking out the "sticky". I am fortunate, when I visited my customer with chickens and helped her set up the waterer I built her, I was wearing my pond shoes. Which get exposed to ponds, and periodic bleach dunkings, but never ever worn in my yard...