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I think Ja123 is in the United Kingdom...will there be an issue shipping a vaccine to a foreign country? Customs and all that....??

Like Mary, I have no idea where you can get the vaccine. Poultry supply companies, veterinarians, agricultural supply stores, etc., would be some good places to start looking. As for the actual mareks vaccine it is injected into loose skin on the back of the neck. Here's an example video of...

I got to thinking about it and wonder if the issue is that the chickens that have been vaccinated do just as you said...they can get the virus but not exhibit the symptoms and the virus that they subsequently shed possibly becomes hotter and hotter. They more or less become a living petri dish...

It's my understanding that the vaccine is a strain of the turkey virus and thus doesn't make the vaccinated chicks carriers for life. If this is correct then this article has apparently go off on a rabbit trail somewhere by saying that the vaccine can create a more virulent "hot" strain of the...

Thanks for the replies. I'm still a ways off on getting chickens so I've got time to mull this over. I like the natural selection idea...much like honey bees and treatment versus treatment-free. Mites are a problem with bees, but if you treat for mites you won't get them all...and the...

Thanks Mary. That confers with what I've since read. I've got a ways to go before I worry about it, but trying to stock the gray matter with info that I'll need. :) Thanks again for the feedback! Ed

Sorry to bring up an older thread but I'm curious about something. Since the Marek vaccine is a culture of a turkey virus is there a danger to turkeys if you bring them into the flock later own?