Sure, I'm happy to give an update! I kept the new chickens quarantined for almost another week and watched them... As they adjusted to our feed and such, their poo got better. I checked them over for mites and other signs of illness. They all looked fantastic, so I decided to end my quarantine...
Will do!! We've already got their quarantine spot set up, so I'll keep them separate for a bit more until I get a better feel for what I'm dealing with, but we probably won't do a full month.
Thanks all! The neighbor wasn't so close that my chickens would be exposed already, it was a neighborhood over, but they got their chickens from Tractor Supply and kept them in their yard. My biggest concern with their past home was that they were in a coop that was too small, a much less ideal...
Hi there! New chicken mom here. We have five 10 week old chickens, and have decided to add three more, around the same age, as a neighbor wanted to give a few away. We knew we needed to keep them apart at first, but didn't realize that we needed to keep them completely separate, and so we put...