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I wish all of us had the access to such testing. But the thing that leaves me god-smacked is the reasonable cost. I've availed myself of the state ag lab a hundred miles away and received exorbitant bills of a couple hundred dollars for simple fecal float tests and tests for pathogens such as...

This is about as bad as it gets keeping chickens. No one is going to try to convince you it's no big deal. It goes against everything we feel and expect about new life. To need to end it so soon after it begins isn't natural. So that's why it's got you in a fragile emotional state. The pain is...

After doing a load of laundry in hot water, and after washing everything down with bleach solution, and don't forget the shoes you've been wearing out and around, you should be in the clear.

Awesome! BYC has a celebrity! :bow Your work is amazing!

You've arrived at a very wise plan of action.

I'm not out to try to convince you to do something one way or the other. It's entirely your call. But the fact is that yes, you can treat these chicks and they will get well, but they will carry the bacteria in their cells and at some future date, if they get stressed or sick with something...

As @Wyorp Rock has pointed out, these respiratory illnesses are all contagious. Many of them are virus based and if the chicks now carry one of these viruses, even if you treat the symptoms and they get well, they will carry the virus from now on and can infect your other chickens. I do know...