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The really sad thing about this is the woman I bough my chicks from is selling chicks to other local folks and not disclosing the fact that her chicks may have been exposed to a carrier bird. I wonder how many flocks have been infected because of this?

thank you. I sure did learn a lesson or two. 1....never ever buy a chick that doesn't look right and accept the seller's word that they are OK...just chilled. 2. Always QT any new stock, no matter how healthy it looks or how nice the seller is. Here's the ironic thing. I am a avid koi...

My hubby said he will take care of them for me while I am at work today. I'll just need to sanatize the equipment and the area around the cage with a 10% bleach when I get home. Will that clean things up well enough? I guess no Specked Sussex for me.

Ok. Thanks for your honest response. I will euthanize them all.

I have been thinking about this problem a little more. A couple of the chicks in the cage look bad and will be euthanized today. They looked bad from the start and have made no improvement. But a few of them look and act like normal healthy chicks and never looked sick. At the farm where I...

not the news I wanted to hear. I am really new to chickens and bought chicks from 3 sources. These are the last ones I bought. The others are all healthy and growing.....but the pen they are in is only about 8 feet from the cage that houses these sick ones. And the sick ones cage WAS inside...

I bought 7 chicks last weekend. Honestly I should not have gotten them. One looked odd, sort of has his eyes half closed and ruffled feathers. She had just brough them out of the brooder house and the morning was a little chilly, and she said they were just chilled from the morning air...