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How old are your current chickens? Quarantine the new chicks for at least 4 weeks. If your current chickens are all laying age, I would wait until your new chicks are at least 12 weeks before trying to add them to avoid as much assertiveness in pecking order. They need to be big enough to...

I believe that after the vet looked at the birds and told me to stop all meds on the group except for the one showing the odd wobbly walk, we are doing fine. The last bird with symptoms--australorp with the wobbly, almost drunken walk got another round of corid daily as the vet instructed and...

Chicken is now back to normal. Amazing! She also has always had a black face and comb (Australorp). When I checked her this evening to see how she was, her face was actually starting to redden up like a real hen! Impressed here! She got to go back in with her friends. Maybe I can move...

As of my last check, my rear end sitting hen has eaten her yogurt and crumbles, been drinking, and is now standing again. She appears to still be talking to herself, so I am pleased so far. Her stool is a little off--dark, army green and white. Not like what the other birds had. Still...

I have considered culling--but I'm afraid if it is something that is capable of spreading by air (like Mareck's) then it would still spread to the other coops I have. What I read about Mareck's today said that if a bird carries it, the hatched chicks will not have Mareck's unless they are...

I am moving my other coops farther away from this one. I had them around 30 yards apart, but now I'm not feeling confident about that. After hours of research, I'm considering Mareck's. I found a website this morning that had a symptom checklist--three symptoms I have were on the Mareck's...

While I do adore these birds, if the NPIP testing comes back positive, they have to go. I had wonderfully healthy birds, quarantined new birds appropriately, and have done all of the cleaning and treatments obsessively. The deaths snuck up on us and were sudden and tragic. If this is...

The first ones I lost were from the newer ones added to the flock. At that point, they had been quarantined for 4 weeks, then added. They were in with my group for almost a month. It was 2 down from the new flock that were 12 weeks at that point, 4 from my original group that were grown, then...

Thanks for the thoughts. They haven't been dusted for mites in a while. I will head out to do that in a few minutes. Looking online, those symptoms can all apply to several different things. I've seen those symptoms listed for everything from mites and worms to pollorum, typhoid, and...

The vet saw nothing in the stool sample other than the cocci. Hubby told him we had started the Corid 24 hours prior to taking this sample. They were wormed before with the Wazine--it was all my TSC had in stock at the time. I have seen no sign of any visible worms in the poop hammock or...

Okay, guys...I am SUFFERING! My main flock is kept in one large run with an enclosed coop--these are MY egg birds. I had not had one problem out of their health. I had added some newbies back in October. No problems. Then just over two weeks ago, two of the newer little guys died. I...