quarantine timing
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How much longer do we need to quarantine against Avian Influenza? Anyone know?
Anyone know how much longer we need to quarantine our flocks against Avian influenza? I'm in Michigan. When did the wild birds stop migrating? I found nothing on this.- Tereseb
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- avian flu quarantine timing
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- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Rooster dumped in the woods questions
Hello all long post ahead and questions at the end! A few days ago someone dumped a rooster in the woods right next to the road. I was able to catch him after it got dark because he was roosting low in the trees after a cop stopped by and questioned/laughed me. (We have a lot of night predators...- Lunadear
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- found bird free range new rooster quarantine timing rooster
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- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Quarantining chicks?
I looked at some other threads, and couldn't quite find what I was looking for. If I am getting chicks from two different hatcheries - and getting them 1-2 weeks apart (maybe less) - do I need to quarantine the second batch of chicks? They are both being bought as total chicks. Thanks! Heather- heathercara
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- chicks quarantine timing
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- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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Quarantine Area Size
A friend of mine (yep, the friends we had over one Sunday to convince them to start keeping chickens only an hour after I had processed my first cockerel, https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-deed-is-done-my-flock-is-now-at-peace.74152/) now has a little BO cockerel he must get rid of...- Mimi13
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- cockerel quarantine quarantine timing space needed
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- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Quarantine MISTAKE!!! Advice needed.
We just acquired two new birds yesterday. Being the silly novice chicken owners that we are, we were not at all prepared to quarantine them properly. Our current "flock" consists of one chicken and three ducks. (We had another chicken that died of illness unspecified last week.) When we got the...- Contolini6
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- mistake new chicken quarantine quarantine timing
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- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Leaving a hen alone for a week?
Hi, Y'all! I'm new to this forum and would super appreciate any insight my fellow chicken keepers could share with me... Here is my situation. Over the last 6 months, my flock of 4 Silkie hens has dwindled down to 1 hen. 2 were lost to predators, 1 to natural causes. I've been wanting to get 3...- Jenergie
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- one hen quarantine timing vacation week
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- Forum: Managing Your Flock