➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[shawluvsbirds]

Well they are absolutely adorable!

sweet and smart too. Dang. . I wanna keep one of them lol.

 

[Tesumph]

I think it is a complex issue, and each chicken keeper must decide the course of action they feel most comfortable with. Watching Marek’s decimate a flock and being unable to stop it is a horrible experience.

I agree.. it happened to my first flock. Unfortunately, the only reason such hot strains of Marek’s exist is because of the leaky vaccine that is used. It allows the worst to get through, and vaccinated birds are still carriers of the deadliest strains.
Evolutionarily speaking, such an insane virus would never exist because it would have killed itself off a long time ago. It’s pretty crazy.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Unless you have sex with your birds!!

 

[Tesumph]

Popping in to show you the puppies I'm babysitting. . View attachment 1486307 gotta get a better pic of the other one. . but OMG aren't they the cutest!

They are so freakin CUTE! Man I want puppy kisses now.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Popping in to show you the puppies I'm babysitting. . View attachment 1486307 gotta get a better pic of the other one. . but OMG aren't they the cutest!

I want!!

 

[CSAchook]

I agree.. it happened to my first flock. Unfortunately, the only reason such hot strains of Marek’s exist is because of the leaky vaccine that is used. It allows the worst to get through, and vaccinated birds are still carriers of the deadliest strains.
Evolutionarily speaking, such an insane virus would never exist because it would have killed itself off a long time ago. It’s pretty crazy.

It can really feel like a no win situation sometimes. My father has Marek’s in his flock of unvaccinated hens. It was introduced by wild birds.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

They are so freakin CUTE! Man I want puppy kisses now.

I know right? I get all the puppy kisses for a week.. Then I gotta give them back.

 

[CSAchook]

I know right? I get all the puppy kisses for a week.. Then I gotta give them back.

Oh no! That will be even harder than when Kiki gave away the Balutties

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Oh no! That will be even harder than when Kiki gave away the Balutties

Oh my. . I'm way behind. She gave them away already!
How could she!

 

[Tesumph]

It can really feel like a no win situation sometimes. My father has Marek’s in his flock of unvaccinated hens. It was introduced by wild birds.

Only 3 of my original 12 survived, and those 3 were killed overnight by raccoons through the dog cage I had isolated them in. I was younger and didn’t know about necropsies or how to handle it, so we just watched them die one by one. Such a horrible sickness.