Anyone willing to educate me? Diseases and eggs?

[Ali707]

I am getting the hatching bug and doing a lot of reaearching. Is it possible to get a disease in an egg? I haven't seen the question on here but there are 1300 pages to search through and I haven't found it so far......any help is much appreciated.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=15239-poultry-diseases-2

Have a look under transmission in each category- it tells you if it is transmitted via egg.

 

[dirtsaver]

Ali there seems to be several schools of thought on this. From what I've been able to sift through there is a small possibility that a couple of diseases may be passed on through the eggs to the chicks but that is rare. Hopefully others can give you more info.

Larry

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044
look under transmission to see if it is transmitted via egg

 

[Ali707]

Thanks for the information. Makes you want to rethink having chickens at all.....

But not really. I am having too much fun with them. Thank you again. I marked the page as a favorite for future reference.