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I sit by the nest and chat to the mums.:love
You can hear the shells breaking. The chicks are talking to mum a couple of days before they hatch. I recal being a bit shocked when Donk left the nest for a bit of a stretch and crap while an egg was partly hatched. The chicks was fine.
 
Do you know the specifics?
I never heard of that big of a range in time...most are 2-3 weeks.
They seem to be figuring it out still.

There is some testing going on for mixing vaccines-- and the New one is one dose. A person might be able to get Moderna and then the new Bayer vaccine for example.

I suspect the timing is like the Shingrix vaccine wait two months for the second but can wait up to 6 months. Of course getting both doses for covid as soon as possible increases immunity faster.

I did find this in a Guide:

• The second dose may be administered after the 21- or 28-day window for the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine, respectively. Although it is optimal to receive the second dose as close as possible to the correct day, second doses should be administered even if an individual presents to receive their second dose after that time period. The vaccine series does not need to be restarted even if the second dose is administered late
 
In several senior residents they were having troubles too: Even though the residents had received their second vaccine several weeks or month ago,they still got infected, developed severe symptoms and lots of them died of Covid. It is being investigated.
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I found this:
"The study confirmed the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker's findings from earlier this month that showed the vaccine had 76% efficacy against symptomatic coronavirus infection for three months after the first dose."

Which means 24 out of 100 people will not be protected. I'll be in the queue in about 20 days. The Johnson & Johnson one that has yet to be approved here is only 60% effective. If it has been approved at that time I'm going to ask which vaccine they are using. If it is Pfizer or Moderna I'll go. If J&J, no thanks I won't make an appointment. And if they don't know until you get there I'll leave.

It isn't like you can pee on a strip of something to know if you are protected or not. J&J should just punt their vaccine and make one of the other 2 on a contract of some sort. We need a large quantity of effective vaccine not a large quantity of "well it MIGHT work".

Not until it's good and light out, even tho they are fairly safe in the run....so time varies.
Today was about 8:30.
My girls wait until I get there, whenever that is ;) They don't need me for anything right off anyway. Their food and water is in the run (ie the barn alley), the door to the coop opens with daylight and they won't go out in the snow anyway. I go out earlier later in the year when I know they will want to get out of the barn.

But they still have to wait in mid summer. Just because they are up with the sun at 4:30 AM doesn't mean I want to get up then!

Three month wait for the second.
Do you know what one she had? The only options I know about are for the 2 approved vaccines here in the USA and as posted before, those are 3 & 4 weeks.
 
Why such on long wait on the second dose?
I don't know Meg

Hopefully it will have the same effectiveness. Maybe it doesn't matter how far apart, just that you get both.
The delay is to get as many people as possible their first dose as quickly as possible. The marginal benefit of the second dose is less than the benefit of the initial dose, and the delay does no harm. See
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/...itisation-of-first-doses-of-covid-19-vaccines

In some (historic) cases vaccines work better with longer gaps between jabs, or mixing and matching different vaccines, as they found with ebola.
 
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