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I also hate that word.......... in a year they will have an accronym for it ......... like BS........so it will sound even cooler and make someone pretend to be smart LOL. I try not to over think the issues of bringing in unwanted oooooglies into my program, so I don't really do all that much except be vigilant. I have new birds coming into my pen's a few times a year, and I think the main key is to know chickens and how to evaluate them. We read so often how folks are so concerned with this and that and so on & so forth and that's fine but these same folks can quote the symptom verbatum, at the same time couldn't tell if the chicken actualy even has it. Their lack of common knowledge is the key here, if you think a bird has a respitory issue you had better know how to see it, hear it, how to cure it, and do it right, by hands on, not just muddle through, but get knee deep in it.
I have never had an issue in my pen's medicaly where I brought something in that a bird had.............. Why you ask........... because I fully inspect the bird for all things and can do it in about 1 minute by handling it and giving it the once over better than any exam by avian vet this side of the Missesip. It's not hard, I let folks come into my breeder house if they want, but I have walk way's and they can stroll and parruse the isles without needing to enter the pens. Everybody always say's and I repeat............ I NEVER LET ANYBODY IN MY COOP'S UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES !!!! Why because they read it on some forum by a pet chicken person
. If your chickens are healthy and have a good immune system in place, then it's not all that big a deal............... sure if I know a guy has sick birds at his place i might tell him to wait outside the pen's or go wipe your feet in the sandpit, no worries. I can see if my birds are coming down with something before the bird does LOL.
I prefer to prevent as a regimine rather than rush to treat, Sure I have a wall chest in the pen's that has a few of the must have med's, and remedies but they have dust on them and rarely get used due to not needing them. prevention is easier........... why don't people get that. LOL I know more people who like to rescue chickens cause it gives them a sense of empowerment and it sounds better to their friends at a dinner party, but they couldn't cure a shaving cut with a towel and most of those birds stay sick because their owners like to say they rescue birds without really knowing how to treat them, so once again the bird suffers.
Ok I'll slow down a bit here................. this is the extent of my med's.......... they are on the left in the 2 cabinets and some on the shelfs, it's all I need.