I hatched some chicks from ebay hatching eggs and the chicks started breathing weird (some just a faint rattle sound and one was more like an occasional gasping and some little sneezes but no discharge). I freaked out and put them down (assuming it is something like MG that came through the eggs from the ebay seller flock) to try and protect the rest of my flock. I've bought many hatching eggs and never had this happen before. I have still isolated the other chicks that were briefly in the brooder with those chicks. Now what do i do? I will keep everything as clean as possible and the brooder is in our house far from our other chickens. I'd rather just find someone willing to take these (knowing about the possible exposure to something of course) that could be exposed, but realize i maybe should cull all of them just in case. Or if i wait 30 days and no sign of spread, is that long enough? There are 2 beltsville turkeys in that brooder, and all my lav and buff ameraucana chicks, and some barred rock heritage and even paint silkies! They all look fine right now, cross fingers! The ones i had to put down were just some cheap speckled sussex from ebay eggs but i'll probably still have nightmares about having to put them down.
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