I am the one and only !
UN-duplicable!
No, actually you're not the only, there are a couple more guys on here, but they just don't post often.
Danz, I hope your birds start recovering soon & that your Olansk doesn't get what the others have. I know when my layer flock got sick I was terrified it would spread to my breeder coop & get all of my expensive birds, but (knock on wood) it didn't. I don't think it matters if your birds are out free-ranging or shut in a pen, they can still get sick because like you said the diseases are brought in by wild birds. It was my layer flock that is out every day ranging around my yard that got sick & 4 of them died from it. I did have one other group of birds in the breeder coop, the Speckled Sussex that got sick, but my other birds are out there walking all around their pens every day, plus there are trees all over out there where the wild birds can roost. We have a lot of wild birds here with all of the trees we have so it isn't a surprise that they could bring something in.
RoosterLew, I will take some pics tomorrow of my new chicks. Those who have had chickens for some time understand why I don't want to stress them any more than they already have been with the trip they made from Tennessee. I want them to settle in & keep them quiet for the rest of today & then I'll try to get some pics tomorrow. Going through the postal service had to not be that pleasant shut in that box & being jostled all around from truck to truck & building to building. They're kind of expensive birds too, so I want to make sure I do everything right so they make it.