Do you vaccinate your chickens?

[Lovely Lettie]

When I used to have chickens i brought them from Taylor made poultry it's our local feed store.
And they come vaccinated.
I know they can't survive without the Marek's vaccine.

 

[MysteryChicken]

how do you explain: my little cousin was born in good health. he was 18 months old, talked, walked before he got vaccinated. then he became autistic. the same thing happened to a friend of mine who's kid got vaccinated at the age of 3. the same thing with the neighbor of mine, age 3,5 when got vaccinated. and many other. I am talking about 2 different countries, so it is not local. they are the reason I don't trust vaccines.

There's actually been study on the subject, & they proved there's no link between vaccines, & autism.
Here

Let's stay on topic here, we're talking chickens.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

When I used to have chickens i brought them from Taylor made poultry it's our local feed store.
And they come vaccinated.
I know they can't survive without the Marek's vaccine.

Really? I was of the impression that Marek's was largely a non-issue in the UK, at least as compared to the other diseases ravaging poultry there. In this report, there was one case in 2020 in a backyard flock, and when you look at the reported conditon of the bird, I think most would conclude that death was a kindness.

"A differential diagnostic investigation was undertaken on one negated notifiable disease report case in Q2-2020, involving a small holder chicken flock with a history of respiratory disease. Histopathology showed evidence of likely Mycoplasma or Avibacterium involvement in the respiratory disease, and lesions suggestive of Marek’s disease were also detected. Scaly leg (Knemidocoptes) mites were also identified."

/edit I forgot this was t he report that splits Mareks into two sections. Keep reading, there are additional reports later in the document, though overall rate of confirmed infections remains low - approximately 6% of suspected cases. and, as typical of Mareks, tightly clustered with substantial morbidity in individual flocks.

 

[Lovely Lettie]

Really? I was of the impression that Marek's was largely a non-issue in the UK, at least as compared to the other diseases ravaging poultry there. In this report, there was one case in 2020 in a backyard flock, and when you look at the reported conditon of the bird, I think most would conclude that death was a kindness.

"A differential diagnostic investigation was undertaken on one negated notifiable disease report case in Q2-2020, involving a small holder chicken flock with a history of respiratory disease. Histopathology showed evidence of likely Mycoplasma or Avibacterium involvement in the respiratory disease, and lesions suggestive of Marek’s disease were also detected. Scaly leg (Knemidocoptes) mites were also identified."

There's alot of bird flu down here.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

There's actually been study on the subject, & they proved there's no link between vaccines, & autism.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/autism.html

Let's stay on topic here, we're talking chickens.

ChickenGr is in Greece. There's been studies on that there, too. Apparently, beliefs like theirs are most common among non-Greeks, living in Greece, who happen to be single parents (or single without children).

Not to cast unverified aspersions, that's simply the statistics.

Whether or not they apply to ChickenGr and what other assumptions one miught then make, I leave to your collective imaginations.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

There's alot of bird flu down here.

Yes, YES, YES there is. For many years now. Mareks vaccine doesn't protect against that. and the AI vaccines aren't effective against every strain. The UK has four active AI variants right now, I believe?

 

[MysteryChicken]

ChickenGr is in Greece. There's been studies on that there, too. Apparently, beliefs like theirs are most common among non-Greeks, living in Greece, who happen to be single parents (or single without children).

Not to cast unverified aspersions, that's simply the statistics.

Whether or not they apply to ChickenGr and what other assumptions one miught then make, I leave to your collective imaginations.

Greece. I didn't see location.

 

[Lovely Lettie]

Yes, YES, YES there is. For many years now. Mareks vaccine doesn't protect against that. and the AI vaccines aren't effective against every strain. The UK has four active AI variants right now, I believe?

Yeah it's crazy everywhere you can't just go and look at the chickens at our feed store like you used to be able to.
You have to stand really far away behind a fence.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Yeah it's crazy everywhere you can't just go and look at the chickens at our feed store like you used to be able to.
You have to stand really far away behind a fence.

I hope you understand whan I express my hopes that those of us on this side of the pond don't find ourselves in similar condition, come this fall, or next spring...

 

[Lovely Lettie]

I hope you understand whan I express my hopes that those of us on this side of the pond don't find ourselves in similar condition, come this fall, or next spring...

Yes I completely understand.