Does anyone here NOT vaccinate for fowl pox?

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

I can attest to the fact that no after they get it, they are immune. I still have some of those birds from ten years ago, no other vaccines have been given to them and they have never developed a problem with it since. Not really thinking the immunity can be passed on to offspring though, though it may be possible.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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buying any outside poultry, including eggs, is not a true "closed flock " though. many many of the diseases are transmitted mother to egg. So eggs are by no means always clean and heathy.
That's why here in the States we are required to be NPIP certified to ship out of our home states. MG, MS, Pllorum, Typhoid, salmenalla, etc are all transmitted to the eggs and resulting chicks by the mother.

No fowl pox and other viruses arent so much, but many bacterial infections are.... Just be aware of that

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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yep, here they can almost lift you off the ground, espcially in the spring rainy season. I stay in the woods hunting a fishing and stuff. and you litterally just hear a constant humm from them.

For your bird, the pox usually is a wart like knot on the head area (where they get bit the easiest) It is usually yellowy looking to start then capped in black (the scab) If yours just looks like a cut or lesion, that may well be all it is. The pox will always show a a raised knot.. If that helps ID it any

 

[clairabean]

We do not vaccinate at all. We have never had a problem yet. (fingers crossed!) But our flock is small.
-We get cold, harsh winters, and our summers are mild. I feel that is a big help in killing what needs to be killed.
-We also eat our birds (not laying, old, mean ones...) and we do not want to eat medicated meat.
-We feed organic and sell 'organic' eggs. Our customers do not want medicated eggs.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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vaccinations are not chemicals, they are the naturally occurring dead viruses in a simple saline solution. nothing chemical or inorganic about it. This is not the same thing as medicating birds with chemicals.
Just want to be sure everyone is clear on that. I have seen so many that seem to feel and think it's the same thing, when in fact it's not.

 

[clairabean]

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Agree to disagree on this.

 

[onthespot]

I don't vaccinate, and mostly they get over it. I have lost some key birds here and there though, to fowl pox. This year I lost my only replacement buff orp roo after I sold the dad. (crum!) I sold the rest of the pullets and just kept one for a souvenier. Wish I had that buff cockerel still... but not bad enough to vaccinate a few hundred birds and keep track of who is in what pen and had what. We usually get fowl pox every late summer. There is a large backyard poultry population for miles around and plenty of mosquitoes, a river and ponds nearby... I just figure it is a part of the cost of doing business. Just breed the best you can, keep a few spares of the key birds if you can, and hope for the best.

 

[hemet dennis]

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Hello neighbor

 

[Tracydr]

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yep, here they can almost lift you off the ground, espcially in the spring rainy season. I stay in the woods hunting a fishing and stuff. and you litterally just hear a constant humm from them.

For your bird, the pox usually is a wart like knot on the head area (where they get bit the easiest) It is usually yellowy looking to start then capped in black (the scab) If yours just looks like a cut or lesion, that may well be all it is. The pox will always show a a raised knot.. If that helps ID it any

It's more white with just a little flakiness and I noticed just a tiny black blood spot or two at the tip of his comb. The main area effected is his ear lobes and they haven't gotten worse or better in months.
We do have enough mosquitoes here that last year our city had the highest rate of West Nile Virus in the country for a short time and I don't spray any chemicals in my yard, at all. So, sometimes we actually do have some mosquitoes in the desert, due to irrigation, but nothing like when I lived in OK or CO.

 

[sillyena]

No vaccinateing here...