Last year I got mine from Meyer hatchery, gorgeous and healthy girls, and I would definitely order from them again. I recently purchased eggs from a place called gypsy hen poultry, love them too!
Is backyard chickies is a brand name? If they are selling marek disease, they should report about it- .
Yes the place is in San Diego and it’s called backyardchickies.com ( https://www.backyardchickies.com/ ) found them when I was researching places down here in So Cal and someone in the reviews said the owner knows there’s Mareks in the flock but they’re still selling chickens, even shipping now too!
Found this on their site... they state that all their own chickens are vaccinated, and they give the option to vaccinate your chicks on hatch day.
The vaccine prevents most chickens from developing symptoms and dying from mareks disease but since it’s a leaky vaccine, it doesn’t prevent the chickens from actually contracting mareks and infecting other chickens. So if you bring home a chicken that’s vaccinated for mareks but carrying the disease, if you have a flock with unvaccinated birds and introduce that vaccinated bird carrying the disease, they’ll spread it to the unvaccinated birds and they’ll get sick and show symptoms meanwhile that one vaccinated chicken won’t due to the vaccine preventing symptoms from showing. That vaccinated bird with mareks disease is now spreading the disease all over the property and will spread it to any new chickens, vaccinated or not. I do see that they have strict bio security measures with their hatchlings that they sell, and you can prevent them from contracting the disease from the main flock with a strict bio security regime, but I honestly would not risk purchasing from them because I wouldn’t want the chicks that had a bio security breach like some of the reviewers, and end up with mareks on my property that won’t go away for years in the soil.
By that point you might as well get ducks for a few years since they do not get mareks disease! 
Yes I saw that before this year, the chicks were healthy and had no issues, which made me choose them in the first place! I have no idea what is going on this year with their chicks, but something isn't right.
How are these people allowed to sell sick chicks?! I have reported Hilltop Farms to the Sick Bird Line and they are following up.
Which website or phone number did you reported? :0
CDFA USDA 1-866-922-2473
