hatching some eggs over the summer, current flock has had fowl pox in the past, danger to new chicks??

[afieldssnowyegger]

I'm going to be hatching chicks in June. My three girls that I have now had fowl pox (dry form) about a month ago, all got through it okay, don't have it anymore. Are the chicks I'm hatching soon going to be in danger of getting fowl pox by being housed with my older gals? Just wondering if they are still carriers even after they are no longer actively suffering from it?

 

[coach723]

They will be fine. When mosquito's become active again, those that have never had it may get it, hard to say. Some area's of the country are much worse than others. The lesions are contagious when they actively have the disease. The birds are not carriers and can't pass it that way. IF you had a really dirty coop then possibly if there were a bunch of shed scabs in the bedding and dirt, then maybe it could be passed that way, but doubtful. By June any possible risk should have passed, other than from being bitten by a carrying mosquito then. Your birds that had it should not get that strain again.

 

[afieldssnowyegger]

That's a relief, thank you!!!