Have you ever had chickens that never got sick?

[Three Stents]

All these posts about chickens getting sick. The list is fairly long on all the disease, illness that chickens get. Is it envitable?

 

[AinaWGSD]

I'd venture to say that most of my chickens over the past 15 years have never been sick. I've had two cross beak chicks, one valgus deformity, one chronic soft egg layer with salpingitis, and one unfortunate pullet with a vestigial left ovary that became cystic. This fall I had two hens develop bumblefoot, but other than that all the sickly chickens I've had were pretty much physical defects they were born with.

 

[Eggcessive]

A lot depends on where you get your chicks. Getting healthy chicks from a hatchery, as long as there is not a glitch in delivery or the hatch, would give you the best chances on having healthy chickens. Adding chickens from other places is always a gamble. Quarantine any new birds for at least a month to look for symptoms of a disease, or practice an “all in all out” method in raising chickens. Unfortunately many of us decide to add to our flock or get some new breeds, and then we end up with a an illness. Once a disease is introduced into a flock, it is there until the last bird is alive.