NorthernHomestead
Songster
I have two coops. We have approximately 40-50 hens and we're getting 18-20 eggs a day for the entire summer. I had a couple of moody hens that were vocal and stopped laying. I assumed they were just broody and moody. This week I noticed two of my large roos with black spots all over their combs and waddles. I looked it up. Looks just like fowlpox. I live in a swampy area and we've lost random chickens out of the blue to breathing problems. I can assume that was wet fowlpox and these roos have dry fowlpox (along with any hens that are moody and not laying as frequently as they should). How long does this virus take to run through 70-80 chickens (we have about thirty chicks and eight roos on top of all the mentioned hens). I'd rather let nature take it's course and not build extra coups to house sick chickens. It's a common chicken virus and if the thought of an illness killing some of my chickens would throw me into hysterics, it'd be the wrong lifestyle to live for me. Husband and I both work full time. We give our birds a good life, but they aren't pets.
Assuming they started passing this around at the beginning of summer when the mosquitoes were at full peak and knowing that a couple of the roos are full faced with black scabbed over pox, how many more months should I anticipate this likely running its course?
Assuming they started passing this around at the beginning of summer when the mosquitoes were at full peak and knowing that a couple of the roos are full faced with black scabbed over pox, how many more months should I anticipate this likely running its course?
