INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

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Wow, sorry to hear that. how'd they get it? (I will have to even look that up!)
I was an idiot. Some will argue I still am, but I found them at a flea market on a windy raining day. I was in a hurry, and quickly bought a pair without looking them over real closely. I threw them in a cage in the back of my truck and brought them home. When I unloaded them out of the truck to put them in my basement, I got my first good whiff of them. It smelled hideous. Once I set the cage down to take a closer look, I noticed one of the hens had bubbles in the corners of her sagging eyes. She turn her head up and would stretch her neck up real high, and her neck would swell with every breath. I listened for rales, but didn't hear it. Her nostrils started discharging thick fluid, and she obviously couldn't see very well because she pecked all over the feeder trying to eat. I initially thought it might be just a respiratory illness, but after researching all the symptoms... especially the horrible odor... it all pointed towards infectious coryza. Even though the other hen appeared to be okay, I knew she had already gone through the symptom stage, or was yet to. There's no cure for coryza, and birds are carriers for life... capable of passing the disease to any other birds they come in contact with. I wasn't going to risk my existing flock, so they had to go bye-bye.

To answer your question... there were many birds in the cage that my two came out of. I'm sure all of those birds were infected, and probably every other bird on the owner's property. I didn't know the seller, and haven't seen him since. But when I do... hmmm
 
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