Let's Talk About Why You Should Quarantine New Birds

[No Coop No Problem]

I have never quarantined and my chickens are all tough as nails. If you treat chickens like delicate flowers their immune systems will become like delicate flowers

Pay attention as you browse this website and you'll always see that the most isolated and protected chickens have the worst immune systems

Bad breeding and isolation makes sickly chickens. Good breeding and exposure makes healthy chickens

 

[GlicksChicks]

I dont quarentine because I dont buy peoples birds lol did that once and birds had mg so culled them all and never got people throwaways again. People here lie they either sell you sick birds or old birds as pullets so not worth the hassle easier for me to raise them as chicks.

I agree. I have never bought a chicken from someone. They have only been given to me, and only 1 of them ever got near my flock, but that didn't work out. This one was a rooster someone was getting rid of, so I took him. If I had paid for the one with worms I would probably be upset.

I decided to start taking in unwanted roosters after someone had contacted me about 3 abandoned roosters near their house. Then one was hit by a car. I took the 2 living ones in. One was mean and attacked me. And the other one had very small feet for his size and was not too nice either.

 

[GlicksChicks]

I never quarantined. Ended up getting mareks, but that was something I couldn't have just waited out in a quarantine since they were from vaccinated birds from a small hatchery and to this day haven't shown symptoms

DId you lose any to Mareks? I don't know much about Mareks, I haven't experienced it. Knock on wood.

 

[Azhtann]

If he came from nearby, could've let him walk back home. Chickens don't have to know the path they came, they just have to know where home is. I had a 6 week old chick escape from a brooder because I had removed her from the coop because her mother wasn't raising her anymore. She was gone the whole day and then around 5pm she came back to the coop. She had never been at the brooder or near my house before, but she found her way home.

I am the only one in the neighborhood with chickens. We all live pretty remotely, I have no idea where he came from, but never heard a rooster crowing before he arrived.

 

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

Sorry about that.
Think I fixed it, try again?

Nope. Still not

 

[Amer]

I have never quarantined and my chickens are all tough as nails. If you treat chickens like delicate flowers their immune systems will become like delicate flowers

Pay attention as you browse this website and you'll always see that the most isolated and protected chickens have the worst immune systems

Bad breeding and isolation makes sickly chickens. Good breeding and exposure makes healthy chickens

Sounds like you got lucky.

 

[Amer]

Chickens are birds. Birds have much more complex respiratory systems than we do. When they get certain diseases they are hosts for the rest of their lives, even when they don’t show symptoms. It took a long time for me to be able to guarantee my birds are clean of disease.

That doesn’t stop me from showing my birds, I know they are robust enough to be around tons of apparently healthy unrelated birds. These unrelated birds could have diseases that you couldn’t see. But I trust my healthy adult birds will not get infected. That said, it would be folly to introduce them to the rest of my flock right away and risk my future prospects.
I would NEVER buy from someone who did that. It’s poor practice.

 

[FrostRanger]

My first flock of six Jersey Giants was wiped out by not quarantining. Before I started putting locks on my cage doors, I had someone decide to add a rooster to my chicken pen. At the time, I only wanted six (silly, I know!) and had no desire for a rooster. I came home to an extra bird, and me being the only one in my neighborhood with chickens. I didn't have another cage to put him in, and he ended up not being a gentleman. He killed my hens. I wish I knew who dumped him so I could have returned the favor. I also wish that I had removed him and found somewhere to put him instead of letting him stay for fear he would be eaten by predators if released.

Some people are just ignorant jerks. If anyone tried that here, the footage from my camera would be swiftly turned over to the police and they'd get the bill for any sick birds they caused plus their rooster back (or not if he's a jerk too 'cause I'm not losing an eye over a mean chicken)

 

[Azhtann]

Some people are just ignorant jerks. If anyone tried that here, the footage from my camera would be swiftly turned over to the police and they'd get the bill for any sick birds they caused plus their rooster back (or not if he's a jerk too 'cause I'm not losing an eye over a mean chicken)

I have no cameras here, unfortunately. I didn't in a million years imagine I would need them. I have seriously reconsidered over the years of living here.

 

[GlicksChicks]

I have no cameras here, unfortunately. I didn't in a million years imagine I would need them. I have seriously reconsidered over the years of living here.

I hope that doesn't happen again. Did the rooster go to freezer camp?