My Cochin has fowl pox and just had her babies

[Ch1cken Tender]

Hey so I couldn’t leave the mom with them more then a week and a half because she was a new mom and was being a little to violent with them while foraging for food, but while the babies were with her, nobody came down with pox and I think by adding electrolytes in the water and having medicated chick feed, it greatly helped them a lot with their immune systems, so I don’t think you have to cull the eggs. I also noticed even though a lot of my adult outdoor flock did end up getting Avian pox, it doesn’t seem to be contagious the whole gestation it is on the bird, so even though your bird is infected, the time the baby chicks finally come out of their eggs can be when she is no longer spreading it and simply just has the scab marks.

Thank you for taking the time to answer me . I’m very glad that your chicks have turned out well! I decided to cull the eggs though, because I will be going on vacation for nearly a week a week after the eggs would have hatched. Perhaps my next hatch will go better! Thank you again for the reply!

 

[wonderlandfly]

This far along, I would let them hatch. When chickens get pox, they develop natural immunity to it in the future

Thank you for taking the time to answer me . I’m very glad that your chicks have turned out well! I decided to cull the eggs though, because I will be going on vacation for nearly a week a week after the eggs would have hatched. Perhaps my next hatch will go better! Thank you again for the reply!

You’re welcome, yeah hopefully you get a nice next hatch

 

[wonderlandfly]

the baby chicks at almost 3 weeks old now, so here is a picture update, I think they definitely have different dads lol

 

[Ch1cken Tender]

You’re welcome, yeah hopefully you get a nice next hatch

Thank you. I intend to be a bit more prepared next time.

the baby chicks at almost 3 weeks old now, so here is a picture update, I think they definitely have different dads lol

Awww!!! Beautiful chicks! The diversity is very cool.