New chickens inspection and quarantine

[patandchickens]

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I would like to respectfully disagree with part of this (although I agree with the overall sentiment that it is best to do everything you can to avoid introducing disease into your flock!)...

...since not ALL chicken diseases produce persistant carriers (some are quite curable), quarantine gives you a chance to "fix" those and keep at least *those* diseases out of your flock.

And even for diseases that produce the carrier state, although I do not know for certain about chicken diseases in particular it is generally true for other similar situations in horses and cats that a fully-healthy carrier is far less likely to transmit the disease to others than a carrier in a sickly condition. Thus, if you are *going* to introduce a carrier (however unknonwingly) into your flock, best it be in tip-top physical condition rather than run-down or showing symptoms.

Consequently I totally agree with you Cyn about the virtues of quarantine, possibly even more than YOU do <vbg>

JMHO,

Pat

 

[speckledhen]

Pat, I agree. And I wasn't saying ALL diseases are carrier types. Some only make the birds carriers for a limited number of months after the infection, but since we weren't going into them all, just what the nature of quarantine is and its purpose, I made a general statement. I also agree that you should at least treat things like lice and maybe worm a bird before it goes into the flock, in case that is all that's wrong.

 

[Hollywood Chickens]

Thank you all.
I do inspect my flock weekly and if I see anything that is different or not normal I read about and if I cannot find anything I ask BYC