Thanks! We are definately enjoying the wedding process!Congratulations on your son's impending wedding!! How fun- crazy - but fun!Soak in every moment!
We are actually doing pretty well here - knowledge is definitely power. I've researched until I can't see straight anymore!
My plan for my flock - currently - is to collect fertilized eggs from my most hard hit breeds, hatch and then vaccinate them. Currently my flock is about half vaccinated, half not (there wasn't really a choice involved in that, it's just the way it worked out), so eventually I will either have all vaccinated, or resistant birds. I will not ever be able to sell started birds though, even with vaccinations, because of the exposure on our farm. I can, however, sell hatching eggs and chicks (carefully incubated, vaccinated and biosecure from the outside world.) should my flock ever get back to that point again. Right now, all the eggs are for me - so I don't have to start over.
Of course, every now and then, I just want to process them all, have a giant chicken barbecue, and call it quits. But that feeling generally passes when I go out and watch the silly, happy critters in my yard!
Good news!!!! I have my chickens as pets and love them so much! Seeing all their crazy antics makes all the stressful times worth it so question....do the eggs that come from vaccinated birds hatch chicks naturally resistant to Mareks?