Single silkie post-Mareks - Options?

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Your lone hen will be okay until you can bring some new chicks on board. There's no rush. With daily attention, she will be fine. Introducing new chicks to the hen will be easy once they have developed resistance from the vaccine. You can wait and buy them come April from your local feed store and vaccinate them yourself, buying the vaccine online from an outlet I can give you the info on.

I would suggest not chancing mailorder chicks since the post office is only becoming slower and more unreliable thanks to the evil postmaster general we have. Three-day express now takes a minimum of five days, too long for chicks to be expected to survive without heat and water.

Thank you.