Can the vaccine ship over the ocean? If it has to be refrigerated, I don't think I could get it where I live... ( A ship takes a few days to get here, and a plane takes 5 hours minimum )
I vaccinate all my chicks with the Mareks vaccine, between all the wild birds here and the feral chickens, the risk is fairly high. I am not arguing for or against vaccination, just letting you know you can get it to Hawaii if that is what you choose. I get the vaccine from either Valley Vet or Jeffers Pet. They do ship to Hawaii, and the shipping is expensive. I try to get a few bottles at a time to make the shipping more cost effective. It does have to be refrigerated and they do ship it express with cold packs.
Wow, that is great to know! I didn't expect it to ship here.I vaccinate all my chicks with the Mareks vaccine, between all the wild birds here and the feral chickens, the risk is fairly high. I am not arguing for or against vaccination, just letting you know you can get it to Hawaii if that is what you choose. I get the vaccine from either Valley Vet or Jeffers Pet. They do ship to Hawaii, and the shipping is expensive. I try to get a few bottles at a time to make the shipping more cost effective. It does have to be refrigerated and they do ship it express with cold packs.
Most backyard breeders here though do not vaccinate their chicks and the only way to get vaccinated birds is via a hatchery.
You are welcome.Wow, that is great to know! I didn't expect it to ship here.
I totally agree with you that backyard birds bring in diseases, half of my flock got fowl pox a while back. I will go check out the sites you mentioned, and even though I have been lucky not to deal with Mareks yet, it would still be smart to try and get my birds vaccinated.
You can only vaccinate for Mareks when they are very young, a few days old at most (some say less than 24 hours, though I have vaccinated later if waiting for other chicks to hatch). Mareks is transmitted through the dander, so really hard to protect them from this after a few days of age. Once they have been outside, you can't vaccinate them, and also fairly impossible to vaccinate them if they are hatched by a broody and not in an incubator.
Had my first case of fowl pox last year. Two hens infected. I vaccinated the rest of the flock- wing web poking. I don’t plan to get more chicks for 2 years. Even then, I will vaccinate all at 8 weeksYou are welcome.
Fowl pox is transmitted by mosquitos and it is recommended to vaccinate for this yearly. It is very common in Hawaii, and any tropical enviroment (Florida also). The vaccine that I was able to get for Fowl pox is the wing web kind and birds need to be at least 8 weeks of age.
That's the consensus from many others as well. If it were pecked it would probably be completely gone. I got 2 un-cracked eggs and 6 cracked eggs this week. I need to figure out how to line the nest. It's small (12"x18") and only has a 2" lip. When I put a carboard box there, it just got flipped. Everything messy and crushed.
here I am, still an airhead 
