Boy do I know how you feel!I love having chickens but I hate this learning curve.....I wish I just had the confidence to try something but I guess it will come with experience!
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Boy do I know how you feel!I love having chickens but I hate this learning curve.....I wish I just had the confidence to try something but I guess it will come with experience!
I would just keep on with the turkey manure. Keep doing it and you shouldn't have any further issues of new Mareks outbreaks in your flock at all.wow! this is so timely, as I've been struggling with the idea of vaccinating future chicks/chickens with my flock having mareks. Its convinced me not to do that.....but another posting on one of the mareks's thread feels the study is not credible. I'm trying to find out why....
Hopefully it won't take a couple of weeks. With the loss of half of their growing space, they'll need to be out of it sooner. You might try just introducing for 3-4 days and have it so the rooster cannot get into either of their little compartments and only the smallest chicks can get into their own as well.Thanks guys
I liked the ideas and I think I'll try the chicks in the main coop tonight. I can put their brooder in there and leave their little door open, there's no way my big old rooster is fitting through that door! And I'll set up a couple other hiding spots, though the coop's not very big, it was built for 4 chickens who spend their days free-ranging.
Last night I divided the run that the 12week olds are using, so the chicks can use one end. I'll leave them like that for a couple weeks so they can see each other and maybe get used to each other a bit.
Hopefully it won't take a couple of weeks. With the loss of half of their growing space, they'll need to be out of it sooner. You might try just introducing for 3-4 days and have it so the rooster cannot get into either of their little compartments and only the smallest chicks can get into their own as well.
Don't force them out of their comfort zone as that is when problems will arise. Just open the partition so only they can get through it and they will venture forth when confident to do so.