Urgent Reminder-PLEASE Quarantine Newly Acquired Birds!

[rcentner]

and...don't forget, healthy birds should be fed and watered before you touch any quarantined birds, diseases can be spread by our hands and clothing. After handling the quarantined birds be sure to wash your hands. I would go as far as to wear different shoes so I didn't track any unwanted bugs from one coop to another.

 

[Gypsi]

Wow - I just learned a lot, will be checking out the "sticky". I am fortunate, when I visited my customer with chickens and helped her set up the waterer I built her, I was wearing my pond shoes. Which get exposed to ponds, and periodic bleach dunkings, but never ever worn in my yard. Particularly fortunate, I spotted a dead fluffy pullet (some fancy breed or other) in her quarantine pen.

I had been thinking about borrowing a roo from her if one of my hens goes broody, I have cancelled that thought. What about getting some fertile eggs from her if I end up with a broody hen? Any advice on this? She lives in the country, and she is pushing 70, but overall her chickens are healthy. Predators are the biggest problem. She gets her stock from the feed store or hatches them out herself.

 

[ranchhand]

Oh darn, I meant to post somewhere else.... but good to remember anyway, especially since there are soooooo many started birds available right now!

 

[speckledhen]

I had been thinking about borrowing a roo from her if one of my hens goes broody, I have cancelled that thought. What about getting some fertile eggs from her if I end up with a broody hen? Any advice on this? She lives in the country, and she is pushing 70, but overall her chickens are healthy. Predators are the biggest problem. She gets her stock from the feed store or hatches them out herself.

Well, there is less chance of passing something vertically, down through the egg, than horizontally, i.e., through newly acquired birds. Of course, I don't know this lady or her birds, but the chance of disease transmission is less by hatching rather than bringing in a strange bird.

Also, hens don't automatically accept a new rooster anyway, so the stud roo idea may get both the hen and the rooster hurt. Hens aren't always pushovers, trust me, LOL.​

 

[Gypsi]

Thanks for your reply, Your Royal Henliness! (Love the title) I'll just hunt for eggs if a hen goes broody... And leave the Roos alone.

Gypsi

 

[speckledhen]

That title was voted on by the membership. Aren't they creative? lol

 

[Gypsi]

They are indeed creative - and that is a very regal chicken photo to match! (but is it a hen or a roo???)

 

[speckledhen]

That is my Delaware rooster, Isaac. He sure can strike a regal pose, can't he?

 

[Gypsi]

Quote:
That he can, quite royal!

 

[ranchhand]

Awwwww, look at that handsome Isaac!