Outstanding! I'm glad to hear most of the eggs from the sweet little hens are doing well. I had a group of 20 that I candled yesterday to find 19 were good. Not a bad ratio. I'll be very curious to see what my broody hen hatches out.
The chicken plague seems to be under control-- no more deaths since last Saturday and all of them look to be doing well. I took the one dead chick I had to the vet diagnostic lab and should hear back from them in about a week. Talked to their poultry specialist on the phone yesterday, too, and he feels that pullorum is pretty rare and unlikely, but he said there were several more salmonella species that would look mostly the same. A few are transmitted via egg and the birds will be shedders of the virus all their lives, but others are just cut and dry and won't be a future problem. For testing on the live birds, one has to wait until they are about 8 weeks old so they are able to get a decent blood sample. If the vet diagnostic lab doesn't come back with something definitive, I'll probably have to wait until the remaining Isbars are old enough to test. He did recommend I keep them quarantined until I had something definitive, though. Which, of course, we are already doing. What a pain in the butt this has been!
My only other hens I have are the 2 buffs, my red, fanny, the big cochin, and my EE. It's her. I'm just really confused.
