Vaccinate or Not

[FortCluck]

I think so few chicken owners send a dead chicken for a necropsy, that the true infection rate is completely unknown. And since many chickens survive it, though still carry it - it's likely a much high rate of incidence than we think. Likewise - the weakened chicken could die from coccidiosis, or other illness, and the underlying infection would never be identified.

regardless - the chicks I'm ordering today will be vaccinated (except the cornishX)

Where are you ordering from?

 

[jolenesdad]

I think it has a lot to do with where you are, of course. And... something can be right under your nose without you knowing it exists. I’ve got to trust the scientists and vet that know way more than me and say it’s an issue.

I agree with @NHMountainMan and am also super curious to know how @Mixed flock enthusiast vaccinated IN the egg!

 

[FortCluck]

I still haven't received enough info to make me want to vaccinate if I ever got chicks from a hatchery.

Hopefully some more yes people can come in and share their experience and opinions

 

[NHMountainMan]

Where are you ordering from?

Meyer for the CornishX and freedom ranger hatchery for rangers. Then a few birds from Greenfire. It took me a while to work through grow out rates ()with help from BYC) so I can use the same brooder and heating plate.

 

[NHMountainMan]

I think it has a lot to do with where you are, of course. And... something can be right under your nose without you knowing it exists. I’ve got to trust the scientists and vet that know way more than me and say it’s an issue.

I agree with @NHMountainMan and am also super curious to know how @Mixed flock enthusiast vaccinated IN the egg!

Thanks for calling out the vaccination in egg - I had the same question!

 

[jolenesdad]

Meyer for the CornishX and freedom ranger hatchery for rangers. Then a few birds from Greenfire. It took me a while to work through grow out rates ()with help from BYC) so I can use the same brooder and heating plate.

What are you getting from green fire???

 

[NHMountainMan]

What are you getting from green fire???

not 100% sure yet.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Thanks for calling out the vaccination in egg - I had the same question!

It’s stressful but not really difficult to vaccinate in ovo. We decided to try this because we wanted to use broody hens, since integrating juveniles into our mean flock is stressful for the chicks. You are supposed to wait several weeks after vaccination to expose chicks to MDV, not just a few days like we did. So, we decided that if we only lost 1/2 of chicks to Marek’s that would be acceptable to us (chickens are a mother-daughter project so we try for joint decisions). I further guessed that we might lose another 1/2 of eggs to our inexperienced in ovo vaccination technique. Overall, expected 1/4 of eggs to be healthy adults. We’ve now vaccinated in ovo two batches of chicks. The first was all under a broody and had 100% hatch; all still alive at 8 months. The second batch had so much going on that I didn’t know how to assess our outcome. Some eggs were shipped and some home bred. We incubated then transferred under broody after vaccinating, but it was also very hot when we transferred. Only 2 chicks of 6 vaccinated embryos hatched. Those two are six mo now and still healthy, with one that just started laying. Here are some links to the technique: I used the dremel like the video, but from the top through the air cel, like the commercial in ovo vaccinator machine.
In ovo Vvccinationegginject.com


https://www.ceva.vn/en/Technical-In...rogram-Online/C.H.I.C.K.-Program-Online-No.20


3:32In ovo injection in chicks eggsYouTube · Julio Diaz BerrocosoMar 7, 2015

 

[Mamas_Looney_Farm]

I don’t vaccinate my chicks but I do buy them sometimes already vaccinated soo..?

 

[4 Georgia Hens]

I have never had a vaccinated chicken. I just don’t believe that the vaccinations are effective in what they claim to do. I think that they are mostly pointless.