Virginia

[HappyChickenLover]

Actualy, state vets tell you, if you go to any of the testing courses. Its only a week quarantine that is required. I guess you can do 30 days if you want to over kill it, but I have not had issues with such problems. Chicks are usually another story because of their size, however allways be cautious and try to look for healthy looking birds.

 

[cubalaya]

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if the birds appear to be healthy you still need to quarantine at least 2 weeks, 30 days is best. to set up at our swaps you need to be a member of ecc and if selling your birds will be inspected by the swap promoter or site moderator.

 

[chickengrl]

I would still reccomend 30 days. A chicken can appear perfectly healthy and still be a carrier of the respiratory diseases. That amount of time allows the disease a chance to show itself. It isn't 100% foolproof by any means. Some breeders with very valuble breeding stock will even add a sacraficial chicken in with the new ones and wait to see if it gets sick. It may seem like overkill until you have to watch your birds die a horrible death because they are suffocating on their own mucous/snot. In the end, folks just have to decide what is right for them and go with it. I just wanted to put that out there for the folks new to chickens.

 

[aprophet]

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Is there stil a bird / stock auction in Danville ? thanks

 

[Barred Rocker]

There's going to be a chicken swap at 360 hardware in King William County on April 9th. Never been to this one before but I'm taking 2 Black Copper Marans cockerels, a Mille Fluer D'Uccle roo and a few barred rock hens. Does anyone know if they allow you to sell hatching eggs at swaps?

 

[AlienChick]

I'm not an expert on the hatching eggs at swaps, but when I was there, someone was selling eggs for eating and eggs for hatching.

Hopefully, someone who "knows the rules" will chime in here.

 

[bishopschickens]

I have never been to a swap where you couldn't sell hatching eggs. You will find them everywhere.

Brandon

 

[HappyChickenLover]

Well Saturday there is the swap at Expoland in Augusta County and also an auction at the Culpeper County fair grounds, off of Virginia 29

 

[Puckett]

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Is there stil a bird / stock auction in Danville ? thanks

Not real sure, but I think so. My understanding is it used to be pretty big. thanks for reminding of that, I had forgotten about it.

 

[MotherHen757]

Hello all!

I am in IOW county outside Carrsville...

We have an assortment of chickens, two goats, three dogs, two cats and a bunny...we are also incubating and have some baby cochins that are two weeks old and RIR, Barred Rock and Wyandottes in the incubator now!