wet & dry pox!- which of hodge podge, non-commercial flock to vaccinate/treat?

[jjjennejjj]

 

[jjjennejjj]

I am not a breeder or doing any kind of business; my interest is purely to learn how to sustain a flock on our land for fresh eggs and learn how to care for them so that if it ever became worth it to process our own vs buy cleaned and already butchered at the grocery store.

 

[Kiki]

Poor thing. Are you sure this is fowl pox?

 

[Kiki]

Once your flock deals with fowl pox once they usually do not ever get it again.

 

[jjjennejjj]

The above pictures are from the batch of chickens i kept isolated away from my coop that was sick with pox and half the ones with the eye infections quit eating or drinking and died. I assumed they wet pox and possibly CRD/MG My plan was to wing web vaccinate (AE pox) wait several weeks then introduce them to the recovered hens in my coop, but they developed pox within weeks of getting the vaccine. These arrived as vaccinated day old chicks from a hatchery and have been kept completely separate from the mix i got from local breeders.

 

[jjjennejjj]

Kiki, I was hoping you would see this!

 

[jjjennejjj]

Did you see all the pictures? Is there anything else that you know of that it could be? I live in Hockley Northwest of Houston. The ones that survived in my coop seem great now. All my research says that chickens exposed to the rest of nature (not isolated in a commercial facility are likely to get MG from wild birds and whatever diseases mosquitos bring.

 

[Kiki]

The above pictures are from the batch of chickens i kept isolated away from my coop that was sick with pox and half the ones with the eye infections quit eating or drinking and died. I assumed they wet pox and possibly CRD/MG My plan was to wing web vaccinate (AE pox) wait several weeks then introduce them to the recovered hens in my coop, but they developed pox within weeks of getting the vaccine. These arrived as vaccinated day old chicks from a hatchery and have been kept completely separate from the mix i got from local breeders.

Pox and a respiratory type disease are two completely different things in my book.

Pox you get once and you're done with it.
Respiratory disease can come back after being treated.... It will never go away 99% of the time.


I don't want any respiratory disease in my flock and should I ever get one I would end the disease.

 

[Kiki]

Did you see all the pictures? Is there anything else that you know of that it could be? I live in Hockley Northwest of Houston. The ones that survived in my coop seem great now. All my research says that chickens exposed to the rest of nature (not isolated in a commercial facility are likely to get MG from wild birds and whatever diseases mosquitos bring.

This is not true. I've never had an illness in my flock and my birds are five and a half years old.

 

[Kiki]

Did you see all the pictures? Is there anything else that you know of that it could be? I live in Hockley Northwest of Houston. The ones that survived in my coop seem great now. All my research says that chickens exposed to the rest of nature (not isolated in a commercial facility are likely to get MG from wild birds and whatever diseases mosquitos bring.

The bird that's pictured.... Did it live or is it one that died?