What am I doing wrong????

[FortCluck]

And if your neighbors had diseased chickens, the diseases that they carried can still be in the soil. I'd keep your flock as far away from their land as possible.

when I move to my property it had previously had livestock on it and I had to verify with the owner that there was no disease present when they were on this property just for my own piece of mind.

If there was disease, at least if know what I was tackling.

Do you know what disease(s) their chickens had?

 

[21hens-incharge]

All under a year except one 6 year old hen. 12 currently. Yes we have never had troubles that we noticed except one eggbound hen. One of our neighbors used to have chickens (very diseased also) but they moved. Yes. Never. Quite a bit.

Did I read your answers correctly?

Yes you see wild birds near the chickens a lot.
Never have fed medicated chick feed.
Visit places with other chickens quite a bit.

 

[21hens-incharge]

What kind of mulch?
Where from?

Some mulches can harbor mites.

 

[igorsMistress]

I suggest you sanitize your coop. Virkon S specifically kills Mareks. Take out all the old bedding and put it in the trash not your compost pile.
Permethrine can be used to treat your coop even if your flock doesn't have mites or lice. I do mine quarterly as maintenance.
Your flock can have Mareks without symptoms. As long as they're still alive they're shedding the virus in their dander and it can infect any new flock members. Younger birds are at the greatest risk to die from it, but stress can cause outbreaks and your flock may be more susceptible to other diseases
Good luck.
FWIW I put all of my older birds down, sanitized coops and started over. I'm not saying that's for everyone, but it's what I did.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Pine mulch.
From the Side of the road.

Also here is some of the coop and run pictures I got. Device is slow so I couldn’t add more

Probably not the best source. Wild birds and other critters would have been in close contact with it. That can be yet another source for issues.

 

[cleoandtheflock]

Did I read your answers correctly?

Yes you see wild birds near the chickens a lot.
Never have fed medicated chick feed.
Visit places with other chickens quite a bit.

Your right

 

[cleoandtheflock]

There are some things that you can do to prevent diseases, but they're not 100% fail-proof.

- Don't ever wear shoes from a friend's farm or a fair or anything like that into where your chickens live. Disinfect your shoes if you go somewhere that has poultry or farm animals. you can spray Clorox bleach on the soles and wipe down your shoes with Clorox wipes.

- If you are introducing new birds make sure that they are not close to your older birds for a few weeks so that you can make sure they are disease-free.

- clean your animals feeders and waterers weekly. You can use Dawn dish soap and white vinegar, let them soak for a bit.

- Make sure your animals have adequate space in the coop and in their run

- do not put wild bird feeders anywhere near your birds and if you have free range birds, do not keep any bird feeders at all because wild birds carry lots of diseases.

- clean your coop regularly. It all depends on how many birds you have, many do it every couple days or once a week.

- give your birds vitamins and minerals, nutrition is a huge thing to keep their immune systems strong

- I add apple cider vinegar into all my waterers, it's a tablespoon per gallon. This helps keep algae and other things from building up in the waterers on hot or damp days.

What breeds do you have? Are you medicating the chicks when you get them? Where are you buying your chicks from? How big is your run and your coop? How many chickens do you have? When your chickens get sick, do you medicate them with antibiotics? Did anyone have animals on your property before you resided there (sometimes the diseases can come from animals that previously live there because some of the diseases that you mention do not go away for a length of time)? What do you use in the coop as a bedding? How often are you cleaning your coop and the yard that the chickens live in?

Answers to your questions in order-
Plymouth Rock, Cornish, Easter egger, and D’Uccles.
I don’t medicate the chicks they are already medicated.
I buy them from breeders, and I did buy one from a show/swap which I feel really bad about because I know you should never do that but she is very healthy and one of my sweetest birds and I had to have her.
They have a Big coop and huge run.
I have 12 chickens currently.
When my chickens are sick I either treat them myself or vet.
Someone had a poodle, I don’t know anything else.
I use pine shavings.
I put mulch in the yard and they do the rest, for the coop I change shavings in the nestboxes weekly, and I clean the poop board monthly.

 

[cleoandtheflock]

What kind of mulch?
Where from?

Some mulches can harbor mites.

Pine mulch.
From the Side of the road.

Also here is some of the coop and run pictures I got. Device is slow so I couldn’t add more

 

[cleoandtheflock]

You all have been so helpful thank you!

anymore advice and questions you have are welcome!!!