3.6m Omlet Chicken Run for sale, Brand New in Boxes, Milton Keynes (MK19)

[grier]

Yesterday I had to have my very old Buff Orpington hen put to sleep because she had been getting increasingly worse with Mycoplasma symptoms, she was well over 8 years old. I have two other hens who are much younger and although they are displaying symptoms as well, they are very mild in comparison.

 

I really need some help with deciding what to do next, because I wanted to add to the flock, but feel that I would be sentencing them to the same fate. Even if I were to start afresh with an unaffected flock, I gather that they could pick it up from wild birds anyway.

 

Is it possible to get just a couple of new hens vaccinated? Or maybe to purchase birds that are already vaccinated?

 

Somebody help!!!!!!

[Redwing]

Most hybrids are vaccinated most pure breeds arent

 

Lots of birds are mistakenly disgnosed as having Myco, it seems to be the first diagnosis of some vets

[Egluntyne]

If you are wanting to purchase vaccinated birds, you will need to source them from one of the bigger breeders rather than a back yard hobby breeder. The vaccines are bought in industrial quantities, and administered in ways beyond the scope of those breeding a few chickens as a pastime.