Hi! I have some 5 week old chicks I’m needing to get out of the brooder and add to the flock,the thing is I’ve been dealing with fowl pox in my bigger birds but it’s clearing up. I really don’t want these babies to get it. How long after an outbreak can I wait to introduce them to lower the chance of them getting it? Will it help if I let them get older before putting them outside or are they just bound to get pox anyway ?
Fowl pox spreading
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Is there a chance you'd be able to vaccinate your chicks? Fowl pox vaccine is available online. It's administered via a needle to one of their wings. You'd have to keep them apart for another two-three weeks.
The pox scabs from your formerly sick chickens can stay active in the ground and area for many months. Cleaning and disinfecting the coop well as well as the outdoor areas they go would help.
The pox scabs from your formerly sick chickens can stay active in the ground and area for many months. Cleaning and disinfecting the coop well as well as the outdoor areas they go would help.
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Yes I was considering ordering the vaccine for them. Do you have any recommendations of what to use to disinfectant with? Also should I just go ahead and vax the rest of my chickens bc I only have 6 chicks. I’m sure there will be extra vaccine left and not all of my hens showed pox when I had the outbreak
We use Odoban. Mix 5 oz to a gallon, or they make sprays too. That's used in hatcheries and hospitals as well. Bleach also would work but I don't like to use that. That you'd mix 10% with water.
I'm no expert about vaccinating chickens for pox, but if it were me, I'd do the hens too.
Virkon S tablets mixed with water are also used to disinfect animal facilities, and are sold on Amazon. I think chickens have to be 8 weeks or older to have fowl pox vaccine. It takes a week to see if the vaccine takes or not. It is harder on chicks to have pox that older chickens, because they can get large swollen bumps on the face, beak, and around eyes where they may have trouble seeing food and water. Fowl pox virus spreads through mosquitoes and shed or pecked scabs. The shed scabs can become powdery and be inhaled by chickens which will expose them to the virus. Chickens who have pox are immune to that strain of pox for life. Here is some information about the pox vaccine from the manufacturer label:
https://valleyvet.cvpservice.com/product/view/1506010
https://valleyvet.cvpservice.com/product/view/1506010
Dont vaccinate birds that have already been infected with the fowl pox virus (including chicks), nor after they recover from the virus.
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