This is a common occurance, where you could be gifted some chicken or buy some along your travels, that you want to integrate with your flock at home.
Our recommendation is not to add the new birds directly to your flock, as they could be disease carriers thus infect your existing birds, and in the worst case you could lose all of them. This has happened to other farmers
The approach we suggest you use is to isolate the birds and put them on a treatment regimen to ensure “most” disease is cleared before adding to your flock
| Day | Action | Notes |
| 1 | Antibiotic treatment for 5 days | Commmon is Tetracycline 10%, this will clear any infections that the birds have carried |
| 7 | Deworm | Worms are easily transmitted within the litter this is the next step |
| 9 | Newcastle + Infectious Bronchitis Vaccination | The two most common and deadly infections, this is done after the antibiotics and deworming |
| 11 | Vitamin for 3 days | Given all the medications this helps |
| 37 | Deworming | 30 days from the last deworming, and use a different dewormer to ensure all the different types of worms are removed |
| 39 | Newcastle + Infectious Bronchitis vaccination |
What approach have you used for your flocks?
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