Urgent - Does anyone on here keep chickens?

If anyone does keep poultry please can you say as I need to know something about infectious diseases that can be communicated to chickens.

Yes I know about bird flu and foul pest but is there anything else. A client is buying land that has had chickens on it and he wants to buy a new flock to put on the same land, I can't have the hens dropping dead on him within a day of buying the land.

pm VIPER

googled chicken diseases....

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/ they have a forum...

Get hold of Viper, he maybe able to help.

Originally Posted by Mogs

Get hold of Viper, he maybe able to help.

NO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O!!!!!!!!

Isn't Viper a butcher?

Originally Posted by Ed

NO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O!!!!!!!!

Isn't Viper a butcher?

yeah.....but no.... but yeah....... but no


he has a farm

Nope.. but one day it would be neat to have a couple maybe... Love the idea of eggs fresh from the chicken's @rse for breakfast.


(more down to my idealistic tendency towards subsistence farming which I'm far too lazy to actually do... )

Just asked my colleague who keeps 20 odd chickens on his smallholding and he doesn't think there are any special precautions needed to put chickens on land where others have previously been. There are infectious diseases between birds but he doesn't think there's any issue with contamination of the land between one lot of occupants and the next.

Cheers Keith

[timwilky]

There are 140 diseases listed here

When we kept chickens we never had a problem of infection. however that predates avian flu etc. being passed from the wild population.

Best hens for me has to be Rhoadies. But we used to keep bamtams for the kids to look after

Originally Posted by timwilky

There are 140 diseases listed here

On the page:

"Choose a disease:


or select a disease from the list below"

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