Head Shaking/Bubbly Eyes

They will know if they have myco or any other respiratory infection in their flock.  Did your friend buy their hens before or after you ?

Sorry I think I overlapped with your reply. They bought theirs approx 6 months after us.

No I realise that, and I wish I had taken more time and looked at more places, but you know what it's like - you get really excited and don't want to wait!

With more experience behind us now, I think the standards may not have been as good as they could have been. It wasn't until we bought our next 3 from a different breeder we realised how much better and cleaner it seemed. The owner also showed a lot more interest in us and spent more time giving us advice and showing us around.

I just wondered whether you ever took breeders names off the website if you thought they weren't up-to-standard.

Having said that I wouldn't have been without our girls and everything in life is a learning process!

I will talk to the vet about it more.

If you bought them 2 years ago the myco infection they have now is probably noting to do with the original breeder. 

I'm now quite confused, has it come in with the new birds, have you recently bought them.

She could have got it from wild birds too.

I think we have found a vet who knows about chickens. I just have 2 more questions about Myco. Does it affect humans? (ie can they catch it, or carry it?) and will it affect the egg laying of the hen?

Thanks very much.
Jacky.
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