These outbreaks among the chicken population is somewhat concerning...

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I saw more articles come out on these outbreaks, and I hope that enough chicken farmers get their flocks inoculated before its too late. See the little tidbit I posted below:

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'The quicker we can start vaccinating our nation's poultry flock, the quicker we can get back to normalized operations,' said Hickman.
Hickman Farms is just the largest of several that have been affected in Arizona. On June 2, the Arizona Department of Agriculture confirmed that another farm in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area was placed under quarantine. The farm still remains unnamed, but per their press release, poultry began showing symptoms on May and tested positive on May 30.
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My follow up questions are mainly how they inoculate such a massive number of chickens in one place/one building, put the vaccine in their feed? Surely they don't go and shot up each and every single bird with a shot? The mechanics of doing this seem rather awkward.

I am supposing that smaller, private flocks are somewhat safe, being less chances of being exposed to any hostile pathogens.

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1. 4 ways to vaccinate

https://www.wikihow.com/Vaccinate-Chickens

4 Ways to Vaccinate Your Chickens (+ Prepping & Cleaning Up)
Plus how to check your chickens are healthy enough to vaccinate

Co-authored by wikiHow Staff
Last Updated: November 12, 2024

Inject the vaccine subcutaneously by inserting the needle into the chicken's skin.

Administer a vaccine into the chicken's eyes using an eyedropper.

Mix vaccines into the chickens' drinking water so they can drink it.

Inject the vaccine into their wing using a wing web applicator

(Drinking water method probably used by large producers.)

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2. Thank you so much!! I did have a few chickens when I was very young (or my grandma/great grandma did), so

I didn't recall what if any vaccines that they got back then.

Thanks again!!

Update: My grandma / great grandma would have eggs delivered by one of their literally next door neighbors (about a mile away), so that was nice. Back then when folks got into serving their neighbors one on one. A different world I suspect from today's.