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What is the recommended quarantine for new birds? Ive been given a silkie to make upa safe 3 now the cockerel has gone, and have got her in a seperate run with seperate utensils etc. in case she develops any illnesses she could be harbouring with the stress of the move. I was going to keep her seperate 2 or 3 weeks as I understand Mareks is rife in Silkies, and they dont always get paralysis but die of cancer later instead in some cases. I know Im panicking after what happened with the resp infection but when ~I looked it up mareks can incubate forever! When is it safe to put her in an adjoining run prior to intigrating her. what should I look out for? Realistically from what ive read and experienced its always risky introducing new birds...especially silkies becase of this. All I can do is minimise the risk. My silkies are seperate to my layers.
