There are few issues with the swaps here...they are small and local.
And, they are well out in the open with plenty of space to avoid direct
contact. They are also monthly, with four weeks of non-use for the
grass areas where they are in between. If a bird looks even the
slightest bit ill, I stay well away. The main purpose of attending the
swaps is to network and to get known as someone who buys hatching eggs
and sells chickens.
You can only be so careful. A few years ago, the eight nearest turkey
operations were all wiped out by a case of black head cholera, and they
maintain as much bio-isolation as possible...including washing the
soles of your shoes in iodine on entering or leaving a turkey barn.
When my chicken population gets near 500, I will likely adopt that
practice as well. My neighbor still has a couple of gallons of the
iodine concentrate left. He and the next nearest one ceased operations
the summer I moved here...or I would not have. A fully operational
commercial turkey farm raises quite a stink.
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