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I'm getting 2 new societies tomorrow and I have to quarantine them for a month, but I read that you should place the quarantined birds in a different room. Why is that? If I put the quarantining birds on one side of the room and the healthy birds on the other (the room is 20 ft long) will it be the considered the same as seperate rooms since most rooms aren't that large? Also, when you purchase new birds from different places but at the same time, should these birds quarantined in seperate rooms also, as if one was healthy and the other wasn't?

Congrats on your new birds. As to why quarantine in separate rooms, I believe it is in case they have any illness that could be airborn, in which case I don't believe 20ft would be enough... As for the second question, I really can't answer , but someone will surely help you shortly.

Post pics when you get the chance.

Quarantining is separate rooms to prevent airborne disease will only work if you have a negative flow room with bacterial filters (like hospitals do to prevent airborne disease from spreading throughout the hospital).

If you have forced air heat/cooling the bacteria will flow throughout the house anyway as you move about so it is almost virtually impossible to prevent airborne contamination.

For other diseases that are not airborne...quarantine works great as long as you wash hands and change clothes before touching the other birds.

If you get birds from two places yes they should be seperated in quarentine because one could be sick and make the others sick both should be kept away from you old birds,It seems like a big hassle but you can bring some sickness into your flock and lose all your birds ,not often but it can happen

FeatherHarp wrote: If you have forced air heat/cooling the bacteria will flow throughout the house anyway as you move about so it is almost virtually impossible to prevent airborne contamination.

So basically it doesn't matter WHERE I put the quaranting birds, as long as they in no way can physically contact the others?

B CAMP wrote:If you get birds from two places yes they should be seperated in quarentine because one could be sick and make the others sick both should be kept away from you old birds,It seems like a big hassle but you can bring some sickness into your flock and lose all your birds ,not often but it can happen

Thanks, I figured that but was just making sure. If one bird is sick the other may not be and then you're risking both, not good.

Pretty much Dominic....but you still wouldn't want to put them right next to your established birds since contaminated feathers could migrate to a close by cage....a separate room would be the best possible effort to minimize contamination even though it won't be 100%.

Just like the H1N1 Flue....many people seem to think wearing a mask will block the virus but the "so called medical experts" say that the flu bacteria is so small it will pass through the mask anyway.

Now where did I put my HazMat suit....I know it is around here somewhere....

They say the best quarantine is in a completely separate building, but how many of us have a 'quarantine building'? You do the best you can with what you have, so separate rooms has to do for many of us.