Mycoplasma Infection- how to treat?

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its really sad to hear a mod say this oh well anyhow heres my 2 cents. Mycoplasmosis is a disease found in 90% of all poultry. It does not have a cell wall and is resistant to most antibiotics. the symptoms of mycoplasmosis are the same for MG/MS and the sad truth is 90% of all birds tested in the world including all hatchery stock have tested positive for Mycoplasmosis. Every Cattle,Swine,Poultry,and even goats,sheeps have all tested positive for mycoplasmosis.
I get so tired of hearing people on this forum tell others to kill your birds. When in reality there flocks have mycoplasmosis as well. True enough they might never show one single symptom. my State Doctor DR.Herring told me a healthy bird is a happy Bird. meaning if your birds never endure stress then they might not ever show symptoms. Unless you raise your birds in an air tight place with ventilation and never let the birds on the ground Ever. and No mouse or rat can enter the building what so ever, you disinfect your feet hands and body and you wear safty suits and disinfect head to toe upon entering each and every coop you might have a 100% clean flock.
the problem with mycoplasmosis is its a gateway to several other diseases like MG/MS Coriza, Airsack cultis, CRD, pnumonia, The best way to treat this is to medicate the bird using several choices, I will give you the meds in order of best to worse, Baytril (must be prescribed by vet) tylan 200, LS-50, Tylan -50, also theres a pig medication called denagard it works wonders,
Do not kill the bird keep her seperated from your flock and see what her symptoms appear to become. in recent studys in austrilia denagard has removed even traces of mycoplasmosis,
So that I dont get into a large debate with any mods here or violate any rules you may Pm me or contact me if you wish to seek more advice in private, I work with my department of agriculture, and i have very strict bio security on my farm all outlined by my Department of Agriculture state vet. I listened to some of the byc people long ago and culled some sick birds, when I sent one in for testing I tested clean so I murdered my birds for no reason at all. the red dirt dust was effecting there breathing since it was harvest time and dust was flying all over the country side. take 90% of what people say on these forums with a grain of salt. and Contact the people that get paid to anwser these questions in your local department of agriculture

What does being a moderator have to do with it? Nothing, not one thing. I'm a member first of all. And my volunteer job does not change the facts about disease. My flock does not have MG and I will never believe that almost every flock in America has it. If you keep telling folks that, they'll just become lax about biosecurity. Certain diseases may be more prevalent in certain regions of the country, but to make a blanket statement about "90%" doesn't encourage anyone to try to stop the spread of disease.

I also said, in case you missed it, "If it was me....". And I would do exactly what I said, if I bought started birds, which I do not, for reasons illustrated by the OP's dilemma. If you sold me one of your MG-positive birds and you knew about it, that would be completely unethical, in my opinion. I don't want your carrier birds or anyone else's. That is how this crud gets passed around, by people thinking it doesn't matter, that oh, well, they all have it, so what the hey?

What would you have me tell her? Yeah, treat it, even if it may be a viral illness or worse, one that makes carriers, and you may never get it out of your flock and when you sell birds/chicks/eggs, you will cause heartache in someone else's flock? Sorry, you won't get that from me, not ever. Yes, sure, she can try to treat this hen, and if she has never had MG in her flock, or whatever this hen has, she just put it in there knowingly. How is that a good option? It might be slightly different if she already has a carrier flock and is careful not to pass the germs to other people's flocks by closing hers, but if she has any idea that she will sell chicks, eggs or that hen to someone else, then she needs to know the facts. Period. This is a newly acquired bird and if there is no disease in the flock, why knowingly add it? I repeat, that is what quarantine is for, to keep disease out.

My carrier birds??????????? lets get facts straight right now ma'am My birds are tested quarter annually I can post every test result I have ever recieved. Dare you say my infected birds you probably arent even on my level of Bio security.
Second I nor you are a proffesional in diagnosing poultry diseases. at the bottom of my post it states to contact a proffesional, also I am not here to argue with you nor will I stoop to that level. But I run a good healthy clean business dare you insult my flock or my birds. The poster said she thought it was MG, Not that she knew for sure do you know how many different diseases and sickeness's share the same symptoms?
You might really want to watch what you say about peole and there flocks I do not disrespect anyone on these forums, I spend my days trying to help others in raising successful flocks? Do you know how many People contact me for advice? Do you know how many birds i have saved? You are correct IF your bird is MG positive Culling is definatly the method, This requires blood samples and swabbing to test, the best method is a necropsy, Thus the reason to keep a tight quarinteen area. My quarinteen pen is a sealed feed room with only one ventalition area that blows south of my farm at the back of my property. No chickens have access in or out of the barn period. Upon every new arrival of birds to my farm there placed in quarinteen and Vickie the state tester of Oklahoma Comes and test every last bird they then go 30 days in quarinteen before released onto the farm. whats yours a cage?
Oh yea and btw Mycoplasmosis is not MG go do some research I said specifically Mycoplasmosis not mycoplasma 2 different things Good day to you.

Went to the vet a few hours ago, got her tested, turns out she just has a bad cold that makes her have the same symptoms as MG. Thanks so much for your help you guys! The vet gave me some medicine to give to her so I'm pretty sure she will be okay!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOT GO GO girl No culling today.................................................
Edited to say. the OP is one more chicken up and Speckled would have killed her bird for no reason Sigh got to love it eh?

To avoid further flaming of a well respected VERY experienced poultry keeper I am closing this thread.

The staff here are members first. We are "allowed" to participate as members and give opinions in order to help others.

If you don't agree with the advice that is fine. But watch the tone and make sure you are civil about it.