All but one of my turkey poults died mysteriously!!!!!

It is no mystery that Turkey Poults die when they are not wormed and no medications are kept on hand for them.


SICK PEACOCKS, PHEASANTS, TURKEY, QUAIL and other Game Birds...If your Peacock is sick but has no congestion or other symptoms of a respiratory infection, it is highly likely it has a protozoan disease like Coccidiosis, Blackhead Hexamitiasis or Canker. These deadly protozoan diseases can only be effectively treated with anti-protozoal medications.

With the exception of Amprolium for Coccidiosis, all anti-protozoal medications have lost their FDA approval as feed additives in animals for human consumption. However, they are still approved for the treatment of animals not used for human consumption.

FOR TREATIJNG PROTOZOAN DISEASES you will need the antiprotozoals Ronidazole and Furaltadone found in Medpet 4 in 1.
FURALTADON is an anti-protozoal effective for Coccidiosis only. But, it is also a broad spectrum antibiotic that will treat respiratory and other bacterial infections like Salmonella and E. Coli.
RONIDAZOLE is an antiprotozoal effective for: Blackhead, Hexamitiasis and Canker.

In total, MedPet 4 in 1 is effective for the treatment of:

COCCIDIOSIS, BLACKHEAD, CANKER, HEXAMITIASIS, GIARDIASIS, SALMONELLA, PULLORUM & E. COLI…also Bacterial Gastroenteritis, Fowl Typhoid, Coryza, Colisepticemia, Infectious Synovitis, Pneumonia, Vibrionic Hepatitis, Mycoplasmosis, Colibacillosis, Staphylococcus, Air Sac infection and Conjunctivitis.

MedPet 4 in 1 can be purchased from Ebay and allbirdproducts.com Be sure to compare shipping cost. For convenience, purchase the powder that can be mixed with water. But it also comes in tablet form.

At the allbirdproducts.com site you can “Live Chat” with Kalvin, the Certified Avian Specialist.

As a preventative, give a wormer with the MedPet 4 in 1 because the deadly protozoans are transmitted by worms. Safeguard, at one half tsp per gallon of water for 3 days is recommended. It is also recommended to follow the MedPet 4 in 1 treatment with Probiotics. A recommended brand is Pigeon Biotics. Combining the Medpet 4 in 1 with the Safe Guard wormer for the same 3 days as the Medpet 4 in 1 preventative treatment is recommended as a measure to knock down protozoan populations and to clean out any subclinical infections while treating for worms.

MedPet 4 in 1 should be half strength for chicks under two weeks old.

WITH HOLD OYSTER SHELL GRIT, CALCIUM AND VITAMINS DURING TREATMENT. They can make the Furaltadone less effective.
 
It is no mystery that Turkey Poults die when they are not wormed and no medications are kept on hand for them. 


SICK PEACOCKS, PHEASANTS, TURKEY, QUAIL and other Game Birds...If your Peacock is sick but has no congestion or other symptoms of a respiratory infection, it is highly likely it has a protozoan disease like Coccidiosis, Blackhead Hexamitiasis or Canker. These deadly protozoan diseases can only be effectively treated with anti-protozoal medications. 

     With the exception of Amprolium for Coccidiosis, all anti-protozoal medications have lost their FDA approval as feed additives in animals for human consumption. However, they are still approved for the treatment of animals not used for human consumption.

     FOR TREATIJNG PROTOZOAN DISEASES you will need the antiprotozoals Ronidazole and Furaltadone found in Medpet 4 in 1. 
FURALTADON is an anti-protozoal effective for Coccidiosis only. But, it is also a broad spectrum antibiotic that will treat respiratory and other bacterial infections like Salmonella and E. Coli.  
RONIDAZOLE is an antiprotozoal effective for: Blackhead, Hexamitiasis and Canker. 

In total, MedPet 4 in 1 is effective for the treatment of:

COCCIDIOSIS, BLACKHEAD, CANKER, HEXAMITIASIS,       GIARDIASIS, SALMONELLA, PULLORUM & E. COLI…also Bacterial Gastroenteritis, Fowl Typhoid, Coryza, Colisepticemia, Infectious Synovitis, Pneumonia, Vibrionic Hepatitis, Mycoplasmosis, Colibacillosis, Staphylococcus, Air Sac infection and Conjunctivitis.

MedPet 4 in 1 can be purchased from Ebay and allbirdproducts.com  Be sure to compare shipping cost. For convenience, purchase the powder that can be mixed with water. But it also comes in tablet form. 

At the allbirdproducts.com site you can “Live Chat” with Kalvin, the Certified Avian Specialist. 

As a preventative, give a wormer with the MedPet 4 in 1 because the deadly protozoans are transmitted by worms. Safeguard, at one half tsp per gallon  of water for 3 days is recommended. It is also recommended to follow the MedPet 4 in 1 treatment with Probiotics. A recommended brand is Pigeon Biotics. Combining the Medpet 4 in 1 with the Safe Guard wormer for the same 3 days as the Medpet 4 in 1 preventative treatment is recommended as a measure to knock down protozoan populations and to clean out any subclinical infections while treating for worms.  

MedPet 4 in 1 should be half strength for chicks under two weeks old. 

WITH HOLD OYSTER SHELL GRIT, CALCIUM AND VITAMINS DURING TREATMENT. They can make the Furaltadone less effective.


I have a few issues with this post...

1) 1/2 teaspoon of Safeguard per gallon is *not* an effective dose. Giving too little medication can cause resistance. Best to have routine fecals done and treat accordingly. If fecals cannot be done, worm orally the proper amount of a broad spectrum wormer like Safeguard or Valbazen. If you must use wormer in water, look into getting something like Wormout Gel.

2) IMNSHO, Med Pet 4 in 1 should not be used as a preventative.

3) Proper doses of medications should be given orally based on weight of the bird.

-Kathy
 
Where do you live? I have raised peafowl and turkeys for 36 years in Renton Wa and I have never wormed my birds, never given them wormer and they have never had worms ever. The only time I ever gave a peahen a wormer it killed her and I greatly regret doing that when she was already ill.
 
Where do you live?  I have raised peafowl and turkeys for 36 years in Renton Wa and I have never wormed my birds, never given them wormer and they have never had worms ever.  The only time I ever gave a peahen a wormer it killed her and I greatly regret doing that when she was already ill.


Welcome to BYC!

Sorry you lost your hen. :( do you know why she was sick?

-Kathy
 
Hi Kathy, That was 2004, I never knew why she went down, she was very old. The wormer made her even more sick and she got winged by a car in her dazed condition and died that night. I never used a wormer again.

Today I am reading Backyard Chickens because I had a little baby turkey (Royal Palm) die after 5 days of healthy living. There are many posts here about little turkey chicks dying for no reason and it is so common the phenomena has been give the name: Early Poult Flip-overs I found a great paper on the subject here http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/content/78/2/178.abstract titled: "Factors influencing early poult flip-overs in experimental populations of turkeys"

It gave one cause as "young mothers" and this is my problem. Both my laying hens are only 6 months old when they laid these tiny 63 gram eggs! the only reason they laid this year is that they were hatched on Feb 2 of this year. We moved from Seattle to Pueblo and the length of the winter days in Pueblo fooled my old laying hens. They laid eggs in January and those eggs hatched Feb 2. These young hens from the Feb hatch laid eggs last month and did not know to set the eggs so I incubated them in a machine. Out of 32 eggs I have 5 healthy poults with 2 real small babies dying from a hatch of 7. I have lost poults like this on about day 5 for no reason before. The one thing they all had in common is that they were tiny little chicks with almost no rear end to their little bodies. I have never had a large poult die for no obvious reason.
We are noticing the very negative effects of high altitude and low humidity, the incubating machine had to be run with all vents open (oxygen is 20% less at 5500') and all water trays full, humidity=16% in Pueblo. In Seattle it was more like 70%
 

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