Recent content by Miriah132

Thank you all for the advice! We will be abandoning the old coop and setting up a new one in a completely different area though our last chickens were free ranged and we will disinfect the soil in the new area.

Should the soil they were around be treated as well?

what is everyone’s perfected method of disinfecting after a diseas outbreak? Specifically with an unknown resoiratory disease. We have no birds left from the flock and want to start a new flock. We are just going to bring in a few birds to a temporary coop and see how they do.

Will do. Thank you

Would that be a swab that I do myself? I figured I would need to find a state vet to do the testing.

Thank you. It’s heart breaking. I’ve worked so hard on this flock. I keep a pretty closed flock unless i bring in birds from reliable sources and always implement quarantine. I guess they heard that they were going to a show in few weeks and decided they didn’t want to go. Oral and I jectables...

Yes. Tylosin. I have a rathe rbig flock so we used the water soluble. For 7 days.

My flock has suffered from a respiratory disease. We have not tested to see which one it is yet. The last egg I got from them was August 6th. All my girls are under 2 years. I really noticed symptoms August 18th after we got some rain(we don’t get much rain where we are). Should I cull the...

I also have this pullet who has some grey in her breast. I’m sorry it’s jot the best picture, but how hard is this to breed out? Should I cull her or is it not that big of a deal in the standard?

I just noticed my cockerel has some predominately white tail feathers wth barring at the ends. Is this a disqualification? Or will this hopefully molt out?

It’s just bad Copper genes. You’ll have to selectively cull the offspring if you want to work up to nice copper coloring.

Thank you all for your responses. We started treating with tylan50 but it’s just not working out with treating 50+ chickens twice a day! Have any of you used the soluble powder? This would be much easier for us but I want to make sure I get the right one and hopefully one that isn’t $50+ if...

Heat yes, smoke no. It’s been about 105 average here. When the rain hit it got down to about 88 I think but that’s about it

Thank you for the info! Would the lab be able to just send me a test for me to do at home or would it be a draw blood and send it off type of thing? So if it is mg, most likely the birds will need to be culled? I can’t believe this is happening! Is there anything I can give to future...

How the heck does a closed flock get respiratory infection? I’m not exactly sure which specific infection it is. They sneeze a little bit during the day but at night is when you can really hear the gurgling when they breath. They do have nasal discharge but no other symptoms, they eat/drink/and...