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Try just giving your chickens plain water. They will likely stop turning up dead.
Plain water wont prevent myco. Plain water wont stop cocci. (Rudeness/name-calling edited by Staff-review rule #1 of BYC, please) This topic isn't about if I should drug my birds or not drug them I didnt...
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Interesting. How would that work with drugs that say I have to add them to a gallon of water? How do I know how much to give them individually if I use a syringe?
Its not just denagard its anything I add to the water. Like when I was treating for cocci I gave them amprol in the water. I see the water levels going down so some birds are drinking but some aren't. And a bird turns up dead from dehydration. I cant tell who is and who isn't drinking until its...
As far as I know none of my birds have myco. Every time one dies I get them checked and its always negative. I give them denagard to prevent mycoplasma from wild birds or just from someone coming over with contamination. Myco is far too common for me to take a chance with it.
But every time...
Thats what the pathology report keeps saying. Whenever I add denagard to the water , I see them drinking but there is always one chicken or two that die during the monthly prevention cycle. Same happens with pretty much anything I add to the water. The odd bird wont drink it and then I find them...