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Coryza is one but mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) is another that, if treated, makes the bird a carrier and can be passed from the hens to the chicks.

True, but alot more diseases out there , where recovering birds are not carriers. Reason to cull all sick birds is a bad idea.

Like Steve said..Sinusitis is common in peafowl, and is cureable. So You shouldn't come on here and tell people to cull all birds that get a respiratory infection.

FROM YOUR POST. VERY BAD ADVICE.

"Also, if they get any type of respiratory illness, treating the illness only makes the bird become a carrier. The best treatment of a bird with respiratory infections is culling."
 
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Coryza is one but mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) is another that, if treated, makes the bird a carrier and can be passed from the hens to the chicks.

True, but alot more diseases out there , where recovering birds are not carriers. Reason to cull all sick birds is a bad idea.

Like Steve said..Sinusitis is common in peafowl, and is cureable. So You shouldn't come on here and tell people to cull all birds that get a respiratory infection.

FROM YOUR POST. VERY BAD ADVICE.

"Also, if they get any type of respiratory illness, treating the illness only makes the bird become a carrier. The best treatment of a bird with respiratory infections is culling."

What are the clinical signs of sinusitis? How can you tell if you have sinusitis and not MG? If you treat, symptoms of each would go away.
 
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True, but alot more diseases out there , where recovering birds are not carriers. Reason to cull all sick birds is a bad idea.

Like Steve said..Sinusitis is common in peafowl, and is cureable. So You shouldn't come on here and tell people to cull all birds that get a respiratory infection.

FROM YOUR POST. VERY BAD ADVICE.

"Also, if they get any type of respiratory illness, treating the illness only makes the bird become a carrier. The best treatment of a bird with respiratory infections is culling."

What are the clinical signs of sinusitis? How can you tell if you have sinusitis and not MG? If you treat, symptoms of each would go away.

You need to go ahead and kill all your sick birds to be safe,,,,,,,,Myself Am not talking about killing $1.00 quail, but birds that are worth alot more, I would cull birds that are going to be carriers....you are way off base here...you are talking about killing birds without knowing.

Sure hope most of the people on here see how dumb an idea you are talking about doing.

For the records some of those diseases you post, we have not had in the USA in over 30 years. But you better kill your bird that got sick ,because it may be the first one in 30 years.

I would welcome you to the peafowl world......but not with that kind of thinking. You would be killing them every time they got a cold.....
 
Shelley, no need to come to the peafowl section and start trouble like in the Quail section.

Here in the peafowl section , we are able to get along fine ,even when we don't agree.

Not like the quail section, where so many get locked.

OP ask about keeping peafowl with guinea fowl, not about culling sick birds.......why you turn this thread to that i think was wrong. Wonder why you do these thing. See why so much trouble in the quail section now.
 
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Well guess you better tell your vet ,to use spell check......
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we don't want any misspel wrod on hrer. Or save ur money ,just kill all the sick birds, no need to treat them........
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we don't want any misspel wrod on hrer. Or save ur money ,just kill all the sick birds, no need to treat them........
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"Hold on my $1500.00 Java has a runny nose, cheaper to put him down then to cure him I guess
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No, I would not put him down I would do everything I could to make him well again.

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This may not be the place for this, but my 5 year old peacock got sinusitis. I was so afraid at first of it being something contagious, he got the swollen sinus on one eye and everything. I thought it looked horrible. I did some research and found peafowl are prone to it in dusty conditions and guess what i had been doing in the pen right next to him earlier in the day?

I had been cleaning the chicken coop which was ATTACHED to his pen, and I still have all my winter tarps on as it hasnt gotten exactly warm here yet so he had no ventilation. He very well may be contagious but he is isolated and I have been dosing him with duramycin, the stuff you can buy for chickies in their drinking water, plus some medicated feed.

I KNOW this is not what is recommended but when I read injections of tylan caused muscle damage, and he is a fairly new peacock (bought him two months ago), he is NOT used to me yet and I was afraid of causing him yet more stress in trying to catch him, inject him, etc. espacially since I am a newb and dont know what I am doing. Also he is silver pied and very slender, and as I like to freerange I didnt want to cause him any muscle damage that might hurt him in the future.

It does seem to be working as his sinus swelling has gone down considerably, altho I realize its a much slower process than the injection.

Sorry if its seems I am hijacking thread...

Edited to say the meds are tetracycline, not duramycin. I am nervous about the down the throat as well as I am not sure he would hold his head still enough for me. I have seen pics so I know the basics. The swelling isnt completely down, and it does worry me. Its down a lot but not completely. I have him penned but he is VERY wary of me as I caught him to worm him once, and also my neighbors came and caught two of his pen mates and took them away, so he gets freaked out just by me coming in the pen with him right now,even tho I move slow and talk and sing to him. In his eyes, I am very bad news right now.
 
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If you catch him you can also give him 1cc of Tylan 200 down the throat (besure to go past the wind pipe) When I inject birds I give it to them at the base of there neck down by there back just under the skin this way will not cause muscle damage.

Not for sure but you may be able to put baytril in his water, I have never done it so don't know if you can our not.

Steve
 
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The correct spelling is:

Metronidazole not metranidazole

When you are going to correct someone publicly please be sure you yourself spell it correctly!
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Second - if my $400 bird has a runny nose I will not cull it, if my parakeet had a runny nose I would not kill that either. When I find a lost baby bird I do not cull it because it has health issues and fell out of the nest. Everything gets sick - that's life. Maybe if you valued life just a bit, you would not be so quick to take it away. Life is life, does not matter if it is human or animal. I bought about 25 peafowl eggs and all died before hatching, was such a disappointment to me so I bought the live birds - 2 died, again was very hurt and upset that they died. It took me a while to get were I am and I will not let a runny nose take my birds from me. Maybe you do not get attached to your birds but others here do and to tell someone to cull his or her birds is NOT your place to do. I do not understand how you still have the birds listed in your signature if you cull them each time they get sick?

Here's a quick note my dog has Lyme Disease and there is no cure so she is a carrier, what do we do about her? hmmmmm
 
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