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Question of conscious? I am vehemently opposed to antibiotics in meat birds... But when it comes to layers or breeding stock I'm divided... Mycoplasma infection is common in my part of the country. If one bird gets sick, I isolate it and treat it. If more than one bird gets sick I treat the flock. Treatment includes antibiotics for seven days. During treatment and after treatment for a week I get rid of the eggs (aka compost). Am I a hypocrite? I see three choices when birds get sick. 1) do nothing and hope for the best. Bird generally dies. 2) Isolate the bird, do nothing and bird generally dies. 3) treat the issue and do right by your bird. Bird generally lives.

Am I over thinking this or am I on point? My customers want antibiotic free birds and eggs.

Thanks for your opinions.
 
rjohns39 said:
Question of conscious? I am vehemently opposed to antibiotics in meat birds... But when it comes to layers or breeding stock I'm divided... Mycoplasma infection is common in my part of the country. If one bird gets sick, I isolate it and treat it. If more than one bird gets sick I treat the flock. Treatment includes antibiotics for seven days. During treatment and after treatment for a week I get rid of the eggs (aka compost). Am I a hypocrite? I see three choices when birds get sick. 1) do nothing and hope for the best. Bird generally dies. 2) Isolate the bird, do nothing and bird generally dies. 3) treat the issue and do right by your bird. Bird generally lives.

Am I over thinking this or am I on point? My customers want antibiotic free birds and eggs.

Thanks for your opinions.
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You may have missed this discussion that went on earlier about treating birds. Everyone is welcome to do what they feel is the right thing to do when it comes to sick or injured poultry. I really don't know a lot about poultry diseases and their treatment because I use the option that you don't have listed. In the rare instance when I find a sickly bird in my flock, I immediately cull the sickly bird. My reason is that I have a very healthy flock and want to keep it that way. Anything that appears to be sick gets culled immediately to lessen the chances of whatever disease it is spreading through the rest of the flock. So far this has worked very well for me.
 
I isolate and do nothing...It was either minor and they live or major and they die..It is convenient though as the crematory is right next to the isolation area...If I think they are real bad, they go to the Gas Chamber, then the Crematory.

Mostly I have injuries though and not illness.
 
R2elk said:
The Expert and Go To guy for Turkey Color genetics is Kevin Porter of Porter's Rare Heritage Turkeys.

I have not made any effort to learn chicken color genetics but I do have a fair knowledge when it comes to Guinea color genetics.
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i thank you very much, you definitely have surpassed my knowledge and i greatly appreciate your help
someday i hope to learn more but at this point in my life i dont have the time to devote to it

-Liz
 
20170601_114556-1.jpg One of the BB's aka Thanksgiving Dinner
 

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