Münchausen by proxy by an animal care-giver? (I wonder if there's a different term for it?) I was figuring some trolling was going on, but in my opinion it's criminal if there are real lives at stake here.
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Münchausen by proxy by an animal care-giver? (I wonder if there's a different term for it?) I was figuring some trolling was going on, but in my opinion it's criminal if there are real lives at stake here.
Coccidiosis is not a bacteria, it's a protozoa and can only infect other chickens. Yes, people can get it, but not from chickens.
-Kathy
-Kathy
I don't know exactly how many people did suggest it. Do you know?The watermelon was fine. This is the first time in my 7 years of chicken farming that this has happened. I haven't changed a thing since I have started. Do you have any suggestions of what I might need to change? I have fed my chickens produce every day for years, and this has never happened before.
Thank you for your advice,
Maddie~
Produce does not cause cocci, it is a parasite. It's been a VERY wet year and that is all it takes for them to become out of control. Or maybe you had a friend over that has chickens that has a different strain of cocci than your birds, and they were not immune to it, or or, there could be a thousand and one ways this year was different than your past 7. You asked what you might need to change? When the majority of adults suggest a solution to you for a problem you asked help for? Listen to them would be my advise.
I raised chickens for years and years then stopped for a while. I am MUCH older than you are dear and I had to learn many new things in "chicken farming" that was not available nor known back when I was breeding and showing mine and my Dad's chickens or even when I had my own kids and they were showing ours. It's not a bad thing, it's a learning thing. We will always be learning new things until the day we leave this big ole earth for a better place!
I hope you have some chickens left and am so sorry those other chickens had to give their lives over this. I hope you at least learned that advise from many, in a dire case like this, should be taken and tried. When ANY life is at stake, it's time to put our pride aside, and listen. We have all had to do that at one point or another in our lives, even us older folk
If you do still have any sick chickens left, please do get some Corid, or similar meds, for them and give it a try, for the chickens sake if nothing else and by the way, I didn't know about cocci until last year and had to learn myself. Luckily, age taught me to listen so none of my chickens died. This year I am still battling it with the young un's. I have a very strong strain of it on my property, apparently, so I knew from what everyone told me, last year, right off, and have been treating mine for cocci. I even learned some new things this year about it and I thought I had learned all I needed to know last year. I truly hope your chickens are doing ok now?
Kathy- That is good to know. I knew it was transmittable from cattle to human, glad to hear it cant transmit from chickens though. We haven't had to deal with it in our backyard flock yet but it was fairly common with the cattle and swine. I have always been a bit paranoid about it after watching my bro get so sick.
Looks like a pretty scary thing to get ( I just looked it up). Thanks, I learned something new today!
-Kathy
I was looking it up too in the journal of parasitology (crazy sounding I know) and it breaks down the sub categories by which vertebrate each strain infects. The article mostly deals with experimental inoculation and infection. But learning the subcategories was nice. I will keep looking for a more up to date article though. This one is definitely outdated but it has the breakdown in the first and second paragraph if you want to read it. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3282381?uid=2&uid=4&sid=21104523646533
Kathy, I think this is just a kid that got their hackels up and got stubborn over the whole thing. From the looks of the picture, if so, it is a VERY young kid at that, maybe 12? She mentioned about her Mom and is using kid texting typing also, guessing here, but think she just took this all wrong and dug her feet in hard. Sad that the chickens had to die because of it though
I really have a hard time on these threads and have to take frequent breaks from things just like this. It hurts my heart for the animals too much!!!
Kathy-
That was a good article, Thanks!
That was a good article, Thanks!
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