Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[MyHaven]

Sounds like one of the upper respiratory diseases . Mycoplasma gallisepticum and even infectious bronchitis will cause symptoms like sinus infection , swollen eyes and rattling when they breath. Have you introduced new birds recently ?

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044

Either way the treatment is pretty much the same , 5 days of erythromycin or gentamicin , if you can find some.

Thanks will try to source.

First fatality. One buttercup dead when I got home. I was worried the young ones wouldn't be strong enough.

Yes I have introduced birds. They were quarantined for 6weeks. Do you know the incubation period?

Edited to add: I just checked and the antibiotic I ordered today will treat it. Vetafarm triple C. It will be available to collect at 2pm.

 

[appps]

Oh no, I'm sorry.  I hope it's a minor inconvenience and not something "really  bad".  Unfortunately I don't know anything and can't help

I don't know how they grow the garlic overseas, all I know is that I bought some once and it never sprouted....  You know, when it gets a bit long in the tooth, it sprouts.  No signs of life at all.  I found that very odd.  (BTW, you can get white-skinned garlic from Australia, the white and purple are just different varieties.)  

Yeah garlic is one thing I hate buying. It's not easy to find Australian grown, we don't have a big garlic industry here. The imported stuff is grown in places like China with who knows what sprayed on them (and possibly fertilised with human waste) then they spray it with a growth inhibitor to stop it sprouting on the way here. Then it gets sprayed again to make sure there are no pests.

I'm growing my own, you can get Australian garlic to grow from nurseries and seed places. I'm growing the purple this year as well as one elephant garlic as a trial. Huge cloves but apparently they are quite mild.

Check your minced garlic. Was reading a website for Australian garlic industry and it was saying a large portion of our garlic crop goes into mincing so there are jars of Aussie made.

 

[User395221]

but if I have to buy it , I only buy locally grown.

I don't grow it (yet!) but I only buy local stuff. The sad part is that it usually doesn't look as "nice" as the mutant zombie strains from overseas and it's more expensive so those going by appearance may choose the foreign stuff. Same with lemons. Lemons grow terrifically here. Those with a tree give away truckloads. And yet, at the shop, they are these weird, plastic-looking things from California. They are SUPPOSED to be all weird-shaped and have the odd spot on them. That's what nature does. I don't know what they do in America to churn out the plastic fruit and I don't want to know......

 

[Fancychooklady]

Thanks will try to source.

First fatality. One buttercup dead when I got home. I was worried the young ones wouldn't be strong enough.

Yes I have introduced birds. They were quarantined for 6weeks. Do you know the incubation period?

Oh sorry. . Problem is that the birds remain ' carriers ', so any of the new birds may have been masking symptoms.

 

[MyHaven]

Oh sorry. . Problem is that the birds remain ' carriers ', so any of the new birds may have been masking symptoms.

Do they remain carriers for long or life? I'd sold/gifted some of them. I had no intention of letting them go while sick. But I wasn't planning on keeping them forever.

I edited my other post to say I just checked and the antibiotic I ordered today will treat it. Vetafarm triple C. It will be available to collect at 2pm.

 

[User395221]

First fatality. One buttercup dead when I got home. I was worried the young ones wouldn't be strong enough.

I'm so sorry. I hope the antibiotics sort it for everyone else.

 

[MyHaven]

I'm so sorry.    I hope the antibiotics sort it for everyone else. 

Thanks heaps. I always hatch my own normally to avoid this. On the occasions where I do get a bird I am sure and quarantine. This year I bought in a few birds for the first time in a long time.

 

[MyHaven]

It's actually called a ' jap ' pumpkin which literally means ' just another pumpkin ' . Here in tassie it was ' politically incorrect ' to call them ' jap ' so they are called Kent. I find the skin much thinner than that of the Queensland blue and it's much sweeter.
Yeah ditch the mixer , this way there are no dirty dishes and it keeps them occupied for longer.

We can still call them Jap in Qld but I think I have heard them referred to as Kent. It's just a nicer pumpkin especially baked. Canadians think we are crazy eating cattle fodder though.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Do they remain carriers for long or life? I'd sold/gifted some of them. I had no intention of letting them go while sick. But I wasn't planning on keeping them forever.

I edited my other post to say I just checked and the antibiotic I ordered today will treat it. Vetafarm triple C. It will be available to collect at 2pm.

Those that survive remain carriers but that is in the case of MG the problem with these upper respiratory diseases is that the symptoms are very similar. Fingers crossed its just the milder bronchitis.
The birds tend to relapse when they are stressed, sometimes it will just be the ' rales ' or rattling in their chest and others might just get the mucous . At this stage antibiotics will help, but you can't eat the eggs.

 

[MyHaven]

It's good to have a day to remember the past,  to thank those serving now and to pray that our children never have to live through a war here.

Have a great day everyone.

And to consider how we can support our vets better so we loose less of them after they return home.

I'd just never get over loosing a child.