blackhead????

[Choctaw Valley Farm]

The only time I treat mine for Blackhead is if I see signs of it, with birds being on the ground you don't have to feed them earth worms when it rains they will come out of the ground and you birds will eat them, so you need to worm your birds at least 2 times a year and sometimes more.

Well you could say 4 times. First round Feb the again in March then after breeding season Oct , Nov.
Steve

 

[KWAK]

so i cant find Metronidazole any where here all of the pet stors have closed down here! GAH!!!

 

[6littlechickies]

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Believe this is also called Flagyl and is available from a doctor or vet by prescription.

 

[deerman]

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Agree Steve, I worm 3 times a year , or guess 6 if you count two type of wormers. You can also try to kill the earth worms also.

I try my best to keep this disease, out of my peafowl flock. Reason I don't let chickens around them(some can be carriers). Would never think of feeding earth worms, Alway keep the birds wormed, because you can never keep them from eating earth worms. Never let other people in my pens. Copy the following from another site....just to show danger of keeping chicken withpeafowl and turkey. Something my father told me over 50 years ago, about turkey. Thanks to his info on turkey , i have raise poult many times without any lost. I carry that info over to peafowl also.



It is common that veterinarians and other investigators are unable to find Heterakis worms associated with outbreaks in turkeys. If the above discussion is considered, then it would be logical that the infection comes from outside the flock, probably tracked inside by a worker on the shoes. The source of such contamination is most likely chickens, which are often found not too distant from the turkey flock.

A review of the literature shows that chickens, among the domestic gallinaceous birds, are the best hosts for Heterakis worms, and that the eggs produced by these worms in chickens are the best for causing disease when inoculated into turkeys. Lund and Chute (1969) found that young chickens were 16 times as effective as mature chickens in hosting caecal worms, and that young turkeys were almost negligible in this respect. Lund and Chute (1973) tested eight species of gallinaceous birds and found that the Chinese ringneck pheasant was the best host for caecal worms, followed by chickens and guinea fowl.

In modern poultry production, it is not unusual for farms used for one type of poultry to be converted to rearing of another type. Probably the most disastrous example is the conversion of broiler breeder farms to the rearing of turkeys. It is commonly agreed that all broiler breeder farms are heavily contaminated with caecal worm (Heterakis gallinarum) eggs, which are the only known biological vector of the blackhead organism. (Earthworms can harbour caecal worms until they are eaten by chickens or turkeys, but this is only an 'extra' reservoir of infection and not a necessary part of the life cycle). Such farms reportedly remain infective to turkeys for many years.

 

[slc]

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Believe this is also called Flagyl and is available from a doctor or vet by prescription.

Fish-zole is the same thing, no perscription necessary.

You can get it from Randal Burkey online: http://www.randallburkey.com/Fish-Zole-Tablets-30-CT/productinfo/27036/

 

[KWAK]

thankS!

 

[chickenzoo]

yes, Fish zole is the same thing. Jeffers Pet has it in the fish med department. 250 mg give down the throat 2 x a day for 5 days for adult peafowl and turkey.

Symptoms are often: off feed or nibbling at it but not really eating. Drinking more water, depressed, sleeping a lot, wings down, darking about the skin on the face (seen more in turkeys ) bright sulfur colored poo, loss of weight then death.