California - Northern

[SpringPeeper]

I bleached to clean things up. and I looked all the info up after I got the report. The vet said that that type of vaccine is not available. but even my hatchery birds are dying from it. Its odd because the poop all looks normal.

I ordered corid waiting for it to come in.

I also read that the older chickens often are not effected so much by meriks and cocci, but they are dying too.

i will toss in some oregano too

anyone know if garlic upsets chicken digest? I know it is antiviral too. along with honey. I may make some raw honey coconut cakes with herbs and feed it to them.

it just seems to have become a pandemic for my coop they have slight nazal discharge but the necropsy dais nothign of the sort. just that the brain and organs were at an infected stage. So I take it this is an 'active' version of meriks if there is such a thing. I would loose 1-3 chicken a year to an unknown cause, looked like broken necks. 19 since June is nuts. necks are not dangling. I know its a waiting game now. Hope some make it.

I give my chickens garlic semi-regularly and have never noticed it upsetting their digestive systems at all.

I hope having some answers helps you get a handle on it. It has to be really discouraging. I'm sorry your flock has been hit so hard.

 

[tridentk9]

anyone know if garlic upsets chicken digest?

Garlic can affect the ability of the red blood cells to transport oxygen.

 

[chrissyr]

I keep a list of anecdotal failures of sexing methods when people start talking about how good wing sexing dangling legs spur bumoing etc..etc..etc... are.

It annoys me when people sell them sexed and get what your getting!

I once saw advertised (keep in mind, I'm rembering here):
Sexed chicks
(Disclaimer at bottom)
*sexing chicks is an art. Sometimes I'm wrong. If I am I will give you back the price of the chick.
I won't take back roosters and won't replace with a pullet of older age"

So it's not accurate enough for most to advertise.
At least the one I saw was going to give the chick price back. Yet then you have people who can't have boys but end up with them.
I think they were doing feather.
Now my oe's I can tell at a 1-2 weeks . Not at hatch. The girls get tails quickly, the boys, not until 3 months.

 

[chrissyr]

Oregano is good for viruses too.

cocci only has two strains that have blood in the poo. You really cannot get rid of it with bleach and etc. usually at 2 t 4 weeks you will have to start treating for cocci. You can also look into resistant breeds and strains. 20% corid powder works very well for me.

Mareks is everywhere so the wild birds do bring it in. There is nothing you can do about it for the ones hatched. Vaccinating may not be very effective--the best way is to inoculate the egg before it hatches like the hatcheries but I do not think they sell that vaccine to us.

wonder why we can't get that vaccine? Doesn't seem right.
So if mareks is an issue in a flock, how do you get new birds? Just vaccinate and hope they overcome it?
Just wondering how people get through it since it's deemed scary but everywhere

 

[tls_ranch]

Finally got a new camera I only had my " flip phone" or an iPad to take pictures with for the last few months.

First chicken pics with the new camera.

I'm still learning how to use it. But, I got some pictures of my son at soccer last night and I managed to catch clear action shots from across the field

 

[Kaylish]

Finally got a new camera I only had my " flip phone" or an iPad to take pictures with for the last few months.

First chicken pics with the new camera.





I'm still learning how to use it. But, I got some pictures of my son at soccer last night and I managed to catch clear action shots from across the field

Yea for new cameras! Beautiful birds too.

 

[PetRock]

wonder why we can't get that vaccine? Doesn't seem right.
So if mareks is an issue in a flock, how do you get new birds? Just vaccinate and hope they overcome it?
Just wondering how people get through it since it's deemed scary but everywhere

I've only had chickens for 4 1/2 years but have had 5 cases of Mareks in that time period. Only 1 was the tumor kind and it was a 2 yr old hatchery Speckled Sussex who had been vaccinated at the hatchery. The other 4 cases were all French Black Copper Marans and they came down with the paralysis form at 6-10 weeks. I have not had a single case of it in the past 1 1/2 yr but I've also stopped trying to raise FBCM. I have hatched out around 200 Pita Pinta, Pita Pinta mix, and Langshan chicks this year with no Mareks. Perhaps my 2 chosen breeds have some natural resistance to it? My flock here in town yard ranges my 1/3 acre yard and there are lots of trees and bushes so lots of wild birds. I swear that we are a migration stop over point for several kinds of birds so there is no way to prevent my birds from having contact with wild bird droppings, etc.

 

[PetRock]

Finally got a new camera I only had my " flip phone" or an iPad to take pictures with for the last few months.

First chicken pics with the new camera.





I'm still learning how to use it. But, I got some pictures of my son at soccer last night and I managed to catch clear action shots from across the field

Very nice! It's fun to have a new toy to play with!

 

[ronott1]

I've only had chickens for 4 1/2 years but have had 5 cases of Mareks in that time period. Only 1 was the tumor kind and it was a 2 yr old hatchery Speckled Sussex who had been vaccinated at the hatchery. The other 4 cases were all French Black Copper Marans and they came down with the paralysis form at 6-10 weeks. I have not had a single case of it in the past 1 1/2 yr but I've also stopped trying to raise FBCM. I have hatched out around 200 Pita Pinta, Pita Pinta mix, and Langshan chicks this year with no Mareks. Perhaps my 2 chosen breeds have some natural resistance to it? My flock here in town yard ranges my 1/3 acre yard and there are lots of trees and bushes so lots of wild birds. I swear that we are a migration stop over point for several kinds of birds so there is no way to prevent my birds from having contact with wild bird droppings, etc.

This is the correct answer.

You can get the FBCMs resistant by not breeding those that show symptoms.

Pita Pintas do not seem to suffer from cocci either.

Bye the way, your chickens have all had mareks.

I should add that chickens do not show symptoms of west nile. Chickens are used to see if west nile in in an area but chickens are resistant to it--they catch it but do not get sick from it.

 

[PetRock]

This is the correct answer.

You can get the FBCMs resistant by not breeding those that show symptoms.

Pita Pintas do not seem to suffer from cocci either.

Bye the way, your chickens have all had mareks.

I should add that chickens do not show symptoms of west nile. Chickens are used to see if west nile in in an area but chickens are resistant to it--they catch it but do not get sick from it.

I did lose one young PP to cocci this year and several others had it but recovered. It was a bad spring/early summer for cocci here and the kind they had did not respond well to amprolium.