CRD and chicks, or was it the baytril?

[rcentner]

after checking it out again, I do believe I have the MG.....I wonder now if I also have corzya. ILT doesn't seem to fit the picture, but with every page on mycoplasma it mentions concurrent infections with corzya or ILT. On all the pages about ILT or coryza it mentions concurrent infections with mycoplasma. Oh and newcastle disease too, but If I had to bet, I would place my bets on MG and coryza mixed infection. Some of the coryza photos look just like some of my birds did.

egg production and food consumption is going back where it was a month or so ago, hoping that is a good sign.

reviewed my MG info and it does appear that chicks exposed to it tend to live about 15 days....hmmm, mine were 2-3 weeks old. I have 1 more chick that is almost 2 weeks old so I guess we will see if I find that one dead next week. Tomorrow will be group burial day for the ones that have passed. I really dont want to have to dig any more graves for a while after this one.

 

[chickengrl]

Do you notice a really bad, dead sort-of smell around their face? That's supposed to help pinpoint coryza. I think the reason they talk about the concurent infections is that MG is so incredibly common. SOme estimates say as much as 80% of backyard flocks have it. The birds I had necropsied did not have it, oddly enough. They were bought from an MG free breeder, so probably just hadn't been exposed. Hope you can get a handle on it, and NO more deaths!

 

[rcentner]

ahh yes, I remember reading about the smell...thank you for ruling that out cause there is no smell. 1 more sick bird, but she is breathing ok, started the baytril. Atleast the baytril is working when I can catch it.
I have a headache from reading so much about poultry diseases last night. and of course, dreampt about chickens then too

 

[nnbreeder]

Another thing that would cause the blackened stools are internal parasites. It will also cause a layer to shut off while her system is down.

A bird is not like a dog and if you see worms in their droppings it is usually too late to save them. The normal life cycle is to shed eggs, not adult worms. Now the worms could be the stresser and that too could help explain the staggered deaths.

If you use DE as a wormer I would say to swap to Wazine-17 for an initial wormer and here is why. You change or replenish your DE in the coop after a rain because it loses it's effectiveness when wet. So have you ever seen a dry chicken intestinal tract?

The reason for the Wazine at first is that all it kills is the adult round worms, not the eggs or the youngsters hanging on. In a bad infestation if too many worms turn loose all at once it can block the intestinal tract and kill the bird.

 

[rcentner]

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well, fortunatly..that is the one thing I have been good about. I have a deworming schedule that I did not slack on

They get dewormed every 3 months with the wazine. It only took me once seeing worms when I first got chickens to realize that was important and easy to do.
thanks for the advice (and good advice at that

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