Cream Legbar with watery eyes

[jonalisa]

Have a drink and put your feet up, you're a good chicken mama and you deserve it.

 

[Rammy]

Ok. So the Dr called and told me the fecal showed a little cocci in her poop but wasnt concerned about it as she said that the amount in there was normal? But she did find a type of worm that she said was very hard to get rid of and I dont remember the name, sorry. It is treated for 5 days with fendembezole. Im suppose to do 5lbs per bird? In their feed? Ummm thats going to amount to about a 100lbs in their feed total if I give 5 pounds each.
I dont know how long they have had this worm or what will happen if I dont get rid of it but if its going to cost me an arm and a leg to get rid of it, screw it.

 

[Eggcessive]

Call back and ask what the name of the type of worm. Capillary (thread worms) can be serious. Give safeGuard (fenbedazole) liquid goat wormer 1/4 ml per pound—1.25 ml for a 5 pound chicken orally, and repeat for 5 consequtive days.

 

[Rammy]

Call back and ask what the name of the type of worm. Capillary (thread worms) can be serious. Give safeGuard (fenbedazole) liquid goat wormer 1/4 ml per pound—1.25 ml for a 5 pound chicken orally, and repeat for 5 consequtive days.
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Thats what she told me to get was the fenbenzanole. She was telling me 5lbs per chicken. Im thinking, say what? Getting some tomorrow. Have 60 chickens to treat.

 

[jonalisa]

You've got a lot on your plate...Good luck!
@Eggcessive I don't know what we would do without you

 

[Rammy]

Well, bad news. Its Mycoplasma. Had to cull her. More bad news...now my CL rooster is showing bubbly eyes and some swelling on his right side. So since there is no cure for this and any infected bird is a carrier for life, my options are to cull over 50 hens and roosters and start over after disinfecting everything after possibly months. Or just cull as I find birds showing symptoms.
Im very upset about this. I keep my coop clean and disinfect waterers and feed troughs regularly. I dont know how they got this.
All my flock was perfectly healthy until I started allowing people to come here to buy hens I wanted to sell. Im not NPIP certified but was planning on trying later. Now Im afraid I cant. From what Ive read, you can bring this with you from other places and spread it to other places on your clothes or shoes. I wont be able to sell anymore chickens or hatching eggs now. If this spreads thru my flock Im going to lose some pretty expensive birds.

 

[Eggcessive]

Sorry that you you had to put your hen down. MG is very common in backyard flocks. You could close your flock to birds going in or out, and still have a good flock of chickens that lay eggs for you, and that you can enjoy.

 

[Rammy]

Im going to have to close my flock. I had hopes of selling chickens and hatching eggs but I guess thats not going to be an option anymore.

 

[Eggcessive]

It is unfortunate, but many people go through this sort of thing when adding new birds to the flock, trying to improve their breeds and trying to get more rare breeds. I added a few birds to my flock years ago to get some blue egg layers, and the more I learned here about how easy it is to bring in diseases, it made me vow to just get healthy chicks from a hatchery from then on. Even then wild birds can bring in diseases. Sorry that this affected your plans.
Fortunately most respiratory diseases only remain alive in the environment for several days (MG and coryza,) and the others may last a little longer.

 

[Rammy]

Found the CL rooster dead this morning. He didnt have the MG nearly as bad as the CL hen did. I had him isolated in the hoop house and seemed to be doing ok. I had just given him dome Tylan powder in his water day before. Hope this doesnt spread thru the flock. So far no one else is showing symptoms.