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Yep. Speckledhen won me over to Oxine with this thread.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=560301

I've put off ordering it until the Cyber Monday sale at eggcartons.com motivated me to go ahead and buy some. It's 20% off your entire purchase and free shipping until Wednesday. I also got some nestbox pads because I really, really hate straw. Might be because I have a huge net of the stuff hanging directly over my feed bins and I always manage to leave the coop with twigs sticking out of my hair.
 
good question. Since it is a disinfectant and not an antibiotic it must actually contact a pathogen to work. What actually happens with the water is the oxine is killing bacteria that enter the water. The chicken drinking it is not affected for a couple reasons. The dilution rate is too high in the drinking water to alter gut bacteria, and the oxine water has to actually touch the contagion in question. You cant really alter the natural immune response because all you are doing is killing the bacterium/virus/mold/etc that is already there. It does have "some" residual effect, but this is very minimal and only on surfaces that would soak in the material, like a horizontal roosting bar. Lets take some of the upper respiratory causes as an example. "Aspergillosis" is one we worry about. This one is fungal and the chickens immune response to fungal infections is near zero effective and will not "learn" or build immunity from previous infections. What fogging the coop does is simply kill the mold before it has a chance to multiply enough to launch spores in a large concentration.....or if the chicken already has been affected, then the oxine will kill what it can reach on or in the bird.
Coryza is another one we worry about and that one is bacterial. Lets say that a coop might have been exposed to coryza at 6 months of age if it were not for fogging and killing the bacteria before birds got sick. I see what you are saying; that since they have never been exposed that they have no antibodies built up from a previous exposure. But they more than likely have been exposed before, the oxine just killed it before it multiplied in numbers enough to have the bird show symptoms. Your body (and the chickens) only need a very brief (seconds) exposure to start building antibodies. So lets say that it is 3 years later that they are heavily exposed due to a new bird that is infected and maybe you stopped fogging. Your birds are exposed for enough time for them to show signs. Their immune response will be the same as it would have been when they were 6 months old at minimum, except more than likely they will have antibodies from a previous exposure, and they are healthier, older, and better able to fight off the current one as well even without a previous exposure. Oxine is like wiping your counters with bleach....you are limiting your risk of exposure to a contagion, but if you do get exposed your immune response was not limited due to the bleach. (I think, LOL) Stop making me think...I have a head ache
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Hello everyone I just found this forum. Nice to know I'm not the only one getting flooded and cold. We didn't get any snow just sleet. The mountains in the area got maybe an 1" I know my chickens will be happy when it dries up. I have also been looking for a local Maran breeder. I have 1 black copper hen and a splash roo. I would like black copper, blue copper or cuckcoo maran hens feathered leggs. To fill in the ranks from the lack of marans. I have a mixed flock of 5RIR,4Cali whites,4Easter Eggers,5Ameraucanas,1giant motteled cochin,1buff orphangton,1black copper maran and 1 big splash maran rooster named LaMar
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