Fowl pox is a virus, there arnt any treatments.
Canker is a protozoa and can be treated.
Emergency...suspected thrush/ Canker...copper sulphate??
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Canker is a protozoa and can be treated.
Copper sulfate isnt meant to be used as a treatment for canker, only as a monthly preventative. The dosage has to be exact when mixing it with water. Too much will cause chemical burns in the mouth and esophagus etc...Well, I think I really screwed up as she is much worse. And it's a Holiday weekend so I can't even find a vet open where I'm not gonna spend 500.00 to walk in the door. I saw someone else on here in a previous thread was confused about what kind of copper sulphate to use too. She only had a drink of it last night but I'm sure it messed her up. I feel terrible and I'm sure she feels worse. My bad for not taking her to a vet in the first place.
Copper sulfate will not treat fowl pox.
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I was told to use acidified CS as a treatment; Actually I have read in other sites that it can be used as a treatment. It's just that the mill gave me regular CS, instead of the acidified. I gave her 1/4 tsp in a gallon of water and she only had a little.
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I don't know what she has but she is not responding to the canker med. What she responded most to, of anything that I've tried, is the organic ACV, and maybe the iodine on the lesions.
This is a blurb from:
http://m.www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/acidified_copper_sulfate.html
"Blackhead disease can be a problem in turkeys, chukar, grouse, quail, partridge, pheasants, and peafowl but rarely in chickens. Chickens are often the carriers, thus the benefits of segregating birds by species as well as age. Caused by a protozoan, the symptoms include: increase thirst, decrease appetite, drowsiness, weakness, yellowish-brown, watery, or foamy droppings and the birds may become very thin.Pale yellow droppins in turkeys is almost always a sign of blackhead. Birds contact the disease by eating earthworms which contain the cecal worm or by ingesting droppings from infected birds. Dosage 1/4 tsp per gallon of water. Poultry should be over 3 weeks of age. This medication must be administered in glass or plastic waterer.
(OK to eat eggs during treatment with these antibiotics.)"
I know it's for blackhead, but Canker is also a protozoa, so maybe it's the same? FWIW, It's also what my vet recommended.
-Kathy
http://m.www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/acidified_copper_sulfate.html
"Blackhead disease can be a problem in turkeys, chukar, grouse, quail, partridge, pheasants, and peafowl but rarely in chickens. Chickens are often the carriers, thus the benefits of segregating birds by species as well as age. Caused by a protozoan, the symptoms include: increase thirst, decrease appetite, drowsiness, weakness, yellowish-brown, watery, or foamy droppings and the birds may become very thin.Pale yellow droppins in turkeys is almost always a sign of blackhead. Birds contact the disease by eating earthworms which contain the cecal worm or by ingesting droppings from infected birds. Dosage 1/4 tsp per gallon of water. Poultry should be over 3 weeks of age. This medication must be administered in glass or plastic waterer.
(OK to eat eggs during treatment with these antibiotics.)"
I know it's for blackhead, but Canker is also a protozoa, so maybe it's the same? FWIW, It's also what my vet recommended.
-Kathy
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Her droppings have always been normal. I mean the symptoms match, otherwise. I read on Poultrypedia I think it was that a good natural treatment is applesauce, the fresher the better, and ACV also. It was strange because before I read that, I had been giving her some applesauce, and she did look like she was improving, but hard to say if that was why. I'm going to get her some more today though. Or maybe make some. I also read that the CS will make weak birds sicker...they lose appetite and become lethargic. And that is the way she was yesterday morning, I thought we were going to lose her. But by last night, she'd perked up again, and was starving for her dinner. She also sits in the classic pose I read that indicates Canker...like a hawk. on her haunches. I also read that birds that are too far gone probably won't recover, so I don't know if it's worthwhile to order her the oral CS....
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She died yesterday morning.
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Thank you. I thought about that, we live right up the road from the State ag department really...but it's expensive and she died on the Holiday weekend, so I don't think I would have
been able to get her down there in time, you're supposed to get them in there within 24 hours of death. If we have another bird get sick with it, I certainly will have a necropsy done in the event that it dies, but so far, the flock seems ok.
been able to get her down there in time, you're supposed to get them in there within 24 hours of death. If we have another bird get sick with it, I certainly will have a necropsy done in the event that it dies, but so far, the flock seems ok.
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also last time I had a necro, they wouldn't do it without a vet's referral, so I couldn't get hold of the vet either. That's been several years ago that we last had one done,
but I assume their policies haven't changed.
but I assume their policies haven't changed.
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