Eye injury? or infection?

[dawg53]

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DE does not kill worms, nor is it a worm preventative. DE isnt effective when it is wet, until it dries out. Chickens innards are wet, therefore DE is ineffective.

 

[renovationmom]

All of the sources I have read on DE say it is effective as a wormer. But I am sure there are some that say it does not/can not work. I have not seen worms in my chickens fecel matter. I did just read it does get rid of mites. I started using it to control flies, and it has been working well.

I culled the infected birds today, now I guess I need to wait and see if anymore of the flock become infected. Is there anything I should do to boost my flocks immunity? Thank you for your advice, it has been helpful and is appreciated.

 

[renovationmom]

One more question please. It appears that this is some type of Respiratory Infection, and from what I have read, there a few different ones, but with any of them, culling the infected birds is advised. I read that some birds will be a carrier, but not ever actually get ill. My question is, the hens I culled, I am sure I have some of their eggs in the incubator right now(I just do not know which ones are theirs), will this be passed on to the baby chicks that hatch? I am not going to discard this batch, as I have 22 eggs, and since many birds can be a carrier of any one of the respiratory infections affecting chickens, I am going to have to take my chances and keep culling any infected birds. So far, it has only affected one baby chic that was from my flock(I am thinking I transfered it to that one chic, while I was holding it-probably from my shirt, the rest of the infected were from the 5 hens I just purchased(2 remain) So far, everyone else appears very healthy. I wonder how much time needs to pass, before you can say you are in the clear?