Fowl pox =(

[showjumper_girl2002]

Thx for the info! As of now it appears they only have the dry version and it isn't severe. I'm a worry wart though and love my girls lol they get fresh water daily and are fed flock raiser with the occasional meal worm treat along with fresh veggies and apples. I give them scratch acassionally too. They have full access to chicken grit and ouster shell as well. I'm going to start adding apple coder vineger to their water to help with worms and such too. I was also considering adding vitamin supplements to their diet.

 

[EggsNThings]

Hi Eggcessive - Here are a couple of pix...I just got them off my daughter's phone; unfortunately they are pretty blurry. We have about 6 birds that had the lesions and weepy or goey eyes. Some were stuck shut. Some had audible respiratory sounds as well. One, a seventh bird had no visible lesions but exhibited audible respiratory distress and began mouth breathing. We brought all those birds into our shop area...which doubles as our livestock infirmary...and began treating them. The affected eyes received colloidal silver drops and neosporin twice a day after irrigation. Additionally the lesions received the neosporin treatment. My local feedstore had to order the Tylan, but about 24 hours into the eye treatment each bird began to received a dose of Tylan at each treatment session (morning and nite). We are about a half a week into sick bird care and 2 days into the antibiotics. All of the birds with weepy eyes are much improved (the pix show the birds early in treatment). Those that were really bad (stuck shut) are open and functional now. We have an araucana (shown in the photos) that has the lesions bad on both sides. Her eyes were weepy and bubbly; that has improved immensely but the lesions may still be spreading. Only the bird in respiratory distress appears to be unimproved. He is a larger bird and I have increased the Tylan dosage. We'll give him another day or two to show improvement. After finding the initial birds we performed a check on all of our poultry. We currently have about half a dozen other birds with lesions on their heads (combs, eyes or mouth area) but otherwise presenting no adverse health issues. They are quarantined in a separate coup and under observation and we continue to watch the rest of our "healthy" birds. I have one turkey in my flock that may be affected as well. At first I thought he had gotten into a fight with another male because he had sores on his snood, but now I wonder. He appears to have no other health issues and is still in with his turkey peops. So besides the vector question, I wonder if it would make sense to vaccinate the remaining (apparently unaffected) flock at this point or should I assume that they have all been exposed and vaccination won't help at this point? Is it safe to eat an animal with pox? If not, how about after the pox has cleared?