Carter Martin
Songster
If this is what the disease is I don't think it can be treated very well with antibiotics because the intruding cells have no cell wall which is what antibiotics attack to kill the cell.Put out the ones with the swollen eyes?
Will my others catch on?
This is sad
I gave them antibiotics hoping it would help but nope
From what I have heard, with this disease, the symptoms may go away and never come back. But the birds are still carriers. And if stressed the symptoms could come back again.So you're saying after healing they still developed the same symptoms again?
I think the disease is very easily transmitted from chicken to chicken even if it is through you. You can carry it in your mouth and nose and on your cloths.
It is basically impossible to get rid of as far as I know unless you get rid of all your chickens and then clean and sanitize all your stuff and then let everything sit for awhile before getting any new chickens. And even then I don't know that it is a guarenttee that it is gone. Also, you can't keep eggs from your old flock and hatch them if you want to get rid of the disease. Because I think it is passed from mother to offspring through the eggs. I personally decided not to worry to much about having the disease. At this point I don't sell any poultry unless maybe to friends who know my condition and are all right with it. I do sell eggs to shops still. The eggs are eatable even if the chickens have this disease. And the chickens seem to lay fairly well even if they have it.
Have you gotten any eggs that are miss shappen? Like that are sort of flat on one side maybe?