Immunity boosters?

[Michael Apple]

If your birds survive, they will be carriers for life. You must maintain a closed flock. No new birds in, no birds out and no hatching eggs to be given away or sold.
You want to experiment with natural products to build immunity in your birds during times of stress. There have been millions and millions of dollars spent trying to treat and cure mycoplasma diseases using all kinds of products, both natural and man made without success. The only cure is to cull suffering sick birds, disinfect everything and start over a couple weeks later. Check with your vet, he'll tell you the same thing if he hasnt already done so.

X2. I regret to say dawg is right, vicChickenLover. You can possibly overcome symptoms with the appropriate antibiotics, but stress in the future could bring symptoms back and you will have to treat them again. If you wish to keep them and try to give them life, you will have to keep the flock closed to any other birds.

 

[vicChickenLover]

Yeah, I definitely wont bring in any new birds to this flock. It has been very stressful, each week there is a new deathly-sick chicken.
I don't want to cull my flock for selfish reasons. Most of the birds I have left haven't been too sick except for the most recent one, who has swollen ear lobes.

Is there a vaccination for MG? Because I have an ex-battery hen who doesn't show any symptoms. It would make sense if she was immunised against it as a chick, if there is a vaccine for it. Otherwise I guess she has just been lucky so far.

 

[Michael Apple]

Here is some information regarding MG and vaccinations: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps034