Major Mortality rate what could be wrong with my flock? HELP PLEASE

[dottysfarm]

Melissa, have you considered trying to feed them garlic? Garlic is a natural antibiotic and does not build up super germs. It is also antifungal and antibacterial. I would feed them some form of garlic and apple cider vinegar for a while. Hope the vet calls you soon. I pray for you when I think of it. I am continuing to pray that your sister can come to saving faith and knowledge of the truth as you have. God Bless you!

 

[rancher hicks]

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Thank You, super bugs are created when antibiotics are given as a normal and daily regemine even though there is no sign of illness. This is not the case here. I hardly see what giving them anitbiotics for a short period of time will hurt. If she administers antibiotics and sees that things improve then she can continue for the recommended duration of time.

Germs don't automatically develope a resistance to the antibiotics it take a long period of time. Much longer than she would be administering them for.

 

[bossynbella]

Great thank you , I have to work till 6:30 tonight. I leave in 20 min to go to work. I will pen up the chickens tonight and start with the dura mycin tomorrow. As I don't have to go in untill 4:30 tomorrow. Then I work till 11 then the next day I have to go in at 6am work till 2pm then not go in till 2 the next afternoon and work till 10. Its like come on keep it early or late this one way then the other is killing me!
I need the hours though so I guess I shouldn't complain. Thinking of switching my availablilty from anytime to anytime after 9am. i would rather work late nights then get off at 11 one night and have to be there at 6 the next day!
thanks again
Melissa

 

[rancher hicks]

Just to let you know you are in our thoughts each and every day.

God Bless you with peace

Rancher

 

[arch_cpj]

Discard the eggs from the treated birds and folloe through with the full course... If you do not see improvement in 7 - 10 days you likely wont but Id keep up the duramycin for the full 14 day course oxytetracycline is a broad spectrum antibiotic and treats many bacterial infections...

 

[bossynbella]

Thank you, at dark I plan to catch all the chickens that sleep in the garage, which I think is almost all of them, and pen them in what use to be the duck pen. It has a 5' by 3' Small House in it, I will give them the duramycin in there water for 14 days. If I don't loose any more chickens in that time, I will assume that cured them, hopefully and will turn them loose and repeat with the ducks. I only have one available pen that has a shelter for them, as I have a guinea mom and seven 6 day old keets in the other pen because she kept taking them across the road at night. I don't plan to give the antibiotic to the guineas as I have never lost one to this disease. I called and left a message for the USDA vet lady, she hasn't called me back yet.
If they continue dieing, we have one that looks kinda sick maybe... kind of lethargic and watery eye, but isn't progressing as quickly in the past, but we have not lost any in 9 days now. Which is a record for us this summer. Anyway if they continue dieing while on the duramycin after 14 days I will try the sulmet? Also I will put the vitamins and electrolytes in the water too. Can I use a hog pan? or do I need to use a chick waterer gallon thingy?
I have to this time only ever lost 3 ducks to this and 2 where Muscovys and 1 a Mule drake. We havn't lost any of the Anacona, Rouen, Call or mallard mix ducks we have. The pen isn't big enough for the chickens and ducks, and the ducks all seem healthy at this time, that is why I decided to pen the chickens first and then after they have been treated for 2 weeks do the ducks. Though in another week I will probably try letting the Guinea and keets out again, hopefully she will figure out to stay near the garage, our other guinea did. Then I can put the ducks in there and treat them.Also how will that work with ducks? If I put it in a hog pan (what we usually use) they will just swim in it and will probably dump more then they drink. But I don't think they could drink out of a chick waterer? They wouldn't be happy without there swimming anyway.

Sorry this is rambling it has been a long day and I am tired.
I will check this later before I go to bed probably, just in case there is something else I should know.
Thanks again for everything,
Melissa

 

[4ladies]

ok, I just spent an hour reading from start to finish. What the heck was the very final result? Did the anti-biotic/quarantine work? Did you have to cull them all? Was a cause ever pinpointed? Was whatever was causing the chickens to die also causing the other animals to die? I am especially concerned about the dog, as I have a dog and I have a sick chicken. Please.

 

[tigerrrrrrrlilly]

I had wondered the same. There are tons of other posts on BYC from the OP but nothing about this. Lots of other troubles, but no other mention about what was going on with her chickens...

I really wanted to know! I especially wanted to know what she heard back from the vet and if they continued to have a problem. It was so puzzling and I was dying to know what it could possibly have been.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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X2!!!

 

[bucket04]

I came to this thread because I am losing guinea keets at an alarming rate. Purchased 30, got 32, 2 DOA and the rest just keep dying. I am down to 12, after one week. They are on antibiotics now, and I was hoping there would be an answer to the OP's puzzle, since it seems so totally familiar to mine. They look fine, the next day they are dead. Sometimes they are walking shaky, and breathing a little difficult and then they are gone. Sometimes there is no warning at all.

bossynbella, I am so sorry to hear about your sister's passing.