~MALAYSIAN SERAMA THREAD~ (PICS!!!)

[SunnyCalifornia]

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Remove them immediately from the rest of the flock, and I'd disinfect the surrounding ground beneath their cage, like tonight. Bring them in your room, with a heat lamp, where you can monitor them constantly. Tell Mom its an emergency. I have a pack of chick-saver I can bring you in the morning, to put in their water, but actual medicine sounds necessary at this point.

NurseShelly gave you some good suggestions, and hopefully Cara can help.

I'd treat all your flock with some antibiotics ASAP, and hopefully contain the disease before it becomes an outbreak. Change your clothes and wash your hands after handling them.

So sorry you are having to go through this, its heartbreaking...

I'll drop off the chick saver between 8-9am, I'll just put it in an envelope on your front porch. I don't want to disrupt your parents that early.

 

[nurseshelly]

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The injectable antibiotic will get rid of it the fastest. You should give it at least a few more days after all symptoms are gone. For a Serama the dose of Tylan would be 0.25 mL. You can buy the medication, syringes and needles (get shortest puppy needle they sell for vaccines). I would get the smallest bottle of medication you can, and a least 5 syringes and 5 needles for each bird. I think the smallest bottle of medication is 50 mL so will last a long time, but must be refrigerated or it will go bad. You put the needle on, put 0.25 mL of AIR in the syringe and push it into the bottle. Then turn back so needle is up and bottle is on top and draw down to 0.25 mL. If you forget the air once, no big deal. If you never put air in, it will create a vacuum and it will be harder and harder to get the medication out. You give the shot to one side of the breast bone, below the crop. Just put about 1/4 inch of the needle in and push all of the medication in. If you put the chicken on it's back on your lap, they stay pretty still. When it's done, just take it out and put the needle into the cover and close up in the syringe case (plastic). It's kind of hard to do the first time, but it is really a ton easier than trying to shove a medication down by mouth.

You could put some antibiotic in the other chickens water in case they have caught it. It might be better to wait and see if they catch it first, so you aren't giving them medication they don't need. If it's mycoplasma, it could have been transmitted by wild birds. I think I read that the chickens that have it will carry it for life, but should stay well unless they get stressed by something ... like moving to a new home.

Edited because I realized when giving instructions, one part was a little vauge about putting the needle in 1/4 inch then push "it" all in ... it should have been the medication.

 

[nurseshelly]

Oh, SunnyCalifornia has great advice about separating them if you haven't and disinfecting ... I was so busy thinking about the treatment, I forgot that part!!! Make sure you handle the well chickens first, and the sick ones last, and still wash before and after each sick / or well. Changing clothes between is good too! So glad someone else posted since I forgot it! Oh, you can also make a 10% bleach solution and put it in a shallow pan, just enough to get the bottom of your shoes wet. You can use it to reduce chance of spreading germs on your shoes.

 

[andrea98]

last week i bought 2 "girls" that are now 4-5 weeks old .. could i have gotten a boy ??? at the time there was no comb and now "her" comb looks like there is a little color comming in & is a little bigger than the others!!! i cant have another roo .. what do you think??? its the one between my thumb & index finger....

 

[bobbyc1970]

Ahhh

hard to tell. till they get a little older.

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[jerschex]

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Before you received these birds you told me you were going to de worm them and treat them for mites upon arrival. I told you they were 6 weeks old chicks ,had always been on wire and did not have worms nor mites. Did you worm and treat for mites, anyway? If so, this could be your problem. Also, the birds were still on grow crumbles, what are you feeding them.? Did you put nasty tasting stuff in their water and they are not drinking. What kind of shavings are you using? Cedar is toxic to serama. Some times the birds are fine and we cause our own problems

 

[Memphisjourney2seramas]

it does look like a rooster..sorry!

 

[YB192004]

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The injectable antibiotic will get rid of it the fastest. You should give it at least a few more days after all symptoms are gone. For a Serama the dose of Tylan would be 0.25 mL. You can buy the medication, syringes and needles (get shortest puppy needle they sell for vaccines). I would get the smallest bottle of medication you can, and a least 5 syringes and 5 needles for each bird. I think the smallest bottle of medication is 50 mL so will last a long time, but must be refrigerated or it will go bad. You put the needle on, put 0.25 mL of AIR in the syringe and push it into the bottle. Then turn back so needle is up and bottle is on top and draw down to 0.25 mL. If you forget the air once, no big deal. If you never put air in, it will create a vacuum and it will be harder and harder to get the medication out. You give the shot to one side of the breast bone, below the crop. Just put about 1/4 inch of the needle in and push it all in. If you put the chicken on it's back on your lap, they stay pretty still. When it's done, just take it out and put the needle into the cover and close up in the syringe case (plastic). It's kind of hard to do the first time, but it is really a ton easier than trying to shove a medication down by mouth.

You could put some antibiotic in the other chickens water in case they have caught it. It might be better to wait and see if they catch it first, so you aren't giving them medication they don't need. If it's mycoplasma, it could have been transmitted by wild birds. I think I read that the chickens that have it will carry it for life, but should stay well unless they get stressed by something ... like moving to a new home.

X2...

Sorry to hear about your flock Jake, I hope its not as bad as what you said. The tylan should cure it....wish you all the best!!!

 

[andrea98]

i am sooo frightened .. i am gonna call the breeder tomorrow & see if i can run the little bugger out & have her take a look at it .. i will be so disappointed it it is a boy .. i payed for a girl ( in comparrison to the others that were all in there it did look like a girl ) & the area i have for them to go in to when they get bigger already house a hen & roo .. ohh crap crap crap.. ( might i add my DH will not be happy ) i had a very ugly run in with TSC when i started 9 chicks i bought & 8 of them were roos!!! i had a heck of a time rehoming the last two !!! the breeder was very nice when i went out there & i sure hope she helps me out with this!!

 

[HatchingFever]

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Before you received these birds you told me you were going to de worm them and treat them for mites upon arrival. I told you they were 6 weeks old chicks ,had always been on wire and did not have worms nor mites. Did you worm and treat for mites, anyway? If so, this could be your problem. Also, the birds were still on grow crumbles, what are you feeding them.? Did you put nasty tasting stuff in their water and they are not drinking. What kind of shavings are you using? Cedar is toxic to serama. Some times the birds are fine and we cause our own problems

Yes i did de worm with Diatious earth in food Yes i got rid of the mites yes i bathed them when i got them Shaveings they are on wire here. Nasty water i gave them viatmins manually the first 3 day they arrived and gatorade in the water. Now the rest that are left(2 from the 4 you sent me) are inside under a heat lamp and getting antibiotics mixed with vitamin B they are getting in manully from me opening there mouth and putting it down there throat. There are on lay pellets mixed with scratch and grounded up safflower seeds with some very fine grided corn.