Manna Pro water protector ingredients?

[LikeTurkeys]

Hi y'all!
I was looking for a water treatment so that Mycoplasma Synoviae wouldn't spread so quickly throughout my flock... Not sure it would do much good anyway but worth a try. (https://waddl.vetmed.wsu.edu/animal-disease-faq/mycoplasma-synoviae was the link that said it may help). Anyway, I was looking at Manna Pro water protector at Tractor Supply and I saw that one of the ingredients was yeast. How does this help keep the water clean and is this the same stuff that causes sour crop? Or different? Suspecting different but wanted some confirmation. It also contains citric acid which I figured was what I wanted. If you have better water treatments please recommend!

Also, I'm probably going to switch to a nipple watering system soon. After I get a regular bucket nipple watering system, I'm hoping someday I can switch to this: https://davenaves.com/blog/projects/automatic-chicken-watering-system/

Thanks!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Hi y'all!
I was looking for a water treatment so that Mycoplasma Synoviae wouldn't spread so quickly throughout my flock... Not sure it would do much good anyway but worth a try. (https://waddl.vetmed.wsu.edu/animal-disease-faq/mycoplasma-synoviae was the link that said it may help). Anyway, I was looking at Manna Pro water protector at Tractor Supply and I saw that one of the ingredients was yeast. How does this help keep the water clean and is this the same stuff that causes sour crop? Or different? Suspecting different but wanted some confirmation. It also contains citric acid which I figured was what I wanted. If you have better water treatments please recommend!

Also, I'm probably going to switch to a nipple watering system soon. After I get a regular bucket nipple watering system, I'm hoping someday I can switch to this: https://davenaves.com/blog/projects/automatic-chicken-watering-system/

Thanks!

Do you have confirmation that your flock has MS? Any testing/necropsy?

It is important to keep water stations clean and sanitized regardless if there is disease in a flock or not. That is one step to helping keep a flock healthy.
MS is transmitted both vertically and horizontally, so that means from bird to bird and through hatching eggs. Mycoplasmas is found in dust, dander, mucous, etc. Essentially if birds have been exposed to one that is sick, they all are carriers.

I am not familiar with the product you are looking at. I have no idea if that would cause Sour Crop or how it works - hopefully someone can answer that. https://www.mannapro.com/products/poultry/chick-care/water-protector

It may be better to rinse water stations every day and give them a good cleaning a couple of times a week with something like Oxine.

 

[LikeTurkeys]

Do you have confirmation that your flock has MS? Any testing/necropsy?

It is important to keep water stations clean and sanitized regardless if there is disease in a flock or not. That is one step to helping keep a flock healthy.
MS is transmitted both vertically and horizontally, so that means from bird to bird and through hatching eggs. Mycoplasmas is found in dust, dander, mucous, etc. Essentially if birds have been exposed to one that is sick, they all are carriers.

I am not familiar with the product you are looking at. I have no idea if that would cause Sour Crop or how it works - hopefully someone can answer that. https://www.mannapro.com/products/poultry/chick-care/water-protector

It may be better to rinse water stations every day and give them a good cleaning a couple of times a week with something like Oxine.

No testing or necopsy, but after asking on this forum based on the symptoms they said that it was MS. So self diagnosed basically.

Yes, I know it's important to keep water clean but I've never done any water treatment, just scrubbing and changing it out. I know it's probably pointless to do any of this anyway because of how it is transmitted, but I was just wondering.

I'll look into the Oxine, thanks!