I read through most of the afternoon looking for post something close to what I have going on with my coturnix.
I'm pretty sure I have something like MG in my newly hatched chicks. I cannot post a picture as I culled them all this evening to prevent any spread of disease. Symptoms of what they had crusty eyes to the point they could no longer see out and some had diarrhea. The chicks were in my bird room and I had constant visual throughout the day. It started with only one chick 2 days post hatch and I thinking the chick had gotten bird food in its eye, rinsed out the eye and put it back with the others. Within a period of 24 hours 5 birds were sick with crusty eyes. I culled out the 5 only to have another getting sick. It was then I decided to cull out the rest to keep this infection or whatever it is at bay.
I had grow outs in the same room with these baby chicks and was sad to have to cull them right along with the babies.
I threw away the brooder and two pens I had in that room as I couldn't really think of any good way to clean the wire from the top of the pens.
So here is the question: the Breeders from these chicks have had absolutely no symptoms. Without the crusty eyes from these chicks and the two previous hatches that I had higher than normal deaths (but no crusty eyes) you would never know that I had a illness in my house. I originally thought maybe it was a genetic abnormality. Because again the adults have had no signs of illness. It's been over 2 months since all of this started I would think that I would be seeing some sort of illness from my breeders. Culling out the chicks was hard but I've had some of my breeders for quite a while and would be quite sad to see them go.
What is the chance that chicks have gotten sick from the incubator? Although I clean my incubator and Hatcher after each and every hatch, I do not use bleach because I'm allergic to it. Could the chicks have been infected by means other than through the egg? Am I really just trying to avoid the inevitable!
I'm pretty sure I have something like MG in my newly hatched chicks. I cannot post a picture as I culled them all this evening to prevent any spread of disease. Symptoms of what they had crusty eyes to the point they could no longer see out and some had diarrhea. The chicks were in my bird room and I had constant visual throughout the day. It started with only one chick 2 days post hatch and I thinking the chick had gotten bird food in its eye, rinsed out the eye and put it back with the others. Within a period of 24 hours 5 birds were sick with crusty eyes. I culled out the 5 only to have another getting sick. It was then I decided to cull out the rest to keep this infection or whatever it is at bay.
I had grow outs in the same room with these baby chicks and was sad to have to cull them right along with the babies.
I threw away the brooder and two pens I had in that room as I couldn't really think of any good way to clean the wire from the top of the pens.
So here is the question: the Breeders from these chicks have had absolutely no symptoms. Without the crusty eyes from these chicks and the two previous hatches that I had higher than normal deaths (but no crusty eyes) you would never know that I had a illness in my house. I originally thought maybe it was a genetic abnormality. Because again the adults have had no signs of illness. It's been over 2 months since all of this started I would think that I would be seeing some sort of illness from my breeders. Culling out the chicks was hard but I've had some of my breeders for quite a while and would be quite sad to see them go.
What is the chance that chicks have gotten sick from the incubator? Although I clean my incubator and Hatcher after each and every hatch, I do not use bleach because I'm allergic to it. Could the chicks have been infected by means other than through the egg? Am I really just trying to avoid the inevitable!
