Microplasma (Sneezing Chickens)

[chicknmania]

Oh, also, I wouldn't worry about eating the eggs. We have eaten eggs before when our flock was sick a few years ago, I did some research on it then and general consensus was it's ok to eat em. If you order from firststatevetsupply you might want to ask Peter his opinion, and then treat as he tells you to. He has saved our birds, more than once.

 

[speckledhen]

The thing is that you will be treating something that you dont even know is a bacteria and therefore, susceptible to antibiotics. Treating blindly may do more harm than good. And with several diseases, they may seem to recover but remain carriers, able to infect all other birds for the rest of their lives. Just be aware of that fact.




***Psst, it's mycoplasma, not microplasma. Mycoplasmosis is also called Chronic Respiratory Disease, which can be passed down through the egg to new chicks. Not saying that's what it is. You won't know that unless you have the state test a bird.

 

[crazyhen]

check with your county agriculture dept. They can provide testers. I live in NC and they send them to me. It is better to treat what you know they have. They can also provide inf. on where to send your dead hens if they pass away. But it sure does sound like chronic respitory disease. That would be bad as they would need to be killed and no more birds on the premises for 90 days. It is highly contagious. Sorry my spelling is terrible today. Gloria Jean

 

[purpletree23]

I googled Denagard and I don't know if it is the same thing as Tylan. Because I've never used this medication DO NOT USE MY MEASUREMENTS TO MAKE THE SOLUTION. I do not know what the measurements would be so please make sure you find out what they are.

 

[chicknmania]

When they are that sick it does't really hurt to treat with antibiotics, as it will eliminate any secondary infections that start, and help them to better combat whatever the problem is. (this is what the state vets suggested we do when our flock was sick a few years ago). When you figure out what it is than you can adjust the treatment accordingly. Also, make sure you research it; laws vary in every state about what diseases are mandatory culls, and what aren't. And lots of times you can successfully treat. Some people opt to cull and start over.

 

[bambikisstoby]

Tried 1 capful of Denagard per Gal. for 4 day's! Most but not all stopted sneezing! Gave them a week off the meds, now someone told me to try 4 Cc's per Quart for 5 day's! Cleaned everything! They seem fine just the sneezing! Someone in my area thinks they have the same thing Microplasma.

 

[bambikisstoby]

Well was holding a Hen and saw a tiny red bug crawling on her! Got my glasses on and found more!!! One even looked like it was under her skin! Are these Red Mites? Could this cause the sneezing? I dusted her with DE I had laying around and tomorrow off to the feed store! Never had bugs of any sort on my birds before! Haven't gotten any new birds !

 

[star2525]

The crate you loaned out that was used for Turkeys more than likely brought this in, and the hen being in it, she more than likely started getting symptoms between 5 and 15 days of being in that crate, and then she's spread it to the rest of your birds, and yes Turkeys can have Mycoplasmas, don't bother with Oxine, it won't kill Mycoplasmas, call them and ask them I did, and they told me it didn't. 10 to 15 percent bleach to water will kill the Mycoplasmas in the environment and Tek=trol will too, how are the chicks, I'm almost betting you lost some of them, if you got the Denagard, don't use other drugs with it before or after it for 7 days and be sure to put whatever chicks you have on it, and do them for 3 to 5 days a month at 2cc's to a quart of water, repeat every 3 weeks until they are over 4 months of age, then do monthly for the 3 to 5 days a month. And continue to use the Denagard for the older ones monthly even if you don't see any symptoms, you know they are infected, and it will continue to deteriorate their bodys even when you don't see symptoms, hopefully you caught it soon enough and can get it reduced in their systems. As far as hatching out chicks from these birds, you need to use the Denagard to try and keep it from passing to the eggs, it helps to stop it from passing to the eggs and getting carriers for it.

I hope your chickens are improved now, be sure to take care of the chicks, it will help to keep the lesions from forming in the chicks. I keep a can of Tek=trol Aerosol to spray whenever I've went near other birds or farms or the feed stores. A can costs about 8 dollars and is well worth it.

You need to get rid of those mites too, they will spread diseases. Use Hay for bedding or pine shavings, don't use straw it's hollow and harbors mites. And we all have to watch our birds for mites.

 

[star2525]

The maximum dose is 4cc's to a quart of water and you don't want to exceed that dose, exceeding it can cause stunting of growth and even death. The birds should have been on it for 5 days.

And to correctly treat them, you need to treat their environment while you're treating them for more effective results. easiest way is use a garden sprayer, move the birds for 5 days and treat them, while they're being treated use 10 to 15 percent bleach to water mix in the sprayer, saturate their coop including the floor and the ceiling and every crack and crevice, if they have a run, spray the ground of the run, clean all bedding and droppings out first and don't use them for compost, burn them. If your birds free range you don't want them re infecting themselves in the compost pile, so burn it. After the 5 days the coop should be pretty well aired out from the bleaching, and their environment cleaned of the remaining mycoplasma, they are treated as well, I would have advised you to repeat the treatment in about 3 weeks after.

There are precautions for using the Denagard, and I hope you got the Denagard 12.3 liquid concentrate, because there is a 10 one and it won't work for this. For precautions see www.tiamutin.com and look in the 12.5 solution information close to the bottom it tells what cannot be in the feed. For other drugs safely used with it, do a search in the empty box above the menu, for coccidiosis, another page will come up, from the list locate anti-coccidials and click on that, and read the drugs that are safe to use with it. Don't even use wormers with this, before the 7 days before or after its use.