Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

[mg15]

<snort> Thanks Kathy, but I think it painted a bulls eye on my back. It's a weird thing, now I have a responsibility to live up to <groan>. Not sure I can do that! False advertising and all that.

I don't know what a BYC Award is, but I know you give a lot of good advice on BYC.
Thank you and Congratulations.
mg

 

[Haunted55]

I don't know what a BYC Award is, but I know you give a lot of good advice on BYC.
Thank you and Congratulations.
mg

Thank-you....to everyone...I feel as if a mistake has been made here. I am just me and I am doing the best I can. To have this happen is a shock, because all I am trying to do is repay the kindness shown to me. I just hope I can live up to the expectations this award requires.

 

[seminolewind]

Congratulations, Haunted!!!!!

It's a good thing.

 

[seminolewind]

I just posted one, so you have an idea of what I'm talking about. The leg bones go all the way down to inside the hoof. That bone is prevented from sinking thru the bottom of the hoof by being held to the hard hoof wall. There is very little here to hold that bone up.

 

[casportpony]

So I made an interesting discovery regarding Corid doses, and it's bound to upset many people, lol. The doses here are supposed to give you water medicated at the .012% level. Then based on what an animal drinks, should yield 10mg/kg. The issue is that many people have been saying the the dose for the liquid is 9.5ml or 2 teaspoons, which is correct if one wants to dose at the .024% level and that is what is recommended for severe outbreaks in poultry. But those same people have been saying that the powder dose is only 1/2 a teaspoon, which I believe is actually less what's needed to get to the .012% level.

I'm still need to do the math for the powder, but I'm pretty sure that it's going to be way more than 1/2 a teaspoon. Maybe this is one of the reason why those of us with possible Marek's chicks are losing so many to coccidiosis? Have we been under-medicating?





"
K. Recommended Dosage:
Give amprolium at the 0.012% level (8 fl oz per 50 gallons) as soon as coccidiosis is diagnosed and continue for 3 to 5 days. (In severe outbreaks, give amprolium at the 0.024% level.) Continue with 0.006% amprolium medicated water for an additional 1 to 2 weeks. No other source of drinking water should be available to the birds during this time. Use as the source of amprolium."
Source: http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary...lDrugProducts/FOIADrugSummaries/ucm148849.htm

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I just posted one, so you have an idea of what I'm talking about. The leg bones go all the way down to inside the hoof. That bone is prevented from sinking thru the bottom of the hoof by being held to the hard hoof wall. There is very little here to hold that bone up.

I'm no expert, but I think there's lots of room for improvement there, lol. What's the story on that hoof?



-Kathy

 

[seminolewind]

I've been bringing ice cubes out for all the waterers. It's about 96 here today. I hope we get a thunder storm to break up the heat. Chickens look okay. I examine them all for how hard they pant. And I went to the car wash, so surely it's going to rain.

I made a spray bottle up of Virkon and water. It's helped me having something handy to decontaminate things. Like the cage my departed hen was in. I just spray it down, come back later and rinse. For big jobs I have the sprayer with the hose attached.

I got no eggs from the 12 big hens yesterday, and 4 from 10 Polish. I guess they're taking a break.
I think I need a chicken calendar for keeping track of treatments, worming, spraying, etc. I lose track of it.

 

[Eggcessive]

This is just my opinion, but I would not ever use the powder or recommend it after all of the discussion for the past week. I have never had an outbreak, but I have a small bottle of liquid on my shelf, and I would medicate using the maximum dose of 2 tsp per gallon of water. Unless the feed store doesn't carry the small bottle of liquid (which they should for chicken people, I just can't see the point of buying the powder.

 

[casportpony]

I'd be happier if it looked more like this;

Or this:

 

[casportpony]

This is just my opinion, but I would not ever use the powder or recommend it after all of the discussion for the past week. I have never had an outbreak, but I have a small bottle of liquid on my shelf, and I would medicate using the maximum dose of 2 tsp per gallon of water. Unless the feed store doesn't carry the small bottle of liquid (which they should for chicken people, I just can't see the point of buying the powder.

Ditto! And with the liquid you can give it orally, too!

-Kathy