Oh Lordy No!!! Our flock is sick - with WHAT?!?

[fifelakelooper]

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You can also send in your deceased to the MSU lab for analysis. I think you live downstate and could take to Lansing. You may want to KNOW for sure what you are dealing with prior to bringing in any new chickens. I am so sorry...it is heartbreaking I know. Farmerboy16 had to cull something like 200.

 

[pips&peeps]

It's ILT. You need to contact either Peter Brown or Twin City and get some vaccine or you will likely loose them all.

MG rarely kills.

 

[Ksane]

MG may rarely kill by itself but the airsaculitis it causes can and will kill them. Sometimes in a matter of hours. I read an article where they injected chickens with e .coli (which also can cause airsaculitis) and literally within 3 hrs the infection had gone to their air sacs. Which in chickens usually kills them.

 

[beanmcnulty]

I went through all this about a month ago- Tylan comes in 2 concentrations, i see a lot of people posting the wrong dosages, it's ~35 mg/kg, Tylan 50 is 50 mg/ml so for a 3.5 kg bird that is 123 mg Tylan. So, 2.5 ml for Tylan 50, and 0.6 ml for Tylan 200. I gave it to my worst ones orally for 4 days (3-5) and the rest got denegard. They have been eating better and hopefully will start laying again soon. My plan after lots of research is- in 2 years to treat a huge batch of hatching eggs with the tylan dip, process the adults, and start over. Until then, no one gets out alive! And they get Denegard monthly. My mortality was 2, out of about 40, that is not too bad.

 

[onthespot]

short answer. Tylan 200 is four times more concentrated than Tylan 50. If you give them the 200 at the 50 dose, you are overdosing them by 400%.

 

[beanmcnulty]

Sometimes a long answer is helpful!

 

[liz allen]

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i lost 3 chickens and a duck to E coli last week,killed them within 12 hours all on a 7 day course of oral septrin, no more deaths and everyone seems happy

 

[Ksane]

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i lost 3 chickens and a duck to E coli last week,killed them within 12 hours all on a 7 day course of oral septrin, no more deaths and everyone seems happy

Did the vet diagnose it? I SLEEP with my fingers crossed. I've lost 4 or 5 to it the past few months. The vet told me the survivors are carriers. Did your vet tell you that? I've built them separate pens and keep them on the other side of the house because I'm scared of getting others sick.

 

[liz allen]

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i lost 3 chickens and a duck to E coli last week,killed them within 12 hours all on a 7 day course of oral septrin, no more deaths and everyone seems happy

Did the vet diagnose it? I SLEEP with my fingers crossed. I've lost 4 or 5 to it the past few months. The vet told me the survivors are carriers. Did your vet tell you that? I've built them separate pens and keep them on the other side of the house because I'm scared of getting others sick.

Vet diagnosed it after autopsy , didn't say they would be carriers though, i think it's just something that can be cured with medication, but she did say in can stay in the soil for up to 3 years, and is caught from wild birds and rodents. i'm just hoping for a harsh winter to help kill some germs.

 

[Ksane]

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Did the vet diagnose it? I SLEEP with my fingers crossed. I've lost 4 or 5 to it the past few months. The vet told me the survivors are carriers. Did your vet tell you that? I've built them separate pens and keep them on the other side of the house because I'm scared of getting others sick.

Vet diagnosed it after autopsy , didn't say they would be carriers though, i think it's just something that can be cured with medication, but she did say in can stay in the soil for up to 3 years, and is caught from wild birds and rodents. i'm just hoping for a harsh winter to help kill some germs.

My vet said the same thing about wild birds and rodents. We tried to save all the ones that got sick. We gave injections for a week and managed to save 3. He also gave me LS50 for in the water, I think the 's' stands for septrin.
OP, don't mean to hijack your thread but it's entirely possible that's what your birds problem is also. Very under-diagnosed.