The number one symptom of any and all salmonella infections is diarrhea. This is true whether it is diarrhea in humans or diarrhea in chicks, and turkey poults. In the past the disease we know know today as pullorum salmonella, was called fowl typhoid, and before that it was known in the poultry industry as "White Bacillary Diarrhoea" (sp)
http://books.google.com/books?id=YxQxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=white+bacillus+diarrhea+in+poultry&source=bl&ots=nKDXBhvNbU&sig=TFqslI30ToziqVsp0OJ3VlQHB78&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ck1YUe3OH4zY8gStqYDwBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=white%20bacillus%20diarrhea%20in%20poultry&f=false
Above is a link to a book first printed and copy righted in 1917. This was 96 years ago. This text book was authored by a man named T. E. Quisenberry and was published by the American School of Poultry Husbandry in Levenworth, Kansas.
Quisenberry wrote this book for farmers at a time when people but especially farmers spoke plainly and clearly, no cute pet names of diseases for Quisenberry. However, Quisenberry correctly describes pullurm salmonilla or fowl typhoid and identifies it as “White Bacillary Diarrhoea.” The spelling is Quisenberry‘s. “White Bacillary Diarrhoea” was easy for the farmers of 96 years ago to remember. On the other hand “Pasty Butt” would have meant a lazy wall paper hanger.
Here is another link that identifies White Bacillary Diarrhoea and describes it.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bacillary+white+diarrhoea
This is the old defination for “White Bacillary Diarrhoea” aka pullorum disease aka fowl typhoid aka pullorum salmonella.
bacillary white diarrhoea (noun)
- a serious bacterial disease of young chickens
bacillary white diarrhea, pullorum disease
animal disease - a disease that typically does not affect human beings
bacillary white diarrhoea (noun)
- a serious bacterial disease of young chickens
In order to demonstrate how fast human knowledge about our fine feathered friends advanced in the 40 years between Queensbury’s writings in 1917 when he calls Pullorum disease “White Bacillary Diarrhea” here is an English book on poultry farming copyrighted 40 years earlier in 1877. This book is from Harvard Universities’ library of old books. There is almost no mention about diarrhea of any kind in this book but there is a cure given for diarrhea. See what it has to say about treating diarrhea in chickens cia 1877. Good luck curing your chickens with this treatment. Unfortunately we now seem to be regressing to the 1877 level in the knowledge department.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38606/38606-h/38606-h.htm#Page_150
I have raised or helped raise many 1,000s of chicks hatched under a hen. I have also raised a multitude of 1,000s of chicks hatched in an incubator and brooded on the floor of a special chicken house or in battery brooders. There is nothing inherent in naturally reared or organically grown chickens that provide any immunity from communicable chicken diseases. They are just chickens and their DNA can be and most likely is identical to all other chickens who have the same mama and daddy. In fact the opposite is true. Think about it, chickens from organic flocks have little or no natural immunity to most chicken diseases unless they have been vaccinated or exposed to these diseases. Vaccinated chickens are in my opinion non-organic and the organic non-vaccinated chickens are most likely dead already.
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I'm sorry about all of your loses. I'm interested to see how McMurray handles it. I've heard good reviews on their customer service. Of course good customer service doesn't help when you keep losing chicks.
