peafowl and guinea fowl

[peacockfarmer1]

can i put guineas with the peafowl without them fighting or getting any diseases?
also i need to know what medicine to buy incase they get sick from chickens
what all diseases do they get and how do you treat them?
what do you use to worm your peafowl? will wazine work?

 

[Choctaw Valley Farm]

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Shoot, I thought with that user name you already knew all this

1.Yes you can raise Peafowl and Guineas together.

2. If they are young the only thing I would worry about would be Blackhead: treatment > Metronitozol 3 tablets to 1 gallon of water.

3. Well there are a lot of things they can catch, most common is Sinusitis (Respiratory Disease)
Tylan 200 > 1cc for 3 to 4 days if you catch it before it gets bad. (I like to inject mine)

Baytril > 1/2cc for 3 days. (same here)


4. NO.... Wazine is like giving them water, use Safe Guard for Goats 3 to 4cc to 1 gallon of water for three days changing water daily. (you can also use Ivomec Plus but a lot of folks don't like to catch there birds).

This is a good starting place for you.

Steve

 

[peacockfarmer1]

thank you

 

[shelleyd2008]

The correct spelling for the blackhead medicine is metranidazole. it is more commonly known as fish-zole as it is used to treat infections in fish like cichlids.

Also, if they get any type of respiratory illness, treating the illness only makes the bird become a carrier. The best treatment of a bird with respiratory infections is culling.

 

[deerman]

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depend on the type not all are carriers, coryza yes cull....but not all respiratory disease ,recovering birds are not carriers.

 

[Yoda]

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Thank goodness I do not live with you! My nose will run and off goes my head!!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Thank goodness I do not live with you! My nose will run and off goes my head!!

Well, if you want to make sure that most, if not all, of your birds will be infected by the disease and that any eggs you hatch or chicks you raise will also be affected by it, then by all means treat them.

This would include any eggs you sell to other people because most of the 'carrier' respiratory diseases are also transfered to the chicks through the eggs (meaning that the chicks could be born with the infection).

 

[deerman]

Shelley just rememeber....not all ...you are thinking of only one of many...coryza yes , but alot of the other recoving birds are not carriers

 

[Choctaw Valley Farm]

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. it is more commonly known as fish-zole as it is used to treat infections in fish like cichlids.

Also, if they get any type of respiratory illness, treating the illness only makes the bird become a carrier. The best treatment of a bird with respiratory infections is culling.
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Well, I'm sorry I just spelt it the same way the Vet did on the bottle.........................


And if you would have read my post I was talking about Sinusitis treatments which is most common for Peafowl..............

This is the reason I don't like telling folks how to treat their birds.

Steve

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Coryza is one that makes the birds remain carriers but the eggs (embryos) are not affected.

Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG) is one that makes the bird a carrier and can be passed from the hens to the chicks. Another is Mycoplasma synoviae (infectious sinuvitis), this can also be passed through the egg to the chick but does not make the bird a carrier.

Others that make the birds become carriers are Infectious Laryngotracheitis, Chlamydiosis, Infectious Bronchitis, Lymphoid Leukosis, and Pullorum. Some of these are treatable but make the treated birds carriers, others are not treatable but the survivors of the disease are then carriers of it.

Of all of these the only one that does not make the bird a carrier is Mycoplasma synoviae.

There are others that are transmitted through the egg but I didn't list them all here.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044