Please tell me this isn't the same thing that killed my sweet Mia 2 days ago

[007Sean]

Guys please help!! I lost my sweet tuxedo quail mia a couple days ago and now this one has come up sneezing and this red lump under one eye..she's clawing it to death and quite mean..she had Neosporin on her in the pics but none of my other birds were ever around Mia..and I kept Mia alive nearly 2 weeks.. but this one is showing SOME of the same signs Mia did..both these birds as well as the other 8 tuxedos all were bought on the same day,they are all the same age,came from the same place,everything..I bought 4 jumbo courtinix a couple days later but they r kept on a Entire diff side of the property..is this going to happen to all of them like a bad bloodline??this tuxedo quail is Freya

They have all been exposed to MG. The seller's flock most likely is infected with MG....it's not genetics....either the seller doesn't know their flock has it or doesn't care. I certainly wouldn't buy anymore from the seller.
The sad fact is, you will have to cull all the birds, disinfect everything, cages, coop, waterers, feeders, even your clothes and shoes you have worn while working with your birds.
Even if they survive the initial infection, they are carriers for life. If they breed, MG can still be transmitted vertically through the egg.

This is the reason I always stress biosecurity and sanitation.
Sorry your having to go through this, it's really a horrible disease.

 

[Tuxedoquailowner]

Mycoplasma gallisepticum or MG is a common chronic respiratory disease that can affect quail and other poultry. Symptoms can include bubbles or foam in an eye, swollen eyelids, sticky nasal drainage, sneezing, and others. It is contagious by direct contact, in water, and can be transmitted to chicks through a hatching egg. Treatments include Tylosin, and a few other antibiotics. The disease cannot be cured, although symptoms may go away, and the whole flock should be considered carriers.

 

[Tuxedoquailowner]

They have all been exposed to MG. The seller's flock most likely is infected with MG....it's not genetics....either the seller doesn't know their flock has it or doesn't care. I certainly wouldn't buy anymore from the seller.
The sad fact is, you will have to cull all the birds, disinfect everything, cages, coop, waterers, feeders, even your clothes and shoes you have worn while working with your birds.
Even if they survive the initial infection, they are carriers for life. If they breed, MG can still be transmitted vertically through the egg.

This is the reason I always stress biosecurity and sanitation.
Sorry your having to go through this, it's really a horrible disease.

Thank you 007sean for trying to help me with my sweet Mia..I kept her alive nearly 2 weeks..I was shattered when she died..now Freya has come down with some similar symptoms..I still had some enrotex antibiotic left from Mia (took over a week to get to me and she only had 3 days of the antibiotic before she had a seizure) but I started giving Freya the enrotex yesterday and I put a heat lamp on her around 1 am this morning..she's wanting to sit in her water..no matter what I do (even before I put the heat lamp in she always wanted to sit in the water when I first pulled her away from the rest of my flock, any ideas to why she does this..when I hold her she makes a little coo noise when I put the Neosporin and saline eye rinse on 2x daily.. sweet Mia never put up a fight with her eye rinse and would even follow me around like a puppy a couple days before she died but freya tries to peck my hands ..sorry it took so long to respond..I never got the notification until I logged in on the website.. do I still need to kill all the tuxedos if they aren't showing signs of infection yet I don't think I have the heart to kill them..poor things can't help it but the breeder (like I mentioned earlier) has just about every known bird to man,every shape size color of each type of bird.. especially chickens and keeps them all together on a big farm..like turkeys geese peacocks ducks chickens run loose and quail are in super tight cages all jumbled together..I was unaware of this when my husband purchased them (I remained in the car) otherwise I never would have got them for infection /disease risk..they are the cutest little birds..

 

[Tuxedoquailowner]

Thanks eggcessive for responding..I just saw your message when I logged in.. when you say chronic do you mean she will always be itching scratching and swelled up under her eyes or do you mean It comes and goes

 

[Tuxedoquailowner]

They have all been exposed to MG. The seller's flock most likely is infected with MG....it's not genetics....either the seller doesn't know their flock has it or doesn't care. I certainly wouldn't buy anymore from the seller.
The sad fact is, you will have to cull all the birds, disinfect everything, cages, coop, waterers, feeders, even your clothes and shoes you have worn while working with your birds.
Even if they survive the initial infection, they are carriers for life. If they breed, MG can still be transmitted vertically through the egg.

This is the reason I always stress biosecurity and sanitation.
Sorry your having to go through this, it's really a horrible disease.

They have all been exposed to MG. The seller's flock most likely is infected with MG....it's not genetics....either the seller doesn't know their flock has it or doesn't care. I certainly wouldn't buy anymore from the seller.
The sad fact is, you will have to cull all the birds, disinfect everything, cages, coop, waterers, feeders, even your clothes and shoes you have worn while working with your birds.
Even if they survive the initial infection, they are carriers for life. If they breed, MG can still be transmitted vertically through the egg.

This is the reason I always stress biosecurity and sanitation.
Sorry your having to go through this, it's really a horrible disease.

 

[Tuxedoquailowner]

This is Freya a few min ago 10 14 21 ..the bubbles are gone in her eye but she's sneezing like crazy, constantly scratching her eye, and still wanting to lay in her waterer..(which I don't let her do) she's on fresh puppy pads (like Mia was)

 

[Tuxedoquailowner]

This is Freya a few min ago 10 14 21 ..the bubbles are gone in her eye but she's sneezing like crazy, constantly scratching her eye, and still wanting to lay in her waterer..(which I don't let her do) she's on fresh puppy pads (like Mia was)

 

[Tuxedoquailowner]

This is what one of my other tuxedos looks like (took this pic today with their new chicken nesting pads,really easy to shake off, Decided to move away from shavings)

 

[Nabiki]

From the response you've been getting, if you choose to not cull your entire covey and completely sterilize, this disease will always be there. It will not go away. If you choose to keep these birds, they may or may not die from this disease, but you absolutely should not get any new birds until these are gone and you have completely sterilized their living area.

In addition to not getting any new birds, if you give/sell any birds or eggs from this group to anyone else, you will likely give them this disease as well. This is why you were advised to cull them all, sterilize everything, including the clothes and shoes that you wear when working with/petting them, and start over. Bio-security is an important part of raising birds.

 

[Tuxedoquailowner]

From the response you've been getting, if you choose to not cull your entire covey and completely sterilize, this disease will always be there. It will not go away. If you choose to keep these birds, they may or may not die from this disease, but you absolutely should not get any new birds until these are gone and you have completely sterilized their living area.

In addition to not getting any new birds, if you give/sell any birds or eggs from this group to anyone else, you will likely give them this disease as well. This is why you were advised to cull them all, sterilize everything, including the clothes and shoes that you wear when working with/petting them, and start over. Bio-security is an important part of raising birds.

Thanks for the clarification.. so pretty much it's just not worth getting any birds ever..I did all I could keeping both types of quail in separate cages and on different sides of the property and I'm always out there cleaning their feeder /waterer and it's still not enough because the breeder didn't do their due diligence and warm us these birds might be infected and didn't keep all of his birds separated.. this is awful..as long as the others don't show symptoms I guess I'll just keep them and let them live out their days as pets now.. even Freya if she clears up.. pretty expensive pets but they can't help it.. and just hang my hat up on EVER getting more