Putting a turkey in with 5 hens?

[chooks4life]

You're welcome, it's an odd treatment but whatever works, works!

I personally copy important documents or educational resources and put them in a word document for later reference and this has the added benefit of being easy to reorganize and print into a form you can easily have on hand, in a binder or similar, so you don't have to turn on your PC to quickly find that 'emergency treatment for ______" --- much quicker when it's all labeled and sorted. I also copy anecdotal information to test out, because some of the most important things I've learned or implemented with my animals are mere anecdotes of the sort too many people dismiss without testing due to the lack of cites or links to back it up. Without an open mind we remain stuck in ignorance.

Best wishes.

 

[casportpony]

I have blackhead here and haven't lost any ducks to it. Not saying it doesn't affect them, just that I have not seen it in the *many* hundreds that I have raised. Turkey, peafowl, quail and chickens, that's another story. Since I started dealing with it I've lost four, two poults and two peachicks, but have successfully treated many others using metronidazole and Safeguard. Survival rate here using those drugs is over 90%, probably closer to 95%. If not caught soon enough, affected birds will probably also have an E. coli infection, which I treat with Baytril.

-Kathy

 

[chooks4life]

Waterfowl are much less susceptible to BH and some old texts refer to them as being used to control the common carriers of some diseases known to ravage non-waterfowl species. I've only ever seen BH once in a chicken, seems the average healthy chook won't get it or just won't show symptoms... Only a dying rooster showed symptoms in my flock, and even while dying of another issue he still got over it within 24 hours, LOL!

Good of you to share some info for the conventional therapy users or potential users, Kathy.

Always helpful when someone has something useful to contribute to a subject instead of just joining to flame people they disagree with, lol. Too many folks are too close-minded to even try anything that didn't come off a shelf to treat an illness when it's often the easiest way to treat and prevent illness, parasites, etc... But for sure it's good to have the conventional options stated too.

Best wishes.