QUESTION! NEED RESPONCE & OPINIONS! PLEASE

[MissPrissy]

Glad to help when I can.

 

[MrsSmitho]

and it is GREATLY appreciated

totally off the subject...I was reading your blog on your goats, and the once you smelled them after washing, milking and showering...only to discover it was the soap you were using to clean then and then the dishes?...

I have learned the only way I can handle the smell of doing dishes anymore, is to NOT use the same soap I use in the "dunking" process when I cull birds !!

Took 2 times "prepairing" dinner to figure it out, but finally did! I HAD to laugh out loud!! hehehe, glad it isn't only me...

UPDATE: I had posted same question on the "emergency" thread, for more info...and someone hooked me up with Pardue University...on the 3rd person for their opinion, but they were VERY quick to answer and place me with the best person for the question. I will post what the gentelman says.Below is his "credits" and as soon as I hear from him, I will share.

Thanks to all!!
This is Dr. Bryan from their branch lab in southern Indiana
Over the years the National Poultry Improvement Plan(NPIP) has been largely a voluntary group of hatching egg producers who have eradicated poultry diseases which are egg transmitted. By way of this email, I am putting you in contact with a fine Purdue University graduate veterinarian specialized in poultry diagnostics who is an excellent resource person for poultry questions of east Texas, knows the Texas NPIP program thoroughly and can suggest a source of hatching eggs, answer questions about avian pox vaccine use, and suggest links for maximizing hatchability.
So with that, let me introduce you to Dr Jose Linares of the Texas Diagnostic Lab in Gonzales!


...more later...back to the girls, we are having a "hang out" day

Kim

 

[MrsSmitho]

ok, yall - GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!

after elaborate chats with an ag guy, and a lab guy for the state, and another guy (vet, i believe) through the AG guy...they all determined, from the symptoms I told them...

we do not have Coryza!!

I am so relieved!!

I am posting a link to the Merick Vet manual...very good to have on-hand.

And also a bit of advise from the lab guy...Lysole. As a preventive, going into and out of people with chickens place and feed stores...just precautionary...spray the bottom of your shoes.

He also said the bacteria only stays in the soil (in Tx weather, anyway) for about 30 days.

Thank you all!

Kim

 

[PoultryPedia]

Came across some info on Infectious Coryza posted on the University of Maine pages at:

How is the disease transmitted?
-- Chickens that have recovered from the disease or chronically sick chickens are carriers of the bacterium and are the main source of the infection.
-- On farms where multiple ages of chicken flocks are raised AIC occurs 1-6 weeks after contact between susceptible chickens and carrier birds. People handling sick birds or dead birds may transmit the disease to susceptible healthy birds. The disease may be spread by airborne route on high-density farms.
-- (Contaminated objects) contaminated with secretions from infected birds, such as people's clothing, crates and trucks, tools, egg flats may serve as vehicles of transmission to other locations for a short period of time (hours more likely than days).
-- Wild birds are not infected but may possibly mechanically transmit AIC if they had contact with infected birds.
-- Inside a chicken house or complex the disease is spread by contact between infected and non-infected birds, air-borne mucus droplets, contaminated feed augers or drinking water in trough systems.
-- The disease is not transmitted into eggs or via the egg to baby chicks.

How long does the bacterium survive outside the chicken?
Fortunately the bacterium is very delicate and does not survive outside the chicken for long. The bacterium is killed in water within 4 hours at ambient temperature. It can survive in secretions from infected birds for several days at cool temperatures. Disinfectants for use in poultry facilities are fully effective at recommended recommendations.

It can be hard to track what symptoms & treatments tie to which diseases.