Red Laced Cornish X and project talk (pics p. 8)

[AquaEyes]

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Working on it.
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Awesome! So keep it up, and I'll come to you in a few years....I have a ways to go before I'm done with school.

 

[Minniechickmama]

Gee, Gary, maybe you goofed and sent me eggs from those?

Still 5 in the cooker. Locking them down tonight.
Wish me luck.

 

[big medicine]

Luck

 

[Minniechickmama]

 

[pepper48_98]

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Steve.......

Nice hens! My hens are molting right now too and are looking pretty ragged but it will not be long untill the new feathers come in. In fact, most all my birds are in molt now or just comming out of one.

 

[SteveH]

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Steve.......

Nice hens! My hens are molting right now too and are looking pretty ragged but it will not be long untill the new feathers come in. In fact, most all my birds are in molt now or just comming out of one.

Thank you.

 

[Totalcolour]

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UPDATE

I took one bird to the vet on Monday. Vet had no idea what it was. The 3 in isolation don't seem to be getting worse. Vet supplied enough Baytril for one bird (since he hadn't any idea what the problem was), but since ILT is a virus, the Baytril probably won't do much good, and besides, at $25 for a small vial for one bird, it's really expensive. The rest of the Vet visit cost $175.

Yesterday they sent the Sussex to the state for a necropsy. So far, they "THINK" it might be ILT (Infectious Laryngotracheitis) but won't have a full answer until the end of the week (probably). This will cost $185 for the lab tests.

So, right now I'm treating all birds with apple cider vinegar in the water. So far (fingers and toes crossed) there haven't been any more showing symptoms since the young Sussex last Saturday.

There is no perceptible change in the bird getting the Baytril.

I'm trying to keep everything as separated and sanitary as possible. There have been no new additions to the flock, so have no idea how this came about - must have lain dormant in the meadow for the past few years, or perhaps a "visiting" bird?

I'm toying with the idea of culling all of them, and starting again in the spring - sanitizing the ground, coop, all the tractors etc, and letting the winter kill off any remaining viruses. I'll have a better idea after we get the diagnosis. The cost would probably be less than vaccinating ALL the birds.

What to do, what to do. . . . . . ?

TC

 

[SteveH]

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UPDATE

I took one bird to the vet on Monday. Vet had no idea what it was. The 3 in isolation don't seem to be getting worse. Vet supplied enough Baytril for one bird (since he hadn't any idea what the problem was), but since ILT is a virus, the Baytril probably won't do much good, and besides, at $25 for a small vial for one bird, it's really expensive. The rest of the Vet visit cost $175.

Yesterday they sent the Sussex to the state for a necropsy. So far, they "THINK" it might be ILT (Infectious Laryngotracheitis) but won't have a full answer until the end of the week (probably). This will cost $185 for the lab tests.

So, right now I'm treating all birds with apple cider vinegar in the water. So far (fingers and toes crossed) there haven't been any more showing symptoms since the young Sussex last Saturday.

There is no perceptible change in the bird getting the Baytril.

I'm trying to keep everything as separated and sanitary as possible. There have been no new additions to the flock, so have no idea how this came about - must have lain dormant in the meadow for the past few years, or perhaps a "visiting" bird?

I'm toying with the idea of culling all of them, and starting again in the spring - sanitizing the ground, coop, all the tractors etc, and letting the winter kill off any remaining viruses. I'll have a better idea after we get the diagnosis. The cost would probably be less than vaccinating ALL the birds.

What to do, what to do. . . . . . ?

TC

I feel you pain, and understand the questions going through your mind.

I bought a cockeral last year [at a show] that had watery nostrils, but didn't isolate him as he seemed fine after getting home the next day. After taking a bad beating from another cockeral, and standing outside the coop in freezing drizzle, he got quite ill. I isolated him and put him on tetracycline, and he snapped right out of it. I caught a lot of critism here at BYC, told chickens don't catch colds, and some said even if he lived my entire flock was infected and needed to be culled.

My vet said different, that he was suffering from a sinus infection commom to poultry, especially after duress, and that his quick recovery showed that he had nothing serious. He advized to watch the others, and if I started to loose a bunch, to have them necropsied. That cockeral seemed to have no immunity to anything, always spoiling for a fight and sick afterwards, and was later culled. While I treated my entire flock for them, he was the first and only bird that ever picked up mites; as I said, he just seemed to be a weak bird. I did have some necropsied after the buffalo gnat plague, some others pullerum tested at time of sale, and none are carrying a disease. I pray your experience goes along the same lines as mine.

 

[Totalcolour]

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Thank you Steve. I do remember you going through the buffalo gnat thing. ILT is a reportable disease, so I'm "hoping" that the diagnosis will be different, and that it's like yours, a bird "cold". At least none of the ducks seem to have contracted it. I'd hate to lose "EVERYTHING"

TC

 

[Tracydr]

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Thank you Steve. I do remember you going through the buffalo gnat thing. ILT is a reportable disease, so I'm "hoping" that the diagnosis will be different, and that it's like yours, a bird "cold". At least none of the ducks seem to have contracted it. I'd hate to lose "EVERYTHING"

TC

TC, I hope everyone gets well. What a mess! I always try to quarantine new animals if at all possible. I dealt with strangles in my horses after a horse sale and nearly lost a valuable yearling with jerk strangles. A long, expensive ordeal. Hope this isn't ILT and nobody else comes down with it. I'm sure a wild bird could have brought in anything, isn't that usually where this stuff comes from?