Respiratory Infection? Corzya? Please help!

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No as dawg said,it is not passed through the eggs. I hatch all mine new birds from eggs now. I have 12 in lockdown as of today!!!
Sorry i didnt mean to be debby downer with my other post but it really is quite a serious disease. I had no idea that it even existed until my flock was diagnosed by necropsy. We had expensive show birds too and we love ours like pets. It was devastating.
 
mammat said:
No as dawg said,it is not passed through the eggs. I hatch all mine new birds from eggs now. I have 12 in lockdown as of today!!!
Sorry i didnt mean to be debby downer with my other post but it really is quite a serious disease. I had no idea that it even existed until my flock was diagnosed by necropsy. We had expensive show birds too and we love ours like pets. It was devastating.
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Thanks. It's kinda funny (not really) that I get more help from strangers on the internet than a vet and the University of Missouri. They told me that I could continue to show them, bring them to fairs, etc. Stupid people, huh?

So you keep your "carriers" in a seperate coop from the other birds? I really don't want to have to cull any (some survivors include my first few chickens that are over 15 years old...I love them almost as much as my dog!), but don't have a ton of options as to where I can move them permantly.


Currently, I have 3 Mille Fleur hens that had it the worst recovering in a large, unfinished bathroom in my basement. My most expensive show birds (4 of them) I moved into a stall in my barn when the others first started coughing, sneezing, etc. Now they are showing some symtoms. In my coop I have approx. 15 chickens and 4 Call Ducks. They all have shown some symtoms, except for the ducks.

Should I build a new coop farther away, move them all there, and then let the current coop sit for a while before introducing new birds? How far away should they be from eachother?

So, just clarifying: I can breed two infected birds, hatch the eggs, and the chicks won't be carriers?

Thanks for all your help.
 
I vaccinated my sick birds with the tissue culture origin vaccine when they were sick to stop them from dying. The following spring i had 36 new chicks and kept them separated from the original sick flock until they were vaccinated at 4 and 10 weeks. I then put them all together. Two of the new girls got sick and died but the rest were fine. We still have lingering illness at times. My silkie roo started wheezing last week and i gave him a shot of tylan. He seems better now. I have 11 silkies in the incubator and i will do the same protocol with them. The vaccine i used does not induce a carrier state so technically i can show them. I am a nurse and spent hours and hours reading all the research studies i could find on this disease. Honestly the sensible thing to do was to cull them and start over but we just couldnt do it. My kids would have been horrified. If you want to keep them you could vaccinate them and thrn vaccinate all your new birds. Vaccinating the sick birds seroconverts them to have immunity. Vaccinating new birds keeps them from catching any lingering virus in your environment. I read that this virus is so contagious that i could go to the feed store in my dirty boots and then you could walk were i had been and could carry the virus back to your coop!
 
mammat said:
The other thing that helped my birds was a cool mist humidifier with oxine in it. I really think that is the only thing that kept some of mine alive. Here is a link https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/707763/how-to-use-oxine-ah-in-a-humidifier
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mammat said:
I vaccinated my sick birds with the tissue culture origin vaccine when they were sick to stop them from dying. The following spring i had 36 new chicks and kept them separated from the original sick flock until they were vaccinated at 4 and 10 weeks. I then put them all together. Two of the new girls got sick and died but the rest were fine. We still have lingering illness at times. My silkie roo started wheezing last week and i gave him a shot of tylan. He seems better now. I have 11 silkies in the incubator and i will do the same protocol with them. The vaccine i used does not induce a carrier state so technically i can show them. I am a nurse and spent hours and hours reading all the research studies i could find on this disease. Honestly the sensible thing to do was to cull them and start over but we just couldnt do it. My kids would have been horrified. If you want to keep them you could vaccinate them and thrn vaccinate all your new birds. Vaccinating the sick birds seroconverts them to have immunity. Vaccinating new birds keeps them from catching any lingering virus in your environment. I read that this virus is so contagious that i could go to the feed store in my dirty boots and then you could walk were i had been and could carry the virus back to your coop!
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I suppose I read your last few posts wrong... lol I couldn't imagine having two different chicken coops, though I would probably do that just so I could keep my old birds and still show new ones!

Thank you so much for all your help!
 
Just had a little female Call Duck die last night... What is happening?!
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