Safeguard and Feather Damage While Molting

[casportpony]

Darn you, lol. I'm also still on the stupid iPad, so I know how you feel.


-Kathy

Whats up with the home puter 

The monitor goes black as soon as it heats up.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

 


Hmmm, not sure where you are going with the land thing but here are the answers.  First the chick was about three months old, its two siblings look fine. I have 160 acres.  The runoff near where the birds range is only from about 500 yards to the top of the hill in my pasture.  No one else has any run off onto my property except the spring fed creek.  There has not been any fowl raised here for at least sixty years until last year.  Flood water does not back up onto the ranging area the birds frequent.

We have treated some of the pens with lye, washed it into the soil, and covered with fresh sand.  The coops we clean out and shake with lime and cover with fresh pine shavings.  The ranging areas are not possible to disk and lime, although I did one field a few years ago when preparing it for planting clover.

Thanks for the condolences.  Hopefully someone will learn from my misfortune.

We need to learn the source of these overloads, worms surley do not survive forever without a host so how are/did the eggs getting in your area, see if ya had a bunch  animals that passed these eggs off in your soil i could understand but you just have peas right and you stated no other domestic birds for years , so the question that needs answering is why are there so many worms to begin.
Hope that makes sence

Wild birds are hosts for roundworms.

-Kathy

 

[KsKingBee]

And we have a lot of wild turkey s. Read my tag line, we have other birds too.

 

[Garden Peas]

I'm still looking for the "no Safeguard during molt" *source*... not because I don't believe it to be true, I just want to understand it better.

-Kathy

Oh dear heavens Kathy, don't shoot me, it came from you...

I cut and pasted the stuff below from the medical forum... where you were kind enough to post it a few months ago... (Can you tell I'm researching wormers today???) Apparently it's on the label under "birds" (second photo below):

(Begin quote) This is what it says:



-Kathy (End quote)

(I'm not smart enough to figure out how to get the text editor to combine quotes from different areas of the BYC website darn it)

Anyway, it's all helping a lot, and I'm on my way to Tractor Supply in a few minutes

Thanks very much for all the great info!

 

[casportpony]

I'm still looking for the "no Safeguard during molt" *source*... not because I don't believe it to be true, I just want to understand it better. -Kathy

Oh dear heavens Kathy, don't shoot me, it came from you... I cut and pasted the stuff below from the medical forum... where you were kind enough to post it a few months ago... (Can you tell I'm researching wormers today???) Apparently it's on the label under "birds" (second photo below): (Begin quote) This is what it says: -Kathy (End quote) (I'm not smart enough to figure out how to get the text editor to combine quotes from different areas of the BYC website darn it) Anyway, it's all helping a lot, and I'm on my way to Tractor Supply in a few minutes Thanks very much for all the great info!

Lol, what I meant was that I'm looking for the veterinary studies that were done saying that it shouldn't be used during molt and breeding season (Marshall 1993), but I'm not very good at finding that stuff. I think Dr. Lightfoot has also published info on it, but I haven't found it yet. -Kathy

 

[KsKingBee]

I saw the link to a msu study in a thread on byc when I was researching safeguard.

 

[casportpony]

This one?
http://msucares.com/poultry/diseases/solutions.html

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

More reading:
http://msucares.com/poultry/diseases/disparas.htm

-Kathy

 

[KsKingBee]

It may have been.

 

[casportpony]

I'm curious and wanna see how many birds, what breed, what stage of molt, etc. I don't out for a minute that there is no risk, I just want to know more about it.

-Kathy