South Carolina

[RedBugPoultry]

The only thing I do here for fowl pox is a little neosporin on the sores if they look really bad and I do give electrolites in water to help get them through. I give electrolites from time to time anyway.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Amy--on another note, I do not think I have mentioned how much I love my Marans hens I hatched from your eggs! I kept 5 girls, 2 blue and 3 blacks, and the blacks lay the darkest eggs in the flock. The blues are the most beautiful Marans girls I have ever seen. Just wanted to share! I need to get some pictures posted.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I believe I used Sulmet when my birds had fowl pox years ago but it could have been something else.
It hasn't shown up here in quite a few years but they took out a lot of trees in the land behind me so I think that filled in the swampy areas when they delimbed the trees and let them lay. That and the Muscovy are powerful good at eating skeeters!

 

[RedBugPoultry]

I believe I used Sulmet when my birds had fowl pox years ago but it could have been something else.
It hasn't shown up here in quite a few years but they took out a lot of trees in the land behind me so I think that filled in the swampy areas when they delimbed the trees and let them lay. That and the Muscovy are powerful good at eating skeeters!

I could see using Sulmet for fowl pox, especially if it was a bad case or looked like it might turn into wet pox as it would help with the secondary infection.

 

[KrisH]

at the NPIP class state vet reccomended not vacinating unless you are known to have a problem, then went on to explain, vaccinated birds may shed the virus throughoit their lives poosibly infecting non vaccinated birds. which concerns me, because how can you be sure new birds you get somewhere were NEVER vaccinated. SO confusing!

RobertH

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I agree, Robert!
Quite often I get breeding birds that have had 2 or 3 owners before me and no one usually keeps good records. <sigh>

 

[CarolinaChickenKeeper]

I had mine vaccinated and I wouldn't do it again.  With zero exposure to other birds, all my chicks came down with coccidia at week 5 and it killed 7 out of 28 over the course of a week or so.  The only vector for infection was the vaccine IMHO.  The state poultry health vet I talked to said vaccinating home flocks isn't necessary and might be contributing to the rise of certain diseases. 

 

Are you saying your chicks died from cocci after receiving the cocci vaccine or another vaccine?

 

[blondechicken22]

upstate greenville/spartanburg area over here

 

[KPenley]

at the NPIP class state vet reccomended not vacinating unless you are known to have a problem, then went on to explain, vaccinated birds may shed the virus throughoit their lives poosibly infecting non vaccinated birds. which concerns me, because how can you be sure new birds you get somewhere were NEVER vaccinated. SO confusing!

RobertH

so vaccinated birds can pass on the disease they were vaccinated for? WHAT? How is this even possible? sooooooo scary

 

[KPenley]

upstate greenville/spartanburg area over here

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