Sumatra Hen with Bubbles coming out of her beak

Quote:Place this hen in a dog crate filled with dry leaves. While she's in your hands, stuff a whole garlic clove ( cut into slices if too large) down into her gullet. Always keep cranassure gel caps (for people with chronic urinary tract infections) on hand. Whenever a bird looks a bit off -giver a soft gel cap-
You will also want to make walnuts and or almonds available for her to eat. Cease feeding mashes, crumbles or pellets.


This upper respiratory infection is caused my mycoplasma contamination. Its time to recalibrate your husbandry protocols.

 

Oh- I can see why that might have rubbed you the wrong way. I didn't mean to imply anything negative. By recalibrate- I mean- we unintentionally create disease vectors -generally with feed particulates- the disintegrated particles that make up pellets, crumbles and mashes. The material becomes more or less airborne -its scratched up with dust- mixes with similarly kicked up fecal material- its been tracked around on feet and preened onto the feathers- but let's start at the beginning.
We get little chicks and feed them chick starter. Dollars to donuts its the chick mash that was first inhaled into the air sacs.. These particulates get lodged into the bird's respiratory system where they may just end up becoming dissolved or at least not harmful. Once the birds become adult sometimes the particulate inhalation becomes problematic.

In the autumn, when birds spend just a few more hours together indoors - tucking their beaks to sleep- putting out more heat than during the spring and summer months-
it tends to enable the birds -the capacity to ingest material -made up of the aforementioned properties- and this ends up in the bird's body. This is largely due to the actions of preening. Preening leads to further inhalation of dust particulate matter ( "poultry smut").

This happens to everyone. Some breeds are more vulnerable than others.

 

No worries! I hope that it's some relief that Guineafowl are not disease vectors. The issue is largely environmental. Perhaps whomever had the bird beforehand did not keep it in the most sanitary conditions. I'd just get the bird hopped up on cranberry gel caps and garlic clove.

 

Resolution, can dried cranberries be substituted for the gel caps as a preventative?
Carrie Lynn

 

So would this be the same if the bird also sneezed?

 

Quote:They certainly can be. Foragecakes contain them as do Babycakes- but really- its the cranberry seed oil that is most valuable here.
The products I've listed here utilise cranberry biproducts that are higher in seeded pulp than the washed dry cranberries deemed fit for human consumption.

The cranassure is made of cold-pressed cranberry seed oil. Its also chock full of vitamin C- something great for human and bird when plagued with an internal infection.

Getting back to dried cranberries- yes- they can be used and are a fantastic preventative. Dark red fruits in general- pomegranates, black cherries- this time of year pomegranates are readily available- they work miracles.

Another fruit every serious poultier needs to know about is the paw paw . This is a fruit that can be frozen for future use. It is a miracle cure all in my book.

Persimmons are also useful as are Pumpkins- these fruits im talking about -they provide all sort of nutrients that your birds should be gorging on during the autumn and early winter.

Frequent supplement days through the winter of these antioxidant, vitamin rich fruits- and of course animal fat- these will help to keep your flocks healthy all winter and prevent against infection.

Babycakes are a fantastic supplement for adult birds for all these reasons but if you have a bird that is already getting ill you've got to stuff it with raw garlic, raw ginger, cranassure- and keep it away from pellets, mashes and crumbles- indeed once you've got a mycoplasma infection you've got to turpentine the hell out of the enclosures- change perches- fill up the coop with dried leaves- store contractor bags of dry leaves for use all winter- this is the ideal bedding-
Feeding tables need to be constructed- you've got to get your hens away from their droppings and their droppings from their feed-

replace dusty particulate feed materials with extruded kibbles and whole seeds and grains- and also supplement with these fruits as just roughly outlined.

It will be critical that each hen house is outfitted with poop hammocks- and that feeding table be built where all feed stuffs are kept well off the floor.

 

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