swollen shut eyes, and foul smelling, running nose. Update post *50

[Farmerboy16]

Is there anyway that I can permanently get rid of Coryza?
Can I take the ducks, and the guineas to the swap, as they are not infected, or is that too much of a risk?
If I treat them with sulmet, can I still eat the eggs?

 

[dawg53]

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Yes, you can permanently get rid of the coryza. Cull. Then disinfect everything with oxine including waterers and feeders.

 

[robin416]

I'm afraid I have to agree with Dawg on this one. I'm one of those people that will push to the absolute limit but with this one there is no permanent fix for. If you really don't want to cull then close the flock, do not bring any more in, do not hatch anything and for heaven's sake don't pass the problem off to someone else. Remember they will look totally fine but something as simple as a weather change can bring it back out again. Or a really tough bird may not display symptoms until it goes to a new home.

 

[featherz]

qcsupply sells denagard, btw. It's still expensive, but no vet needed and no egg withdrawal. Everything else, yes, you'll need to toss eggs.

That said, I think you'll have to cull those birds OR keep them, whichever you prefer. You can't take them to the swap. They will be permanent carriers, from everything I have read.

I don't know if ducks or guineas can get or pass MG/Coryza - another expert needs to answer that one.

 

[robin416]

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Good point on the expert. Call your state vet, ask them about birds that are not affected by Coryza and whether it can be carried to other chickens.

 

[dawg53]

Apparently, ducks can get similar respiratory diseases with the same symptoms. As with coryza, they are infective.
http://www.liveducks.com/health.html

Peafowl, pheasants, guinea fowl and turkeys are all susceptable to coryza. They are all carriers once they get it. Here's a link showing how it can be transmitted etc... This is one disease you dont want to mess with.
http://www.peafowl.org/ARTICLES/15/

 

[Farmerboy16]

I have lots of chickens that are not sick, can I still keep them for breeding? Cull all of the ones that are/was sick? But my peachicks are sick, and I do not want to cull them. My method of culling the poultry is selling them to a lady who uses them for meat, I can't to the killing, don't have the stomach to do it. All of my laying hens looks fine, and most of the roosters looks fine too. All of the turkeys, ducks, guineas, geese looks good also. Do I have to treat the ones that are not sick? This is so hard for me.

 

[robin416]

Read this link completely. It might give you some hope but the problem is they will have to stay on the drug forever. You would also have to know which birds were sick and never take them off the property.

http://www.ah.novartis.com/products/en/denagard_premix_pig.shtml

 

[ranchhand]

Just my opinion, but if you have Coryza in your flock(s) NONE of your birds should go anywhere without extreme biosecirity measures, if it's even possible that that would work. Nor should you go around swaps or sales. Too easy to carry the infection on your clothing, hands, etc.

 

[Farmerboy16]

Can the uninfected birds can transmit coryza to other birds? Is the coryza is transmittable from mother to egg to chick if I hatch it myself? If the coryza is not transmittable from hen to chick, then can I disinfect everything with oxine including waterers and feeders, and start over with my own hatching eggs from my own birds? Keep the ones that I can't get rid of penned up, and keep them on meditation the rest of their life? I feel like quitting the whole thing that I have worked so hard the past 9 years.