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Hello, I know this is an old post but i want to ask did any of your tapeworms infected chickens got tears/little foam in her eyes after giving her the tapeworms medicine? I got a couple treated for tapeworms and they started getting watery eyes after medication, i read that tapeworms dying suddenly release toxins inside the chicken which causes watery eyes and I would like to know if that's the case or I got something else going on

Note: Yes it is 100% tapeworms i saw the segments and one of my chicks pooped a long tapeworms before she died

If anyone can answer my question thank you very much
 
Ray987 said:
Hello, I know this is an old post but i want to ask did any of your tapeworms infected chickens got tears/little foam in her eyes after giving her the tapeworms medicine? I got a couple treated for tapeworms and they started getting watery eyes after medication, i read that tapeworms dying suddenly release toxins inside the chicken which causes watery eyes and I would like to know if that's the case or I got something else going on

Note: Yes it is 100% tapeworms i saw the segments and one of my chicks pooped a long tapeworms before she died

If anyone can answer my question thank you very much
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Nope. I've dealt with tapeworms many times. I've never seen tears/foam in the eyes after using Zimecterin Gold or Equimax equine pastes to eliminate them. I suspect your birds may have something else going on. Tears with a little foam could possibly be an indication of Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG).
The stress on birds being handled and/or wormed may have brought out latent symptoms of MG that you were unaware of your carrier infected birds.
Have you added new birds to your flock at any given time? It could be the source of MG. Have you seen any other symptoms?
 
dawg53 said:
Nope. I've dealt with tapeworms many times. I've never seen tears/foam in the eyes after using Zimecterin Gold or Equimax equine pastes to eliminate them. I suspect your birds may have something else going on. Tears with a little foam could possibly be an indication of Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG).
The stress on birds being handled and/or wormed may have brought out latent symptoms of MG that you were unaware of your carrier infected birds.
Have you added new birds to your flock at any given time? It could be the source of MG. Have you seen any other symptoms?
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My flock possibly had mycoplasma indeed but everyone doing fine, I don't see any other symptoms, she's eating like a monster and drinking a lot, watery eyes and she's wiping it with her wings : (

To my knowledge there's no cure for mycoplasma, I guess I'm doomed?
 
Ray987 said:
My flock possibly had mycoplasma indeed but everyone doing fine, I don't see any other symptoms, she's eating like a monster and drinking a lot, watery eyes and she's wiping it with her wings : (

To my knowledge there's no cure for mycoplasma, I guess I'm doomed?
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Birds that survive MG are carriers for life. Stress can bring out symptoms. Worms can certainly cause stress and take a toll on the birds health, initiating MG symptoms.
 
Eggcessive said:
When you see symptoms of MG you can try treating the sick bird with Tylosin powder in the water 1 tsp per gallon of water for 5 days, or using Denagard. Get Tylosin here:
https://jedds.com/products/tylosin-...IAGLEGlfgX3NKu9M-UISmEqTzOgt-ZiOEOpFVrLLVS3Ds

Clean the eyes and apply some Terramycin eye ointment or Neosporin into the eye 2-3 times a day.
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Thanks, Do i need to give tylosin to the ones that are not showing symptoms too as prevention? Also would oxytetracycline work instead?
 
It's only necessary to treat birds that are showing symptoms. Tylan or oxytetracycline will treat symptoms.
Keep in mind that antibiotics do not cure the disease. Stress can bring out symptoms at any time.
Your other option is to cull the flock. Disinfect everything including feeders, waterers, inside coops to include roosts and nest boxes.
MG stays in the environment for 3 days. However, it would be best to wait 30 days before repopulating with new birds if that's what you decide to do.
 
dawg53 said:
It's only necessary to treat birds that are showing symptoms. Tylan or oxytetracycline will treat symptoms.
Keep in mind that antibiotics do not cure the disease. Stress can bring out symptoms at any time.
Your other option is to cull the flock. Disinfect everything including feeders, waterers, inside coops to include roosts and nest boxes.
MG stays in the environment for 3 days. However, it would be best to wait 30 days before repopulating with new birds if that's what you decide to do.
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I'm pretty sure 99% of the flocks in my country has mycoplasma so it's pointless to cull and start over, there's absolutely no way for me to tell if I'm buying an MG free chicken/eggs sadly
 
dawg53 said:
Where are you located? I'm in northeast Florida.
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Located in Syria, sadly the way people raise chickens around here has 0% biosecurity but I'm trying to do something different, I'm building up a large coop and gonna fence up some land and try to enhance the biosecurity inside my chickens farm but that's gonna take a month or so, meanwhile my chicks are exposed to all kind of things, even getting clean good quality feed is a challenge, there's no good vet in my city whenever I take a sick chicken to a vet all I get is guesses and I come back with absolutely no results so I've been trying to educate myself on diseases, this website has been a great help but it's pretty tough
So yep I would bet i can't get mycoplasma free chickens unless I get them from a whole different region
 

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