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yep, that's a good point, you can almost always tell when a hen has eggs due to that dropped tail area.
Yes Baytril is a pretty darn good med, if it can be fixed, that'll do it. One of my peafowl buddies turned me on to it a few years back.
I agree with Destin though on the birds going light (when they die and there's nothing but feathers skin and a breast bone.
I have seen that in various birds for many years. It's never an out break, just one here on there over the years. When my NPIP guy came out last year, a old man I know was loosing a few of his chickens to something similar. They'd almost suddenly go from fat and healthy to barely able to move from emaciation before you really knew anything was even wrong with him. Same thing I have seen when some of my stuff got like that. You try everything in the world for them and none ever make it seems like.
SO I asked him seeing how he was a disease guy. Yes it is Avian Tuberculosis. We talked about it for a minute, and unfortunately, there's not a darn thing you can to to fix one with it, they're just going to die from it plain and simple. Good thing is it's not contagious bird to bird, but from what he told me comes from birds eating feed that contaminated mice or rats have been on, or eating their droppings out of the food bowls.
Keep your feed spillage down, bags close up good , and try to feed in the mornings where all feed will be consumed before night when the little nasty #$%'s come out to eat was his biggest recommendations to prevent it. Since I did all that, I havent lost another bird to it fingers crossed, though it was never a huge problem anyway. But to me to loose one like that is too many. I also got a bunch of yard cats since them to keep around the birds and in the feed barn to help keep mice numbers beat back, seems to be working too, fat cats and not much mouse signs out there. My buddy did all that too and has since only lost 1-2 birds.
Cant hurt!!
Yes Baytril is a pretty darn good med, if it can be fixed, that'll do it. One of my peafowl buddies turned me on to it a few years back.
I agree with Destin though on the birds going light (when they die and there's nothing but feathers skin and a breast bone.
I have seen that in various birds for many years. It's never an out break, just one here on there over the years. When my NPIP guy came out last year, a old man I know was loosing a few of his chickens to something similar. They'd almost suddenly go from fat and healthy to barely able to move from emaciation before you really knew anything was even wrong with him. Same thing I have seen when some of my stuff got like that. You try everything in the world for them and none ever make it seems like.
SO I asked him seeing how he was a disease guy. Yes it is Avian Tuberculosis. We talked about it for a minute, and unfortunately, there's not a darn thing you can to to fix one with it, they're just going to die from it plain and simple. Good thing is it's not contagious bird to bird, but from what he told me comes from birds eating feed that contaminated mice or rats have been on, or eating their droppings out of the food bowls.
Keep your feed spillage down, bags close up good , and try to feed in the mornings where all feed will be consumed before night when the little nasty #$%'s come out to eat was his biggest recommendations to prevent it. Since I did all that, I havent lost another bird to it fingers crossed, though it was never a huge problem anyway. But to me to loose one like that is too many. I also got a bunch of yard cats since them to keep around the birds and in the feed barn to help keep mice numbers beat back, seems to be working too, fat cats and not much mouse signs out there. My buddy did all that too and has since only lost 1-2 birds.
Cant hurt!!
