This is urgent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[leadwolf1]

I'm so sorry for your losses

Hold off on getting eggs or anything until the results are in...that way, you will know if you need to vaccinate or do anything special to protect the new babies!

 

[PaulaSB12]

I won't do it until I have been on holiday.

 

[PaulaSB12]

The verdict is in I have chickens with maycoplasm. The vet has ordered some medicine and I will pick it up on friday (I am day shift 7 am to 7pm wednesday and thursday. So everyone will be dosed.

 

[speckledhen]

They did a necropsy or blood test?

Just know that if they do have that, no antibiotic can cure it. They will remain carriers. You have to know this to take precautions in dealing with them so as not to carry their germs with you to other flock owners' places or sell birds who are carriers.

I'm sorry.

 

[PaulaSB12]

Actually neither and what you have said may give me hope it may not be. He said it was an upper respiratory disease probably the mycoplasma but it was diagnosed from looking at a live chicken and not taking a blood test so hopefully its something that can be cured with antibiotics. Otherwise I am going to euthanise the flock and start again.

 

[speckledhen]

He cannot diagnose without a test. It's a guess. Anyone on BYC could have done that. Fungal infections are not contagious and can sound like pneumonia, caused by spores that are inhaled. The worst thing to do is give antibiotics with that. So, he can't say what it is with no testing. Bet he charged you anyway.

 

[flewdacoop]

sorry for yalls loses

 

[PaulaSB12]

Chicken no 4 has gone she will have to stay in the fridge until friday and then I will get an autopsy done on her. As for charging for the other hen not yet. If it turns out she did have mg I am going to inform the Fur and feather market they have a seller selling infected birds at auction which is bad. If it is mg I am going to have to cull the last of the hens and restock, after making sure the coop is clean.

 

[speckledhen]

If you do get an necropsy, at least you will know for sure, Paula. It could be mycoplasmosis, I have no way of knowing that myself, and the vet certainly didn't know that by looking at the bird without any testing whatsoever. I'm very sorry for what you're going through.


Your situation is why I never buy started birds, not even chicks. Everything is hatched right here and eggs either come from my own flock or from breeders who have a strict cull-for-illness policy.

 

[flewdacoop]

good luck keep us updated soory for your loss