- Apr 2, 2010
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hmmmm the incubation period
"the incubation period is between 6-48 hours, the patient with salmonellosis experiences gastroenteritis (fever, vomitting, diarhea, and abdominal cramps). Intestinal ulceration is rare and blood invasion is uncommon.
Diagnosis usually consists of isolating the Salmonella serotype from stool specimans or rectal swabs, using differential media." This can take up to 72 hours to culture.
Sounds more like Ecoli (which you can get from chickens too) Ecoli especially 0157-H7 has a very fast incubation period and cause bloody diahrea.
At any rate to confirm either they would need a culture. And both treated with antibiotics, so definatly the best course of action.
But also both of these have many other sources.
Just an FYI not ALL chickens harbor salmonella. If it was from your chickens there are ways to get rid of it, which would involve treating your entire pen with a bleach solution brand new bedding, and treating your chickens with antibiotics for 10-14 days. Preferably broad spectrum like erthromycin (can't remember the brand for chickens)
This is important due to the fact that if you like fried or soft boiled eggs the organism can live in an not hard yolk.
I did a project in school about vaccinations of chickens for salmonella, by injecting them with an antibody serum, the research showed that is was very effective, but that egg producers don't want to spend the money.
of course i went off on a tagent...sorry.
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"the incubation period is between 6-48 hours, the patient with salmonellosis experiences gastroenteritis (fever, vomitting, diarhea, and abdominal cramps). Intestinal ulceration is rare and blood invasion is uncommon.
Diagnosis usually consists of isolating the Salmonella serotype from stool specimans or rectal swabs, using differential media." This can take up to 72 hours to culture.
Sounds more like Ecoli (which you can get from chickens too) Ecoli especially 0157-H7 has a very fast incubation period and cause bloody diahrea.
At any rate to confirm either they would need a culture. And both treated with antibiotics, so definatly the best course of action.
But also both of these have many other sources.
Just an FYI not ALL chickens harbor salmonella. If it was from your chickens there are ways to get rid of it, which would involve treating your entire pen with a bleach solution brand new bedding, and treating your chickens with antibiotics for 10-14 days. Preferably broad spectrum like erthromycin (can't remember the brand for chickens)
This is important due to the fact that if you like fried or soft boiled eggs the organism can live in an not hard yolk.
I did a project in school about vaccinations of chickens for salmonella, by injecting them with an antibody serum, the research showed that is was very effective, but that egg producers don't want to spend the money.
of course i went off on a tagent...sorry.
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