Trying again..vaccine to PREVENT coryza. Anyone tried or have info?

[ChooksChick]

I'd like to know how everyone's research and vaccination has gone. I would also like to answer a question I saw-

The minimum age for vaccination is 3 weeks. The vaccine comes in both live and killed version.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I did some research on the coryza vaccines a month or so ago. I asked Peter Brown if it would create a carrier state, and he said NO. It is not a live virus, so it cannot do so.


THere are a number of different formulations of coryza vaccine, and they would not all be equally efficatious for the particular strains available in your area. There are also two different means of making the vaccine into a product that can be injected--one method is easier on the birds but not as effective. (I think I wrote that correctly.) THere is a cost difference between these two. This is an attenuated vaccine, which are the most expensive to reproduce, thus the cost.

I *think* but didn;t get that far in my research, or else it didn't stay in my mind, that this is not a type of vaccine that must be mixed--it already comes ready to inject--so it may be that it can be stored.

I came up with enough information overload, that I didn't continue looking into it.

 

[chickenzoo]

I have bought and use the Corzoa Vaccine from Jeffers $34- 1000 doses. I use a clean needle to take it from the bottle and use a different needle to vaccinate. It keeps in the Fridge til expiration date. I vaccinate all birds, especially new ones as soon as they come on the property. It seems to work pretty well, but I have had a few that I gave the vaccine to that got sick from it. It was only a few, but it is possible. Youngest is 3 months from what I've read, that you can give it too. I re- vaccinate yearly.

 

[Lynn57]

http://www.umaine.edu/livestock/Publications/AIC.htm


More good info!

 

[guinealady]

I too have been wanting to vaccinate but been nervous about it but sure wouldlike to hear from more breeders that have and what they think after the fact

 

[summerrain9732]

I just vaccinated 21 chickens as young as 5 Weeks old and only 2 are showing nasal discharge, is that a bad sign? I also read that if they are carriers that they will usually die within 2 months on their own.