JustAnotherWeirdo
Chirping
- Dec 11, 2023
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I just found out about this vaccine going by the name of “Tatu Moja” but it’s seems way too good to be true. It’s administered as an eyedrops, protects against fowl pox, infectious coryza, newcastle disease and is thermostable! Developed to help rural poultry keepers in Tanzania with no access to refrigeration or a reliable vaccine supplier available. However I can not get hold of any research papers or much proving the efficacy, safety and approval of it to be used in poultry so I have come to you to see if anyone would be able to help me out here! And my knowledge on vaccines doesn’t go much further than how they work on a high school biology level which isn’t that great in understanding wether one is safe or not.
My way of finding out about this is a lady on a local chicken group advertising it and I find it a bit of a red flag how they almost just let random people supply it, but yet again developed to help people in rural areas which may explain it. I’d like to add that I’m from South Africa and not in Tanzania as well but it seems to be available here.
I’ve been looking into vaccines for a while now, my flocks are pretty healthy and I try to have good biosecurity so I don’t really need them but I plan on doing several shows later this year and that’s a huge risk to my chickens’ health and biosecurity since the judges don’t even DQ sick birds most of the time and far too many breeders care about show prizes more than the health of their and other people’s chickens. However vaccines are terrifying!! They can be so finicky and hard to administer properly and even if you do all that correctly I’ve heard of so many cases where chicks just die within minutes after vaccination
I do not feel comfortable with administering a vaccine through injection either since I feel it’s so easy to do incorrectly and I have no experience with it yet and I’m unsure wether my vet would be willing to help either, so an eyedrop administered vaccine would be amazing!!
I haven’t fully decided on what to vaccinate against either but coryza have affected me before and the risk of my chickens getting coryza at a show is incredibly high. And while not much of a risk at the show my chicks get fowl pox each year, very few die and I’m not certain wether I’d like to start vaccinating against it or not but I know it’s not fun seeing my chickens go through it
My way of finding out about this is a lady on a local chicken group advertising it and I find it a bit of a red flag how they almost just let random people supply it, but yet again developed to help people in rural areas which may explain it. I’d like to add that I’m from South Africa and not in Tanzania as well but it seems to be available here.
I’ve been looking into vaccines for a while now, my flocks are pretty healthy and I try to have good biosecurity so I don’t really need them but I plan on doing several shows later this year and that’s a huge risk to my chickens’ health and biosecurity since the judges don’t even DQ sick birds most of the time and far too many breeders care about show prizes more than the health of their and other people’s chickens. However vaccines are terrifying!! They can be so finicky and hard to administer properly and even if you do all that correctly I’ve heard of so many cases where chicks just die within minutes after vaccination
I do not feel comfortable with administering a vaccine through injection either since I feel it’s so easy to do incorrectly and I have no experience with it yet and I’m unsure wether my vet would be willing to help either, so an eyedrop administered vaccine would be amazing!! I haven’t fully decided on what to vaccinate against either but coryza have affected me before and the risk of my chickens getting coryza at a show is incredibly high. And while not much of a risk at the show my chicks get fowl pox each year, very few die and I’m not certain wether I’d like to start vaccinating against it or not but I know it’s not fun seeing my chickens go through it
