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[Chicken Rustler]

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We use iodine

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Finally uploaded the pics off DS's camera from the show...here are the better pics of my LF Ameraucana girl....

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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SAWEET she looks almost as good as my 2 new AM B's one of which layed a HUGE green egg on the way home..

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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SAWEET she looks almost as good as my 2 new AM B's one of which layed a HUGE green egg on the way home..

Somebody should tell you that Ams lay BLUE eggs.

 

[ChristineR]

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Be careful! Just a bit of advice from someone who's been there: don't let it drag on too long if it's not getting better.

I picked up ringworm on my leg a couple years ago. I didn't know what it was at first and neither did my regular doctor (it didn't look like the typical ring worm shape). Long story short: after a couple punch biopsies the lab was finally able to culture a tinea fungus. After several dermatologist visits, a couple trips to the ER, and a secondary infection of MRSA thrown in, I was put on oral lamisil to knock it out. Topicals were doing nothing (although the Micro-Tek cured it on my dog and horse--I gave it them to them

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I picked it up in August and didn't get rid of it until January. I have a huge scar on my shin where the tissue was eaten away by the fungus and then the bacterial infection didn't help.

I know this isn't a common scenario with ringworm. The doctors were really concerned because it was on my shin where there isn't a lot of flesh between the skin and the bone. I would be careful, too, if it's right over your spine.

 

[Mia_]

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You can do this with your flock, the only real problem I can see is that you wouldn't be able to ever sell or give away any of your flock, because your bird(s) could wipe out a flock that isn't immune. You would need to operate as a close flock.

If you leave the adult birds as they are, and vaccinate the chicks, you will eventually get rid of it. Kind of like what we did in humans with small pox. Then your whole flock will be immune, either as natural immunity (they had it and survived) or as an induced immunity (vaccine). As the carriers age and go away (dinner for you or random predator), you will have a complete flock of immunized, Merek free chickens. Then you can open up your flock again.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Be careful! Just a bit of advice from someone who's been there: don't let it drag on too long if it's not getting better.

I picked up ringworm on my leg a couple years ago. I didn't know what it was at first and neither did my regular doctor (it didn't look like the typical ring worm shape). Long story short: after a couple punch biopsies the lab was finally able to culture a tinea fungus. After several dermatologist visits, a couple trips to the ER, and a secondary infection of MRSA thrown in, I was put on oral lamisil to knock it out. Topicals were doing nothing (although the Micro-Tek cured it on my dog and horse--I gave it them to them

).

I picked it up in August and didn't get rid of it until January. I have a huge scar on my shin where the tissue was eaten away by the fungus and then the bacterial infection didn't help.

I know this isn't a common scenario with ringworm. The doctors were really concerned because it was on my shin where there isn't a lot of flesh between the skin and the bone. I would be careful, too, if it's right over your spine.

I wouldn't be able to take oral Lamasil, either (diabetics have to be very careful of the stuff, and I'm taking medications which are counterindicated), so yeah, I'm being respectful. I knocked the itch, finally, with Tiger Balm and a gauze pad full of Bag Balm stuck over. The thing one cannot do with ring worm is scratch it, the other is let the skin dry and flake: it spreads the infection. That's one reason Vick's and other menthol/ecalyptus sorts of salves work often enough for people to swear by them: they knock the itch and moisturize the skin long enough for the immune system to take care of the Tinea.

What's particularly hilarious is that nothing else here has any indication of skin infections, not livestock or wildlife.

 

[Kaneke]

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Too bad you didn't discover it yesterday. I could have brought down the Blu-kote.

Or I could borrow some from Margo, especially if she needs to come use my washing machine. Paul was here for a couple of hours yesterday looking for parts.

I am sure I have extra antifungal ointments -- late DH, current DH, and DS all have used them, for this that and the other ...

if either of us needs to make a trip Oly/Lacey-wards, could drop some by (but it's not on the schedule yet)

I got ringworm from kittens, years ago, and I think it was treated with blue vitriol ... UGLY, but it worked ... of course this is ancient history now

be very cautious about the tea tree oil; my friends on the rosacea list have been warned that there are some effects on the hormone system from anything other than very brief usage of that; some rosacea is at least partially due to demodex mite overgrowth, and tea tree oil is sort of the last resort when nothing else works

(my ocular rosacea is pretty well under control since I started using zinc-based dandruff shampoo to wash my face (eyes firmly shut) in the shower, every few days)

I'd suggest trying a dandruff shampoo with coal tar in it for that ringworm ... T-gel comes to mind as the brand ... Neutrogena ?? --- I had the best luck getting rid of fungus with something called Super-Tah ointment, however that seems to be available now, only in Canada ... though Tim's Pharmacy in Yelm said they would make it up for me, since they are a compounding pharmacy, not just a pill-dispensing one

 

[justbugged]

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I am delight that Mr Drake is here safe and sound.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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We use iodine

ARGH- I forgot that one, and just bought a brand new bottle of povidone, too. Tonight, probably; I'm following the two-brief-showers-a-day thing and then baby oil to keep the skin from cracking anyway.