Well More Bad News!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pips&peeps]

Where did you get the bird with pullorum? It usually spreads from hen to chick through the egg, but it can spread laterally.

The person or hatchery that sold you the bird needs to be identified to your Department of Agriculture so that all of their birds can be tested and culled if need be.

 

[EweSheep]

No fun hearing about one getting pullorum in their flock. Whomever you got the birds from would need to be reported.

 

[PurpleChicken]

I wish I had some easy answers for you on this but I don't.

I agree with AHappyChick completely on Pullorum. It's too infectious
and the positive birds need to be culled quickly. In CT if birds come
up positive the state will come out and euthanize. I don't believe it's optional.

As for MG & MS, yes you can work it our of your flock by culling and repeat testing. I've revisited my decisions a few times but do not regret my 100% cull. The MG will pop up again during the molts and I've seen what it does to a molting bird and it's not a nice thing.

The blood draw on the Bantams may be hard but they'll make it. My quail
made it through the test ok. Just load them with vitamins and electrolytes
after they take the sample.

There is another side to this. How many people have MG infected flocks,
don't know it, and just let the birds live their lives without worry?
There are a lot like this. There comes a point when, for your own sanity,
you just have to accept the fact that they are chickens and on the bottom
of the food and disease chains.

 

[Sunny the Hippie Chick]

Even if you keep your flock closed. Your friends that have birds. Chicken or exotic. Can still get diseases off of your clothes or if they visit your property. They can take it home to their birds. Or go to some one elses house that has birds.. Or if you go to pick up feed, it can be transfered to another poultry keeper. Even though Ive worked hard to get what birds I have.. I would cull if they had a bad disease..

 

[PhlyinPheBee]

Thanks to all of you. It has been very hard from me the last few days. I want to keep my birds and let them live out their lives. I will wait for the next round of pullorum testing in 3 weeks. If all are neg then I will be testing them for the MG. I know that I will lose birds but I am just hoping not all of them. It will be sad.

As far as the breeder I get the pullorum bird from she got the chicks from Ideal, that is what she told me. She raised them to 8 weeks then sold them. My friend has 2 also from the same hatch. She is having testing done on tues. I will post an update then.

Thanks again.

 

[nnbreeder]

When the bird tested pos. was a second test done on the other wing a little later on in the day?

I just noticed your location, if the antigen test was done where they take a drop of blood and mix it with antigen on a plate to test the heat can sometime cause a false positive.

 

[PhlyinPheBee]

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Yes they a second test after all the others were done, other wing and this was at 9 am in the full shade. The lab test confirmed the field test. I know that there can be a false pos but not in this case. I am just hoping that in 3 weeks when this has to be done again that there will be no pos. They all have been living together all this time and she was the only on pos.

Now the MG is a WHOLE different story. I can bet that at least half of the girls will test pos.

I am not looking forward for that day.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Get through the Pullorum thing first.


As for MG, the lab here does two tests, just like nnbreeder mentioned.
The first is a plate test which is very innacurate but shows if MG is in the
flock. If MG is present, most birds will have false positives. The second test
is individual and accurate.

You said you weren't too concerned about having a closed flock so the
MG isn't going to hurt you too much. In the winter and/or molting time
make sure they are given vitamins daily and have and oral or injectable
antibiotin on hand to treat any sick birds.

In your case the MG will only require you to give them some extra care and
love. I don't see you having any problems with that.

Don

 

[Beau coop]

Pullorum -looked that up.

But MS and MG? What are these?

 

[PurpleChicken]

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