- Mar 22, 2014
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Clarification To dawg53:
My previous cases of fowl pox in chicks were in the past, not the current situation.
I really don't know if the fowl pox in our area is the dry or wet type. The commercial hatchery on island informed me that their vaccination is not 100% effective and that chicks do not develop immunity from the vaccination for a period of time. The worst outbreak I ever had was of hatchery vaccinated chicks in a screened cage. My vaccinations of chicks hatched on my premises seem to be equally as effective as the hatchery vaccinations.
With regard to the excessive time to dose chicks; with a crop feeder I can do it very quickly and with this therapy, intensive care does not have to be given to each chick for many days. Obviously, I would rather keep the chicks healthy in the first place, which might suggest that supplementing vitamin C could help.. I don't know, but I might try it. One could play with dosages to get the cost per chick down.
The question as to why Vitamin C is not sold as a cure for fowl pox in chickens, is not one I can answer. In his book, Curing the Incurable, Dr. Thomas Levy tries to explain how the medical profession seems to resist dramatically effective new therapeutics which don't involve big profits for drug companies.
After reading Dr. Levy's book I thought it would be interesting to test if a viral chicken disease would respond to Vitamin C. It did, and I thought it was worth it. I'm just trying to contribute to a positive dialog that might help someone. People would have to decide for themselves if it worked for them and their birds and was worth it.
Hey, I could be wrong but I found it pretty hard to be unimpressed that the pox lesions which formed over the test chick's eyes fell off within 3 days leaving only minor clean wounds which healed in just a few days.
My previous cases of fowl pox in chicks were in the past, not the current situation.
I really don't know if the fowl pox in our area is the dry or wet type. The commercial hatchery on island informed me that their vaccination is not 100% effective and that chicks do not develop immunity from the vaccination for a period of time. The worst outbreak I ever had was of hatchery vaccinated chicks in a screened cage. My vaccinations of chicks hatched on my premises seem to be equally as effective as the hatchery vaccinations.
With regard to the excessive time to dose chicks; with a crop feeder I can do it very quickly and with this therapy, intensive care does not have to be given to each chick for many days. Obviously, I would rather keep the chicks healthy in the first place, which might suggest that supplementing vitamin C could help.. I don't know, but I might try it. One could play with dosages to get the cost per chick down.
The question as to why Vitamin C is not sold as a cure for fowl pox in chickens, is not one I can answer. In his book, Curing the Incurable, Dr. Thomas Levy tries to explain how the medical profession seems to resist dramatically effective new therapeutics which don't involve big profits for drug companies.
After reading Dr. Levy's book I thought it would be interesting to test if a viral chicken disease would respond to Vitamin C. It did, and I thought it was worth it. I'm just trying to contribute to a positive dialog that might help someone. People would have to decide for themselves if it worked for them and their birds and was worth it.
Hey, I could be wrong but I found it pretty hard to be unimpressed that the pox lesions which formed over the test chick's eyes fell off within 3 days leaving only minor clean wounds which healed in just a few days.
