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Thank you for this volley of information. I treated my fowl pox-silkie with just iodine. It was actually betadine, which is iodine but either more or less concentrated. I even did the inside of her mouth. the poor thing hated the taste but it didn't have any ill effect on her organs etc. She is completely cured. I kept her isolated from others for a month and put her back in with them after that. They have not come down with pox.
The problem I have now is that NONE of my chickens are laying at all. It is spring here in GA, 70 degrees, and at this time of year they are laying their heads off. What could be wrong? One of my chickens is 4 month old, another a year old, the others are three years old. Some may be too old to lay but what about the others? There is a rooster in there too. Of course I assume he isn't causing any problem. They hens are active, bright, healthy , all eating and running around. I feed 1 quart of feed for five birds every day plus oyster shell. Any suggestions? Thanks!
This link has all of the pictures in this thread:so glad eggcessive gave me the link to this thread, we currently have an outbreak of 'pox' (not sure if its wet or dry? what is the difference?) i'll get some photos up later. so far we have 9 hens in quarantine, 2 dead and theres 79 more chickens in the field (as well as 12 geese, 30 ducks and 7 turkeys) that i'm really hoping dont get infected!
as soon as i see a 'suspected' infected bird i put it straight in quarantine, but we have millions of mosquitos here (we live on the bank of a river) and an outbreak of red blood lice so i'm really fighting it here!