What the heck IS this crud?! EDIT: Canker treatment needed, HEEEELLLP!

[Shadowhills Farm]

I edited my post above with a link....

 

[DominaPullorum]

pips&peeps :

It's highly contagiou and hard to treat. If he is not worth alot of money, I would put him down.

If you want to try to save him, contact Peter Brown at First State.

Who's that?
Is there no way to treat it..?​

 

[Shadowhills Farm]

www.firststatevetsupply.com

 

[speckledhen]

Canker is a fungal disease and as Jean said, highly contagious. It is a carrier disease as well, I've read (though that seemed surprising to me), meaning it will keep popping up in the flock and is never truly gone. I'm not 100% sure, but that does seem to be canker. You'd have to have him tested to be sure.

 

[Shadowhills Farm]

Any updates??

 

[asher]

Fish Zole

We once had a well loved rooster and discovered he had canker. Had no idea what to do and my dad adored him, too (he was my sons roo) so he went to the feed store and asked them. That's what they said. Brought it home, administered it. It did work. Google shows a lot of people do this as well.

It's worth a shot. It's not cheap, but it's not super duper expensive, either.

 

[DominaPullorum]

Ashley,thank you so much for the link. I got him some flagyl..hope it works. He seems to be doing better already.

 

[harryg6167]

The Flagyl will work good but also it should get a dose
of antibiotics. Search for Doxy-T. Works real good
for canker. Canker can be fungal or bacterial
and spreads mainly through the water supply when the
birds drink or can be transmitted through saliva from one bird to
another bird.
It's more common in pigeons than in poultry but can be treated the same way.

 

[bargain]

Please isolate for safety of your flocks and consider culling this one....Thanks.

 

[Shadowhills Farm]

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No problems. Did you check everyone else?