What vaccines can you give adult birds?

[black_cat]

I'm trying to figure this out. Most things say that to prevent disease, you vaccinate the chicks at a day old or at 10 weeks old, but are you still able to vaccinate adult birds? Will it actually harm them? Will the vaccines not work? Please help. I will be getting some adult birds to start out with and want to know what I'm able to safely vaccinate them for, preferably ones that won't stop egg production.

 

[keesmom]

Anything that stops egg production is something that will have to be administered by a vet, and it wouldn't be a simple one time vaccination. It's a hormonal implant.

What exactly do you want to vaccinate for? Why do you want to halt egg production?

 

[black_cat]

Anything that stops egg production is something that will have to be administered by a vet, and it wouldn't be a simple one time vaccination. It's a hormonal implant.

What exactly do you want to vaccinate for? Why do you want to halt egg production?

Whoops.....typed the wrong thing! I meant not stop egg production, I'll fix that now.

 

[keesmom]

That makes more sense!

The most often administered vaccine given is for Marek's disease. It actually doesn't stop the bird from contracting the disease, just prevents tumors from forming as a result of beng infected. Most adults have been exposed alreaady and a vaccine most likely is unnecessary.

A vaccine for coccidiosis is probably the second most common. Again, adult birds will have been exposed for a long time and won't need a vaccinaton.

There are vaccines for other less common poultry diseases such as fowl pox, infectious bronchitis, Newcastle, etc, but it's going to depend on what illness is prevalent in your location.

 

[black_cat]

That makes more sense!

The most often administered vaccine given is for Marek's disease. It actually doesn't stop the bird from contracting the disease, just prevents tumors from forming as a result of beng infected. Most adults have been exposed alreaady and a vaccine most likely is unnecessary.

A vaccine for coccidiosis is probably the second most common. Again, adult birds will have been exposed for a long time and won't need a vaccinaton.

There are vaccines for other less common poultry diseases such as fowl pox, infectious bronchitis, Newcastle, etc, but it's going to depend on what illness is prevalent in your location.

I don't think that anything is really common in my direct area, there are several flocks of birds right near me. I'll take the regular preventions-don't hang out with my friend's birds then go directly to mine, regularly clean feeder and waterer, etc. but am most worried about things that can be spread easily from bird to bird. I've read lots of things that say stuff like 'bird will be carrier for life' but people on here seem to think differently? I'm kinda confused.

 

[keesmom]

Those would be the mycolasmas, synovaie and gallisetpticum. There are no common vaccines to prevent either in backyard flocks.

 

[black_cat]

Those would be the mycolasmas, synovaie and gallisetpticum. There are no common vaccines to prevent either in backyard flocks.

Those are the ones that the bird would be 'carrier for life'? I was worried about fowl pox and marek's and infectious bronchitis because they all said that.