Frankly, you may be asking a question which has no answer that will satisfy you. There is nothing that will help a carrier bird become a non-carrier so normal supportive care you'd give any other chicken is all you can do. No matter what you do, it won't change their disease status, in other words. My answer would be pretty much have the same gist as darkmatter's answer--I can't in good conscience tell give advice that goes against all tenants of good animal husbandry, so all I will do is post an excerpt from a good reference below:
From the Merck Veterinary Manual:
From the Merck Veterinary Manual:
Prevention and Treatment:
Immunization of breeder pullets 10-15 wk old with a commercial live vaccine is advised to prevent vertical transmission of the virus to progeny and to provide them with maternal immunity against the disease. Vaccination of table-egg flocks is also advisable to prevent a temporary drop in egg production. Affected chicks and poults are ordinarily destroyed because few recover. A combination vaccine for fowlpox and avian encephalomyelitis for wing-web administration is widely used. The disease does not affect humans or other mammals.
Vertical transmission means they pass the disease to the chicks through the eggs, in case you weren't aware of that term.
All that being said, I have to ask, though, why you are so sure it's AE? So many vitamin deficiencies can have symptoms like that. A good supplement like Avia Charge 2000 would help any deficiency since it's made for birds. You can also take a Vitamin E gelcap, 200-400 IU, and squeeze one into each beak once a day for a couple days and see if that helps the symptoms.
To answer your original question "When can I reintroduce sick chickens?", my only answer, if it is a contagious, carrier type disease is never. It's the only one my conscience would allow me to give you.
Immunization of breeder pullets 10-15 wk old with a commercial live vaccine is advised to prevent vertical transmission of the virus to progeny and to provide them with maternal immunity against the disease. Vaccination of table-egg flocks is also advisable to prevent a temporary drop in egg production. Affected chicks and poults are ordinarily destroyed because few recover. A combination vaccine for fowlpox and avian encephalomyelitis for wing-web administration is widely used. The disease does not affect humans or other mammals.
Vertical transmission means they pass the disease to the chicks through the eggs, in case you weren't aware of that term.
All that being said, I have to ask, though, why you are so sure it's AE? So many vitamin deficiencies can have symptoms like that. A good supplement like Avia Charge 2000 would help any deficiency since it's made for birds. You can also take a Vitamin E gelcap, 200-400 IU, and squeeze one into each beak once a day for a couple days and see if that helps the symptoms.
To answer your original question "When can I reintroduce sick chickens?", my only answer, if it is a contagious, carrier type disease is never. It's the only one my conscience would allow me to give you.
