when/how to isolate for suspected cocci?

[SeaChick]

My chicks got it and it didn't show until 8 weeks old. They are our second chicks, there were never chickens on this land before.

Our vet said it could have come from the hatchery on the chicks, and just not flared up because all was clean/dry until we had some water spills the week before the "outbreak". I suspect it came in on the "rescue" chick we got from the local feed store at about 3 weeks old.

 

[greyfields]

I'm more of the opinion that it's everywhere. After reading a lot of books on organic growing, I truly believed that if you simply kept your chickens dry, rotated pasture frequently and kept them off their own droppings, you would have no problems. I mean, lots of books say that's how to prevent cocci. I was rather distraught when I started getting it and losing birds.

I told this to my large animal vet and she just laughed at me. I was just another naive noobie farmer.

So, I told my extension agent thta I felt bad and my vet had laughed at me. That made him chuckle. He explained that most of those books are written by people in different climates to us (very cold winters, very hot summers). Of course their management prevents cocci, because they simply don't have it in the soil to begin with.

So, there is a lot of self-fulfilling prophecy out there for people who claim to have no issues with cocci.

 

[Pine Grove]

It only takes the oocysts 36 hours to sporulate, Once sporulated they are infective..Good luck with breeding for immunity..Immunity is only gained by exposure and recovery, This immunity is not passed on

 

[greyfields]

You are correct in that the immunity is not passed on. However, animals which are resistant to cocci (i.e. are exposed and do not suffer) will pass on their naturally immunity to their offspring. Altough it's not passed along like antibodies are from other to child in other animals, breeding from stock naturally resistant to it certainly is achievable and is really teh only sustainable solution.

 

[blue90292]

we have very hot summers but because it's so humid hot, it doesn't help with the cocci problem at all. we haven't had much rain lately but last year, it just kept raining and raining and cocci ran rampant around my pens. if the cocci wasn't killing them, it seemed the pox would take care of the rest. learned a hard lesson last summer, that's for sure.

they say, you can use vinegar when you've had it in a pen. i can't really remember off hand, but you can buy it at like lowes. it's 25% or something like that. use a sprayer like for using roundup. the strong vinegar helps disinfect the pen.