Will I always be contaminated and contagious?

[EggyErin]

I have a hen that I treated for what I think is CRD. I had a rooster that died a couple of days ago with blue wattle and comb. No breathing problems but maybe it was the same thing. Am I always going to be contaminated if all my flock are carriers? Am I contagious to other birds?

 

[dawg53]

I have a hen that I treated for what I think is CRD. I had a rooster that died a couple of days ago with blue wattle and comb. No breathing problems but maybe it was the same thing. Am I always going to be contaminated if all my flock are carriers? Am I contagious to other birds?

Here's 2 links for you explaining what the symptoms are for CRD. Scroll down to Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG.) It will also explain everything you need to know about treatments etc...Good luck.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps034

 

[flowerchild59]

Please read the link on my signature line regarding diseases and worming your flock. I would take a dead or dying one in for necropsy so you know for sure.

I have a hen that I treated for what I think is CRD. I had a rooster that died a couple of days ago with blue wattle and comb. No breathing problems but maybe it was the same thing. Am I always going to be contaminated if all my flock are carriers? Am I contagious to other birds?

 

[luvinrunnin]

Thanks for posting that!

Please read the link on my signature line regarding diseases and worming your flock. I would take a dead or dying one in for necropsy so you know for sure.

 

[EggyErin]

Thanks Prof. Dawg and Flowerchild. Those were extremely helpful. I had planned to deworm in April so I'll move that up a couple of weeks. I'll use valbazen. I deworm twice a year but with the warmer winter I can see where worms would be a problem earlier.