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| Frank Thompson... |
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I've had 1-3 birds in my flock of 150 die per day for four weeks.
Does this sound more like a parasite problem
or a contagious disease? If it is a disease, top suspect is
ulcerative enteritis. Was thinking that enteritis would devastate
entire flock in a much shorter period of time.
Have had bacitracin in water. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:40 pm |
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Frank Thompson <gno52 at (no spam) windstream.net> wrote:
[quote:df174d8e36]I've had 1-3 birds in my flock of 150 die per day for four weeks.
Does this sound more like a parasite problem
or a contagious disease?
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This sounds like it would justify having a vet do a post-mortem on at
least one of them.
$0.02,
Andy Valencia
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| Jill... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:30 am |
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Frank Thompson wrote:
[quote:5be2515ae6]I've had 1-3 birds in my flock of 150 die per day for four weeks.
Does this sound more like a parasite problem
or a contagious disease? If it is a disease, top suspect is
ulcerative enteritis. Was thinking that enteritis would devastate
entire flock in a much shorter period of time.
Have had bacitracin in water.
[/quote:5be2515ae6]
Don't guess
Get a post mortem / necropsy.
Its important enough in domestic flocks but rarely done.
The bigger the flock, the more important you find out EXACTLY whats wrong,
not guess for weeks.
Some things can knock down a few birds but hardly show on the rest, you
think you are then over "whatever it is" only to find that its seriously
affected the production, fertility or long term health of your birds, but
you don't get that until you have invested considerable amounts of time and
money into them which is then lost.
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regards
Jill Bowis
Domestic Poultry and Waterfowl Solutions
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine Nursery
Seasonal Farm Food
http://www.kintaline.co.uk |
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| Christina Websell... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:06 pm |
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"Frank Thompson" <gno52 at (no spam) windstream.net> wrote in message
news:290e894c-92ae-4809-be87-8951451c4d27 at (no spam) d23g2000vbm.googlegroups.com...
[quote:d84268ce08]I've had 1-3 birds in my flock of 150 die per day for four weeks.
Does this sound more like a parasite problem
or a contagious disease? If it is a disease, top suspect is
ulcerative enteritis. Was thinking that enteritis would devastate
entire flock in a much shorter period of time.
Have had bacitracin in water.
[/quote:d84268ce08]
You need to have them post-mortemed by a vet to see what's going on. I have
not experienced a death in my flock except from old age for years.
Tina |
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