[poppies]

Hi this morning I found 6 of my birds with their eyes closed gasping for breath, I phoned the vet who told me to bring a couple down. they have sinusitus, and have been put on antibiotics all 200+ of them as it is very contagious,

apparently it can be caught several ways including from wild birds or from the parent bird through the egg,  it cost me £43 for the whole lot which was'nt as bad as  I thought it might be

other signs can be bubbly or crusty eyes, runny nose and sneezing

[nzdunn]

sorry to hear of that, i hope they get better for you, my girls were on antibiotics, i only have 3, how do you manage to dose 200 birds   nickyx

[poppies]

sorry to hear of that, i hope they get better for you, my girls were on antibiotics, i only have 3, how do you manage to dose 200 birds   nickyx

luckily in their water,  I had visions of having to do them all seperately

[Hensington]

Sounds like Mycoplasma to me.
See it all the time, closing my flock off now because it seems almost imposible to find birds that don't have Coryza or Myco.

See so many birds with it as auctions:(
Also people buying commercial layers don;t realise that some are immunised with a LIVE virus so whilst they won't get ill themselves they will carry the virus and can infect non immunised birds.

[iwantanallotment]

Sounds like myco to me too, but didn't like to say being new to disease & no expert.

Very interesting point Hensington, I didn't know that re live vaccines.
(but I know very little about poultry disease as never had sick hens before - problems were rare when I kept hens in the past apart from the odd egg-bound girl - but diseases now seem rife?!)

Do you know the name of the live vacc?

My first lot were given MG 6/85 spray for myco G - one of them has always sneezed, but no other symptoms and is fine. She's late colouring up & laying, though. I've often wondered re all her sneezing.
I'm particularly interested as I lost 2 (unvaccinated) youngsters to myco recently, and the 3rd is fine but sneezes - a carrier maybe.

Any further info plz, Hensington? Would be very interested.

[Foxy]

The vaccine is produced by Intervet (Schering -Plough) a large pharma company, I think its the preferred vaccine at the mo.

[nzdunn]

i was wondering how long does it take birds to get over the sneezes.   My three were on a five day baytril course, there symptoms were not serious just a bit of a runny nostril and odd sneezing but thought better to be safe than sorry.   They never went of laying, combs have always stayed bright red and there appeitites never went either, they finished there baytril 11 days ago and one is still doing the odd sneeze but nostrils remain clear, any thoughts.  nickyx

[matilda duck]

Asaunders I'm just playing catch up!   You put a post on yesterday saying you wanted to introduce new stock in and around the Staffordshire area!  I pm'd you to tell you a great place!
Would it not be better to sort this stock out first and sort out problems BEFORE introducing NEW stock?
I now feel guilty as more birds could get infected!