Mycoplasma - Q?

Quote from: GrannieAnnie on September 02, 2009, 22:45

Quote from: croad langshan on September 02, 2009, 10:04

Quote from: Aunt Sally on September 02, 2009, 08:33

We understand that completely Debbie 

If you transfere the thought to humans then vaccination and any intervention by the medical profession which means people live on to reproduce children are also responsible for weakening of the human gene pool and working against natural selection.

Both Worzel and I and many of our living friends and relatives would have died  before passing on their dodgey genes to offspring. 

I don't think many would say medical science is a bad thing though

  Most of the vaccines you can get are actually very cheap, i get the infectious brochitus vaccine for £1.00 the Newcastle disease for £2.00 and Mareks for £10.00, its the mycoplasma ones that are expensive and the cocciodosis. But i hatch around 500 chicks a month so i do it for the wellfare of the babes! 

Croad, where do you get those vaccines so cheap?  I got similar ones last year for one of my Babcock flocks and they cost me over £30

  Hi, i go to a wholesaler, i get a prescription from my vet which i can use up to four times and i go direct to the drugs company basically. Speak to your vet and see what they say.!

I agree to a certain extent but there is very little defra can do about it, its transmitted by wild birds in most cases and as i have said before there are two types of it, only one vaccine licenced for one type of mycoplasma in the UK and there are two types, I think culling is a good idea but if not possible then treat when sick. It has been around for a very long time but because we are seeing so many people keeping chickens then im afraid there will be more outbreaks of one type or another. The one eyed cold is what it used to be called fifty years ago.   Its nothing new and will always be around.  i had to cull 120 rare breed poultry last year to get rid of it, disinfected the ground and hen houses and reploughed and reseaded again. re stocked 1 month afterwards and it was back within a month, i now vaccinate and have to import one of the vaccines to deal with it. the vaccine does not last for ever though!!!! But touch wood i have not had much of a problem since. I have to keep all the stock on antibiotics all the time to be one hundred % sure. Paranoid me??? ???just slightly!   

Had myco once, culled the lot, only way really.
Went to an auction the other week and counted 30 birds showing myco symptoms...nice present to take back home with you.
Defra needs to take this more seriously, it;s a problem that is getting bigger and bigger.