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Injured roo or disease symptoms and which?
vanalpaca:
When working with exotic parrots in aviaries and outdoor breeding facilities, we of course covered the tops of all the flights to stop access from wild bird droppings and double wired the runs to keep out MICE.
Cages and pans were first washed/scrubbed down with soap to cleanse off the dirt, then sprayed with wavicide or avisan to kill possible disease. On some disease that we could not kill the pathogens, our vets recommended \'washing away\' the germs and allowing the cages to dry in the sunlight, as sunlight is known to kill a lot of stuff.
I can\'t decontaminate dirt and grass. I can remove and wash the tarp and let the rains and sunshine cleanse the wire. But I\'m not moving them until the disease is finished.
Have a nice Easter weekend all. I was pretty depressed and upset about this yesterday as I have several hundred into the flock and the feed at this point and was hoping to start eating them, instead will be burying them or burning them.....
Once this disease has run it\'s course through the flock, we will see if we have any survivors to see if we can \'breed for immunity\'.
greeneggsandham:
Sorry you are having to deal with this. That\'s got to be tough and depressing to see.
Mealworms, huh? Dang, I just bought my hens some of those freeze dried ones a month ago. I think I\'ll throw the remainder away now.
Christie Rhae:
Oh gosh I am so sorry. That is devastating.
I am going to find out about Mareks here in Hawaii. There is only one vet on my island who deals with chickens..2 hours away but maybe they can advise me.
We have lots of wild birds and I cannot keep the doves out of my pens.
vanalpaca:
Well, when it is dander carried by the wind.....
As for freezedried mealworms, it said that darkling beetles are often found living in coops and they will carry and transmit the disease as well and their larvae are mealworms. It was talking about the insects commonly found in chicken coops and saying that mosquitos, mites and lice are not carriers.
So I am thinking that they are saying that the beetles can carry the disease that is already existing on the property to the birds and from cage to cage, so if they were inside it would be good management practice to eliminate them.
It may be ok or maybe not to feed mealworms raised in bulk. My birds free range, so no control on which insects they ingest. I\'m going to be trying plantings of lemon balm around my chicken areas as studies are showing it useful against herpes virus. And definitely start them on kelp meal as addition to a feeding program.
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