Recent content by NestingMillenial

Agreed. I already made my case above but, to sum up, if going for a kill cone method, just decapitate - the severing of the spinal cord renders the bird unconscious in seconds, while bleeding out will take 3-4 minutes of pain before reaching unconsciousness, for a chicken.

I actually asked them and the poultry lab of my State's vet lab is closed for the long weekend (they just processed the swab test I sent them in time, but the necropsy wouldn't have made it un time). If we are not able to get the other symptomatic pullet through and she also dies, we will send...

I think that's where we're headed. The vet from the state lab said that he wouldn't expect frequent relapses. He also told me that MG strains from poultry are mostly different than those found in wild birds, and while some crossing over does happen, it is not overly frequent and is usually...

Omg, one is just cold and stiff dead in the coop this morning. She was the wheezing and sneezing one, and the one that tested positive out of the 2 samples I sent. She was lively and eating well and even laying up till yesterday, I did not see that coming! I thought I'd see signs that they...

Ok... so I guess now I just need to make a decision, culling or treating, hoping they survive the simultaneous sicknesses with some help and antibiotics. I feel exhausted, what a mess. My family had chickens for decades, just free ranging in the country side, without problems other than the...

This place had 100% outstanding reviews, nothing below 5 stars on Google, praise here on BYC dating just from last May... I don't know, they seemed legit. That's why I kept thinking maybe it's my place because how am I the only one having an outbreak after a move? It's been confusing, to dsay...

I tried to check that again when I was swabbing her and honestly her mouth just smelled like she was an animal to me. I mean stronger, you know, but that's it. Would canker be real awful, makes-you-jerk-back-or-gag kinda thing? If yes then it wasn't like that. What are the dosages for oral...

So the test results came back today - I sent samples from two pullets and one came back positive for MG. I am assuming that if one is testing positive, them really all are. What do I do now? I am talking with the state vet tomorrow morning but I would appreciate your opinions: 1) do I treat...

Me again - tests came back positive and I would be very interested in hearing whether, once the flock recover, to expect relapses often (like every month or so) or less so. My other questions have been answered but I would really like to have an idea of what to expect, were I to keep the flock...

What about one from the concurrence, like the Nest from Google? (I don't think they keep full 24H of recording - they have a notification system + record a certain amount of hours for those detected events... I believe! I don't have one, so wait for first hand experience maybe :)

Ok, so I'm sending in my swab tests today and the vet I talked to was of the opinion that even if it's positive, as long as the symptoms recede, I might as well just keep my flock because depopulating and getting new chickens later would probably just make me go through the same thing all over...

I'm going to piggy back on this thread if that's ok because I am in the exact same situation (small backyard flock of 6 that is very likely to have MG - pending tests to be done in the upcoming week)... should the tests be positive, I have a couple questions: 1) how often do carrier birds...

I was checking the references for tests to ask for tomorrow, when calling the state vet: I see that they don't have any for the avian type of trichomonas that causes canker in chickens. How long do I have before it could kill my birds? For example, if I treat in function of the tests result and...

Oh and I should say: the only reason I didn't go with day old chicks is that everywhere I looked, they sold them by 10 or so. Ideal Poultry doesn't ship with less than 10-ish chicks for example, etc. Had I known the mess I was heading into, I would have driven there of course, but I had no idea.

I am indeed dealing with a lot and I am totally bewildered by this (and frankly, yes, I'm also discouraged: had I known I would never have gotten pullets at this stage). The henhouse I got them from doesn't have even one single review below 5 stars on Google and their FB page is filled with...