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Eggs turning rotten & Babies dying
Eggs turning rotten & Babies dying
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Dark Roll
9 posts
Dec 05, 2006
5:01 PM
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I've had eggs that were ferile turn up rotten after 2 weeks and
babies dying after 3-4 days. This
pair I have been having this problem. The cock is 5 yrs old and the hen is 6 yrs old. Any help would be appreciated.
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motherlodelofts
1031 posts
Dec 05, 2006
5:14 PM
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It's probably Paratyphoid , Sulmit should clean them up.
Scott
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Alohazona
210 posts
Dec 05, 2006
6:12 PM
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Scotts right,
This time of year you need to have some sulmet handy.I would do the 5 day thing with the sulmet,3 days a quality pro-bio like vita kings one.Then I would hit them with a 4 or 5 in 1 combo for 5 days,then 3 days,pro bios.Worms can also be bad this time of year,due to wet droppings.Check out Tony's roller products,I'm sure he can help...Aloha,Todd
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Alohazona
211 posts
Dec 05, 2006
11:09 PM
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Darkroll,
If it is paratyphoid,in the long run,baytril might effect a cure,but were talkin 3 to 4 weeks of medicating with it.I have used both liquid and the tablets and man it can get expensive.If were talkin the whole loft is suspect ,thats a different story.For the buck,sulmet or some of the better combos can keep it at bay.I don't think any medication cures 100%,when it comes to paratyphoid.Of course with these treatments,your getting rid of bad and good bacterias,thats why you shore them up before, in between,after,and periodically with pro-bios.Maybe I'm the only one with this problem,but my past experiences with bird specific vets has been,NON-SPECIFIC,they cant tell you definetly what the problem is, short of a neo cropsy.Better vets who really know what they are doing and what they are looking for are out there,just not around my neck of the woods.Vets choose baytril because it is wide spectrum.But without a confirmed diagnses,everything is a crapshoot,from the medicine to the dosage.
Backing up on all of this,and still trying to contribute to this thread and deliver a bottom line.There is probably a reason or combination of reasons why sicknesses occur,and if something or things don't get changed,your efforts for a cure will only find back in the same situation.Overcrowding,and stress,tolerating rodents,are right up there,etc.,etc.Bring new birds into a comprimised envirement and WATCHOUT!!!Seriously,i don't want to sound like it hit them with everything but the kitchen sink.The simplicity of sulmet,has served me well, in these situations AND looking at my loft program,OVERALL....Aloha,Todd
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MCCORMICKLOFTS
843 posts
Dec 06, 2006
11:22 AM
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Todd, this is a little different situation. Carriers have to be cleaned or eliminated. A carrier is generally always a very healthy looking bird. If it's offspring manage to survive to the kit box (which is rare), they will infect every bird in that box as they grow sick. Sulmet, though a great medicine, won't cure the carrier state. The parents aren't sick, they are carriers. Baytril isn't expensive anymore thanks to the new tablets. The tablets work great, one given daily. Whenever I've found a carrier bird in the past it was either treated with Baytril (which worked about 3/4 of the time to clean the bird up, or the best thing to do is just eliminate the parents all together. Solves a whole of problems.
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