Wet Poof
During Breeding Season, all of the young's droppings are very wet. I mean soupy, sloppy wet. This has happened for the last four years?
During Breeding Season, all of the young's droppings are very wet. I mean soupy, sloppy wet. This has happened for the last four years since I came back to this sport. I never had this problem 30 years ago. I thought there was a ventalation problem, so I added a ventalation system. The system now is addaquate enough that I can not smell the droppings until I start cleaning the nest box. I clean about 4 times a week. One strange thing though, my father and I have the same problem and we purchased are birds from different sources. The onely common thing we have between us is that we vaccinate together. We do clean the needle between birds. Now we vaccinate for PMV and Partyphoid. We do not vaccinate for Paratyphoid twice, I thought that this may be the trouble. I thought that maybe that we are giving them the Paratyphoid by only vaccinating once. My father sent a bird to a University for an autopsy, but he euthanized the bird by gas and it destroyed the findings. We definately know that the young are not reaching their potential. We are Lost, Lost, Lost. Please help! Thanks.
Question by: Jack Hoyle
Answer by: Dr Wim Boddaert
Dear Sir,
The symptoms that you are giving are typically for a bacterial infection in the nest. It could be an E-coli infection or a streptococcus bovis infection. I think if you give them during the period that they are having youngsters in the nest a treatment of 8 days with f.e. products based on amoxicilline ( f.e. Amoxicure of Oropharma ) the problem will be solved. The best way is to start with the treatment when the youngsters are just out of the egg end then during 8 days giving this product. Directly there after you give them for a few days some muti-vitamin supplement . Afterwards it would be better the give some acids in the drinking water to make that the parents are not drinking to much and that they are not giving to much water to their youngsters in the nest.
Of course it would be better if we had the possibility to examinate some of the sick youngsters and to make a diagnosis to be 100 % sure of the problems and to make if necessary a antibiogram to be sure which antibiotic is working.
Best Regards