[TheForge] OT: please excuse, but I need some help with this

[Grant Marcoux]

Andy:  What you are describing MAY be Psittacosis, or Parrot fever.  This
disease is common in poultry and is spread by via droppings.  It is commonly
treated with tetracycline in both humans and birds.  It is possible that
Ricky relapsed because you MAY have prematurely stopped the treatment, or he
had a reaction to it.

Anyway, treatment of choice for Parrot fever is Tetracycline

I love my animal pals, too.

Grant

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Subject: [TheForge] OT: please excuse, but I need some help with this


Folks,


I am sorry to bother you with this OT subject but I really don't know
where else to turn and there's a lot of knowledge here, so please
forgive me.  Anyone know anything about diseases in chickens?

I have a rooster who stopped eating. This went on for weeks.  He went
from cock of the walk to getting his ass kicked.

I took him in the house and began feeding him a combination of bee
pollen, blue-green algae, Siberian ginseng, angelica root, Echinacea and
about 30mg of amoxycillin/day.  He recovered largely, so I let him out
during the day and gathered him back at night for feeding since he still
wasn't eating a whole lot, which I attributed to his management of the
hens and keep the other roosters in line.

I ran out of amoxycillin and changed to amoxycillin clavulanate  (12.5%
clavulanaic acid).  He then appeared to be heading for relapse.  He is
now in a state alternating from what looks like convulsion to calm.
This started  about a day or two after I began the new antibiotic and
have been wondering if it might have been the cause.  His head turns up
and he cannot sit or stand straight.  It is pathetic, but before I end
his suffering I want to be certain there is no hope for recovery.  It is
clear that he is being stubborn about living, and I take that pretty
seriously even with a chicken.  It is probably stupid, but he's my boy.

I don't want him to suffer, but I will see him through it if he has a
decent chance of recovery.

Anyone know of any good web sources for diagnosis of poultry diseases? I
came up bupkis, save for something called "Newcastle disease", and if
this is what Ricky has (Ricky came with Lucy, I might add) then
basically all my birds are as good as dead because it is highly
contagious and better than 90% fatal and I'm in no mood to be burying 40
birds.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Ricky thanks you in advance.


     -Andy
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