Pea Chicks and Chicken Chicks Dying

[Lincs Lass]

A mystery one .
The yard has peacocks and chickens running free range ,,they both hatch of healthy broods of chicks but within a month ,both lots of chicks just go to skin and bone and eventually peg it .

Now we have had trouble with blackhead in the peachicks before but its never affected anything else .
Brought a bird in tonight that has gone downhill so fast it wont last the night out .
they all look very healthy at the start but deteriorate so fast .

Any ideas

 

[IH 684]

Rat poison
mites/lice
Worms

 

[Dry Rot]

Blackhead? Emtryl is banned but drugs for pigeon pox will do the trick as it is in the same spectrum of bugs. But I never said that, did I?

 

[johnflimston]

Red mite really pulls them down. Do you itch after handling them?
Can get mite powder from agricultural merchant, works well.

 

[Lincs Lass]

No itching personaly ,its very odd how its affecting the od few ,they are feeding and drinking well but with in a matter of hours they just go down hill ,doesnt affect the adult birds

 

[Zaphod]

Cocci? Are they standing round looking miserable? I usually dose up the water with Harkers Coxoid every couple weeks when they are young. Wo

 

[Lincs Lass]

Cocci? Are they standing round looking miserable? I usually dose up the water with Harkers Coxoid every couple weeks when they are young. Wo

Ye ,wings down ,feathers all fluffed up ,heads look heavy ,,,That one was dead this morning .
It only seems to be the ones running around the yard ,,they go all over along with the peacocks .
Was told its a parasite the peacocks carry and can pass it on to other fowl like turkeys,chucks,quail ,,doesnt affect geese

 

[Dry Rot]

I used to breed American Bob White Quail for dog training and it was always Blackhead that caused the trouble, synptoms as you describe. Frounce is a similar disease of birds of prey. Roup in poultry. Canker in pigeons. I have seen all three over the years.

Note the following article specifically mentions pea fowl. It wouldn't take much to get some stuff for pigeon canker from your vet or online and dose a few ailing birds. The cure can be quite dramatic -- if that's what it is. Spartrix and Flagyl are two trade names I seem to remember and I think they wioll be available on line.

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/1285/control-of-blackhead-disease/

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...oV5rrBtDv8AeZxqzYBQ#q=pigeon+canker+flagyl+uk

 

[Zaphod]

Yes they can pick it up easily if running free esp off the adults. Wont hurt to dose I suppose.

 

[Castle Farm]

Cocci by the sound of it. Get some Linco Spectrim in the water..Good for spraying sheep's feet as well

 

[Dry Rot]

Yes they can pick it up easily if running free esp off the adults. Wont hurt to dose I suppose.

The "carrier" or intermediate host of the blackhead bug is apparently the earth worm. A game farmer told me earth worms could be killed off with Carbate (?). I didn't try it, but just passing on the information for what it is worth.

Aren't the symptoms of cocci yellow droppings, sometimes containing blood? Never had a problem here, so don't know.

 

[Lincs Lass]

The "carrier" or intermediate host of the blackhead bug is apparently the earth worm. A game farmer told me earth worms could be killed off with Carbate (?). I didn't try it, but just passing on the information for what it is worth.

Aren't the symptoms of cocci yellow droppings, sometimes containing blood? Never had a problem here, so don't know.

The droppings are extremely smelly ,more than normal and runny

 

[Chasingmytail]

If they have canker you can see by looking in their mouths whether there is fungal growth and breath usually bad too.

 

[Pasty]

Sounds like cocci if it's the young ones. Hunched up, eyes half shut. You can use medicated feed but obviously need to keep away from birds for eating etc.