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Found this on Ont Out of Doors forum .
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Ugh, we need to catch a break. Thanks for the heads up. Glad my guys prefer to stay indoors right now and that the dogs keep the turkeys away.
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Momma to 4 little chicks down on The Farm
Chickens: Standard White Chanteclers, Bantam Rhode Island Reds, Bantam Black Wyandottes.
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Chickens: Standard White Chanteclers, Bantam Rhode Island Reds, Bantam Black Wyandottes.
Rabbits: Black, Broken Black, & Black Otter Rex
Big Critters: Milking Shorthorns (Reg and Grade), Hay burning Horses out back, and one patient man
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windwalkingwolf
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Had a mild run of pox in my chicken flock in the fall. Very mild, and only a handful got it, or at least that was all that got lesions and felt under the weather. Very lucky, and very surprising since it's contagious for quite some time before the spots show up, and the scabs are contagious after they fall off. Not sure why they are wanting to cull infected turkeys, as they've already shared their misery with every other turkey they've come into contact with...??
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Wonder if it was wet or dry pox? I assume dry pox. They should just get over it.
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Yeah, pretty gross. If they can't see or eat, they fall to predators pretty quickly.JP* wrote:QR_BBPOST I had to google Avian Pox. The severe cases look terrible. Poor birds.
I was very lucky in that the pox my flock got was mild--just some facial scabby warts, and only about 5 birds had any symptoms at all. It started in a rooster, who at first I just thought had been fighting--it started off looking like pecked spots but then in a few days got lumpy, and by that time several more had the spots. Apparently they can catch it by pecking at each other's scabs. The worst girl had growths at one corner of her mouth and was pale and miserable. She could eat ok, but acted like her mouth hurt when she tried. A week later, you wouldn't know there was anything wrong with any of them the week before...like I said, they were lucky! When I first figured out it was fowlpox, I mentally prepared myself to cull half my birds and kept expecting the wet form to pop up at any moment. Great news is, most will have developed immunity and will never catch it again.
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