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lillie02
Joined: 18 May 2008
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Location: Wales
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 Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 8:26 am Post subject: Mycoplasma carriers |
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How can you tell if one if your birds is a carrier of Mycoplasma?  |
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Henwife
Joined: 31 Jan 2006
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Location: Monmouthshire
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| Can you? Question for a vet that one I thnk. |
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sunnyside
Joined: 06 Oct 2005
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Location: Birmingham
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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think you can have them blood tested for it.
bit pointless as far as I can gather though as according to Victoria Roberts 'diseases of free range poultry' it is more or less endemic if your birds live outside. to maintain an utterly 'clean' flock you need eggs from guarentteed clean birds who have had no exposure to it then you need to raise the chicks away from all possibility of contamination-ie all other bird life. best to breed for resistence I think. |
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Magpie
Joined: 28 Aug 2007
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Location: Norfolk
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Yes, my vet did some since they had a bird in for a check over anyway. Blood tests, different test for each serotype of myco.
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