lanber 3 Posted October 10, 2012 Report Share Posted October 10, 2012 Spent the day helping keeper with feeding to day. In one of the pens there was a sick cock pheasant next to a feeder. I picked it up with no struggle from the bird. and straight away notice how thin and prominent the breast bone was. I put it out of its mysery as asked by keeper, and we then found gape worms down wind pipe after we did a postmortam. As you can imagine theres not a many birds now in the pen, but those that are, are now showing signs that they have gapes too and its first shoot day this saturday. So have any of you experinced this so late on, and do you treat them this late on. Quote Link to post
worthy130 21 Posted October 12, 2012 Report Share Posted October 12, 2012 If the birds are still in the pen (as this one was) then they should still be drinking from the drinkers there so all you have to do is worm them. Quote Link to post
worthy130 21 Posted October 12, 2012 Report Share Posted October 12, 2012 As for any of the others that are out on the drives and showing signs of Gapes (caughing, struggling to swallow etc) put out water trays with wormer in them. Quote Link to post
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