DUCKWING 302 Posted August 30, 2008 Report Share Posted August 30, 2008 WELL FELLAS , I VE BEEN TALKING TO QUITE A FEW FRIENDS THAT ARE KEEPERS UP AND DOWN THE COUNTRY ........... ALL ARE QUITE WORRIED ABOUT THE ILLNESS ......... Avian mycoplasmosis HAS ANYONE HAD ANY PROBLEMS ..... ALL THE BEST DUCKWING Quote Link to post
sidebyside 0 Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 (edited) We had quite a bad out break in this area a few years ago, many of the game farmers who were buying hens had really bad problems, it was only the farms with closed flocks that managed to keep their birds free, hence most shoots here moved to the closed flock system. (Disease can be tranfered from hens to their eggs) It took a few years but we are mostly free from problem now. The closed flock poults were slightly more expencive but the survival rates are much better. At the diseases hieght, beating dogs were taking more birds than the shooters, a few keepers lost thier jobs because of it. There is a pheasant inoculation available for the Game farmers to give to laying stock. Edited August 31, 2008 by sidebyside Quote Link to post
DUCKWING 302 Posted September 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 CHEERS SBS , IT SEEMS TO BE QUITE WIDE SPREAD ...... AND GETTING WORSE ALL THE BEST DUCKWING Quote Link to post
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