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Quick update, i had gape in all of the pens at the beginning of September and all of the birds were treated and made a great recovery. Now a month later and most of the birds have left the pens and are all around the estate. Today when doing pen feeding rounds i noticed one cock bird in my biggest pen having a sneezing fit, it would sneeze and shake its head and this went on for a good 8 seconds. Is this a sign of gape coming back or do pheasants have the odd sneezing bout with nothing to worry about?

 

If it was gape how would i treat it this time with the birds being everywhere and not using the water i put down as the estate has lakes and ponds all around?

 

Cheers

 

Jamie

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Quick update, i had gape in all of the pens at the beginning of September and all of the birds were treated and made a great recovery. Now a month later and most of the birds have left the pens and are all around the estate. Today when doing pen feeding rounds i noticed one cock bird in my biggest pen having a sneezing fit, it would sneeze and shake its head and this went on for a good 8 seconds. Is this a sign of gape coming back or do pheasants have the odd sneezing bout with nothing to worry about?

 

If it was gape how would i treat it this time with the birds being everywhere and not using the water i put down as the estate has lakes and ponds all around?

 

Cheers

 

Jamie

 

We treat are poults in the pens with flubinvet in the pellets. How old is your pen? I would move it next year. Trouble is now any treatment you give you gonna have to check if they can go in the food train if your already shooting.

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thats the problem there not on pellets now so it rules the med side out, i used that at the beginning when first down and couldn't really treat the water as we have so much. The pens are 8 years old

Cull the coughing birds.

 

You can't use antibiotics now unless you forfeit the birds.

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I wouldn't worry too much,they reckon adult birds and even mature poults will get over gapes naturally, may knock them back a touch thou or kill any weaker ones.

 

U will almost always get gapes at some time so best just to feal with it rather than moving pens, many big estates will have used the same pen sites for decades.

 

U could treat the feed again but obvoiusly a big job with birds all over the place, we used to use fluebevet powder we just mixed by hand with the wheat, everything was on the whistle so just mixing a few buckets for each feed ride wa quite easy. Complete pain if on hoppers and really not a lot u can do.

 

If u do medicate remember any withdrawl periods before shooting/eating, would imagine be getting close to many shoots 1st days

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