roadkill Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reggiegun Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadkill Posted October 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyska Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotslad Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 (edited) 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 Edited October 12, 2016 by scotslad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul223 Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 A regular worming cycle dosing up to the start of your shooting season with regard given to withdrawal period was all you needed to do. Will the birds still take pellets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadkill Posted October 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 No they will only take wheat now, I've not witnessed any other birds sneezing so I'm hoping it was a one off. Next year I will start with the medicated feed then give it a few weeks then I will treat the water also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul223 Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 You can bind wormer to wheat using cooking oil, getting a long enough period between shoot dates whilst considering that you also don't want to under treat is your only problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotslad Posted October 20, 2016 Report Share Posted October 20, 2016 We used to just hand mix the flubevet powder into the feed by hand and just poured the right ammount in for each bucket. But quite easy when ur hand feeding by the bucket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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