A bye bye wave

Dear All belovd friends,

It has been a good experience to share lots of things in this blog. But since I decide to quit my job, then I cannot call myself a chicken doctor anymore. Therefore, I will close this blog by the end of this month. If you have any question reg. chickens and its health, you can reach me at drh.imelda@gmail.com.

Still, may God bless all chickens all over the world.
May God bless you


Imelda is my real name
Imelda Manullang, DVM

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Sorry I'm not in any mood of posting anything about technical things.
Not in a mood of doing anything right now.
Nobody to blame, nothing to blame, it is all about me.

By the way, I am back to Jakarta again. But right now, i hate this place.
I even hate the way it sound.

Happy Valentine

In the early beginning of a Love Day, I started to feel out of love.
Life is pointless now. And it hurts.

Anyway, it's not about red mites or any parasite of the chicken..

For everybody and every chicken who feels lonely in this Valentine's Day,
I'm with you and I'm sorry

Happy Valentine

Sunday Sunday-Red mites part 2

Sorry for haven't updating anything since I have been sick for a week. Not really a serious illness though, but really annoying, seriously.

I had to admit that I already late for my Influenza vaccination booster. Late around umm..3 months..Hehe. I will never forget those chickens vaccination schedule but I forgot my own vaccination (not a good example) :p

I want to share how to look up for RED MITES today. Red Mites are a nocturnal parasites, they active, suck blood and eat skin epithelial at night, but not impossible for you to see these things at day light. The easiest place to find it, is in the cloacal region (umm, chickin butt :) or other area with no feathers like under the wings. See it very closely, because they are transparent when they are not full of blood (or nearly pink). The more easier you see them there, the more heavier the infestation get.

OK, have a good luck with your chickins. Hm..I think I should put how to eliminate these bugs in the next post? Gotta go travelling again

Red Mites

Actually I don't want to put anything disgusting in here, but those kind of unpleasant things are my job fields.
I just wanted to share what I had several weeks ago.
Some farmers may not notice this parasite infestation on their birds, but this creatures does makes anemic, may result on poor weight gain and even lower egg production. There are some antiparasitic to eliminate these small little things. But the application has always been the main problem.
If you want to see if your chicken has been infected by Red Mites, open the wing or just around the cloacal area, you could see them there pretty easy ( Not so easy though, maybe some help of magnifier) and red mite is a nocturnal parasite.

Here is an example of heavy infestation of red mites.
Warning : This may look unpleasant

Mission Nearly Impossible-2

Should I say, Mission Impossible now?

The mortality of the birds is reaching 8000 now.
Eventhough it is decreasing by today, but still it is a record number for an outbreak.
Almost 25% from the population.
I still have another choice to do, well, it succeded to stop the mortality couple times in my experience. But gotta set the right timing, if not, it'll kill the entire population :(

I think it was just a matter of luck, and this time, it is not my luck.
I should've been here earlier.
Why can't we be present in many places at the same time?

Mission Nearly Impossible

Today,

I had a case, it is started with Gumboro actually, but now since the gumboro is immunosupression disease, no wonder NewCastle is showing some clinical signs as well. It makes this even more difficult to manage. I will see how it developing within three days. There are not much I can do :( Makes me sad