Thursday, September 13, 2007
Ulcerated Enteritis When Raising Quail.
Quail disease, Ulcerated or Ulcerative Enteritis affects Bobwhite, California, Mountain and Gambel’s quail, Sharptail and Ruffed grouse, Chukar and European partridge, Wild turkey, and of course domestic poultry. If you are in the game bird business (or hobby) you have either a chronic, periodic, or infrequent outbreak, or a consistent fear of Enteritis. This one disease of quail nearly makes a preventative level of antibiotic in feed a necessity. News articles about antibiotic bans in livestock heap an additional layer of stress on the al-ready stressed bird grower.
Take heart! Your tax money is working for the game bird industry (and Hobbyists) at the Agricultural Research Service Laboratory in College Station, Texas. A valiant effort at decreasing food borne illness will give the game bird industry a much needed product. Expensive antibiotics will be replaced with a reasonably priced, chemically non-controversial alternative that probably works better. All we have to do is wait for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve it for use.
Chlorate is so inexpensive that it is used to bleach paper during manufacture. Chlorate is the control for Enteritis long sought. This is how it works. Disease organisms that grow without oxygen cause terrible disease problems. Most intestinal bacteria that do not cause problems but maintain good intestinal health need oxygen to thrive. During periods of disease the bacteria in the intestines become imbalanced with the bad bacteria overwhelming good bacteria. Clostridium colinum is the disease agent of Enteritis. Clostridia can thrive in conditions without oxygen. They can be anaerobic. When these bacteria grow without oxygen they use other chemical to get their oxygen. They usually use nitrogen compounds to do this, but if chlorate is available they will convert chlorate to chlorite. Here is the best part; chlorite is poisonous to these bad bacteria – so they make their own poison and die. The good bacteria only use oxygen so they are not killed, maintaining a healthy balance in the intestines. Good-by Enteritis!
Now you may ask, “How expensive this stuff will be?” It is much cheaper than antibiotics. Also, the chlorate method was developed to prevent Salmonella poisoning in food. So it is very likely to be approved by the FDA. In this case more than one problem is solved, research is good. You never know what will be discovered!
(The above article is from: Wildlife Harvest, Vol. 37 NO. 6, June 2006 and was written by Lee Cartwright.)
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To find out more about Raising Quail visit:
How to Raise Quail.com
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Take heart! Your tax money is working for the game bird industry (and Hobbyists) at the Agricultural Research Service Laboratory in College Station, Texas. A valiant effort at decreasing food borne illness will give the game bird industry a much needed product. Expensive antibiotics will be replaced with a reasonably priced, chemically non-controversial alternative that probably works better. All we have to do is wait for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve it for use.
Chlorate is so inexpensive that it is used to bleach paper during manufacture. Chlorate is the control for Enteritis long sought. This is how it works. Disease organisms that grow without oxygen cause terrible disease problems. Most intestinal bacteria that do not cause problems but maintain good intestinal health need oxygen to thrive. During periods of disease the bacteria in the intestines become imbalanced with the bad bacteria overwhelming good bacteria. Clostridium colinum is the disease agent of Enteritis. Clostridia can thrive in conditions without oxygen. They can be anaerobic. When these bacteria grow without oxygen they use other chemical to get their oxygen. They usually use nitrogen compounds to do this, but if chlorate is available they will convert chlorate to chlorite. Here is the best part; chlorite is poisonous to these bad bacteria – so they make their own poison and die. The good bacteria only use oxygen so they are not killed, maintaining a healthy balance in the intestines. Good-by Enteritis!
Now you may ask, “How expensive this stuff will be?” It is much cheaper than antibiotics. Also, the chlorate method was developed to prevent Salmonella poisoning in food. So it is very likely to be approved by the FDA. In this case more than one problem is solved, research is good. You never know what will be discovered!
(The above article is from: Wildlife Harvest, Vol. 37 NO. 6, June 2006 and was written by Lee Cartwright.)
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To find out more about Raising Quail visit:
How to Raise Quail.com
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# posted by Gary Ortlieb @ 5:05 PM 
