injection to stop chickens laying

Re: injection to stop chickens laying

Marie Kubiak — Wed, 30 May 2012 14:26:53 GMT

They are placed subcutaneously in the interscapular region on the back. Chickens generally are easy to do conscious and I place a tiny bit of tissue skin on the entry hole. The skin is very thin and you can visualise the implants sitting there after placement.

Marie

Re: injection to stop chickens laying

HMC — Wed, 30 May 2012 14:14:36 GMT

Resurrecting an old post....

How do you implant the suprelorin in chickens, please?

Re: injection to stop chickens laying

tess — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:24:00 GMT

Soft shells seem to occur towards the end of a hen's natural laying life or if there is an underlying disease like infectious bronchitis. Given that egg production is linked to daylight, you could try keeping it in the henhouse for longer ie keep it on winter daylight hours.

If it were mine and the eggs were persistantly soft, I'd call it a day- I like a healthy flock and wouldn't want to risk it being a carrier of something that may affect the rest of the birds.

Re: injection to stop chickens laying

Mark Rowland — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:04:05 GMT

[quote user="Malcolm Ness"]

[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"]5ml pentobarbitone should do the trick![/quote]

Is that the medical response to Short Neck Syndrome?

[/quote] Ha ha I like deslorelin :-) Did you know it works for cocks as well :-)

Re: injection to stop chickens laying

Malcolm Ness — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:24:01 GMT

[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"]5ml pentobarbitone should do the trick![/quote]

Is that the medical response to Short Neck Syndrome?

Re: injection to stop chickens laying

Michael Woodhouse — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:16:49 GMT

5ml pentobarbitone should do the trick!

Re: injection to stop chickens laying

Mark Holmes — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:37:10 GMT

If they have soft shells has he considered a soluble Ca supplement like oyster shell.?

Re: injection to stop chickens laying

Chris Geddes — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:32:38 GMT

Hi Hannah

If your colleague wants some advice on the off-licence use of Suprelorin in chickens they are welcome to speak to one of the Virbac technical team by calling 01359 243 243 and selecting option one.

Best wishes

Chris

Re: injection to stop chickens laying

Marie Kubiak — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:13:56 GMT

Suprelorin implants can be used to shut down normal ovarian function for a 6-8month period, leuprolide acetate injections are an alternative and work faster but are expensive, harder to get hold of and require 3 injections in short succession so are rarely used.

With any mammalian endocrine product I make chicken owners sign a form declaring they will never use the animal for egg/meat.

Marie