Posts by dawg53

Keep in mind that both cocci and canker are protozoas. I dont know if they look the same under a microscope. Are there any respiratory symptoms? Facial swelling can occur with coryza, MG....but there are other symptoms.

It sounds like she wasnt a healthy chick to begin with. It was probably best that she passed. Sorry for your loss.

Chicken saddles are your best bet, or get rid of your rooster.

Quote: Originally Posted by seminolewind  I have a flock of 12 Polish.  All doing fine together for about a year now in a very large pen.  Now I have one who is being picked on by another hen, and to...

Duramycin is recommended for respiratory diseases, it would be best to give her penicillin G procaine injections. Here's a link, post #2 and scroll...

More meat for breakfast!    

Quote: Originally Posted by goldeneggtees  Hi, just wanted to say Large Marge is doing well now! No more heavy breathing and purple comb. As soon as she started laying eggs again, her condition improved tremendously....

Quote: Originally Posted by Ilona  Eyes are not swallen. As for canker in chickens, it is caused by trichomonas which is a protozoan that is only contagious by direct contact with saliva. It dies fast outside of wet...

I dont know what kind of worm it is. It is NOT a worm that a chicken gets internally. Besides, since you stated that it was moving, internal parasites CANNOT survive outside their host.

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