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    my chicken are sick n i dont know what it is

    Once their symptoms are gone, and they are laying again the eggs should be safe to eat. You may or may not want to eat the meat after treating with antibiotics. I'm sure you will get different answers from different people. Most antibiotics are used off label with chickens, so you would want...
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    my chicken are sick n i dont know what it is

    If there is no odor, but the eyes are swollen, it may be MG. Still, you can't know for sure without testing. As long as they are drinking, you can try the oxytetracycline or Tylan Powder in their water. Most feed stores carry those. Just remember that you need to close your flock to any new...
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    my chicken are sick n i dont know what it is

    I think if you picked up the chicken you would notice the odor of coryza--someone just posted that that it smells like dead roadkill, but I haven't seen it before. You may be dealing with MG, but testing would be the only way to find out. If you cull and send one in for a necropsy, you could...
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    my chicken are sick n i dont know what it is

    Welcome to BYC. I agree that more information is needed, but the one chicken whose swolleneyes are shown looks to have a respiratory disease, possibly MG or coryza. Do they have rattles when breathing, coughing, nasal drainage, or foam/bubbles in the eyes? Do they smell bad from their heads...
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