Help with Resperitory Desease?

I am completely new to have backyard chicken. I am having them like 1 months now. From last week onward, some of the chickens are coughing and they have kind of puffy eyes (watery eyes), can here wheezing. I have try to see all the remedies through the internet and here; even given Apple Cider Vinegar (mixed with water); first it seemed working as some chickens not coughing but most of them are. And they not laying eggs as well.

I live in UK; I have try to find the antibiotic; not sure where and which to get them. There are no forum with detail info like this available I could find, this site is very helpful. I hope some one could suggest me any drugs that I could buy in the UK or any other optional home treatment I could do. Please provide me with link if possible. Please help me to save my chicken.

Sounds like they have something like Coryza or MG. Look those up. Nearly all respiratory infections like these in birds are permanent and transmissible unfortunately. Antibiotics won't make them free of the disease, they will remain a carrier of the infection for life. If you want to keep a flock of contagious birds then you'll need to basically quarantine them forever. That's more of a responsibility than most people can deal with. Sadly, culling the flock is the only way to be disease free.

Toddrick said:

Sounds like they have something like Coryza or MG. Look those up. Nearly all respiratory infections like these in birds are permanent and transmissible unfortunately. Antibiotics won't make them free of the disease, they will remain a carrier of the infection for life. If you want to keep a flock of contagious birds then you'll need to basically quarantine them forever. That's more of a responsibility than most people can deal with. Sadly, culling the flock is the only way to be disease free.

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x2. The best thing you can do is cull them now, before you get really attached to any of the birds. I have lived with Marek's Disease in my flock for 3 years and MG and MS for 1 year, because my birds are like my kids, and I would never be able to live with myself killing those fowl which are my pets. The diseases my flock has are all mild strains fortunately but they cause a lot of stress and cost lots of money regardless. Good antibiotics are very expensive, you have to bleach your shoes/change your clothes any time you wear them into the coop, if you have a problem bird you CAN'T rehome it, butcher is the only option... no swaps or shows... any birds brought in can never leave the flock. The only birds that leave my flock do so frozen and dressed in a ziploc bag.

If you do cull, burn the carcasses, bleach everything, leave the coop empty for a few months, and if you feel up to it, buy new birds after that. Always buy from a reputable hatchery, and when you are buying from an untrusted source ("untrusted" means basically anywhere besides a hatchery, e.g. craigslist or livestock auctions) always - ALWAYS follow proper quarantine procedure. If I myself had done so in the the past, my flock would still be 100% disease free.