My chick has swollen eyes after giving her corid!!

Stephanie75

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Aug 14, 2015
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I'm new to the who chicken world. One of the 5 died. Everyone said cocci so I treated it and it went downhill fast. Then another started with a little blood in her poop so I started corid on her. 3 days in I noticed her eyes were starting to swell in the fronts. It really looks like she is looking backwards. Is it the corid? Or something else? I will try to get a photo to load.
 
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Corid isn't known to cause swelling around the eyes. Respiratory disease can start that way with sinus infection. Did your chicks come from another farm where they have poultry, or did you hatch them? I would watch for a runny nose or eye drainage, and sneezing or coughing that can be other symtoms of respiratory diseases such as MG and coryza. Here is a good link to read about diseases: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044
 
Yes, I got them from a girl that breeds them. They were between 4-8weeks. I have the hatch dates of each. The first one died within 3 days of getting them (5 weeks old). I have one that has a spot by his comb above his eye that looks like a crusty bump, then she started looking like this. I did get some tetracycline from the store along with the corid. She is running around, eating and drinking just fine. She does have slimy poop now. No blood in it anymore. It's brownish, white, and a little like slimy liquid. I didn't go out to the girls farm. She brought them into town. I got them off an auction site in my state on Facebook. She said she hatches 40-60 chicks weekly. Offered to give me more. I just don't want more if these will make them sick in the long run.
 
She started sneezing today and stretches her neck out looking like she is trying to swallow. Nothing is telling me what to give her!
 
You can treat with Tylan 50 injectable 1/2 ml orally to each chicken (get a syringe and needles to remove it from the bottle) for 5 days. Oxytetracycline, Duramycin, and Gallimycin are some antibiotics that can be put directly into the water if they are drinking well enough. But since these chickens are probably sick with MG or another chronic respiratory disease, it would be in your best interest to take them back. They may always be sickly or be poor layers. Sometimes they can have more than one disease at a time. Here is some reading about MG, and you have the link above to read about other diseases:
http://umaine.edu/livestock/poultry/mycoplasma-gallisepticum-faq/
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps034
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/disea...tion-mg-chronic-respiratory-disease-chickens/
 
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I've read all of them. None of her birds are sick. Same with the others that picked up their birds before me. I asked them myself. I have been in constant contact with the girl. She is helping me figure it out. It has to be something I am doing. I've never had chickens before. I was closing them in a box at night, and taking them to their coop in the day. I got the coop used and didn't wash it with bleach. I just used straight water. I'm not blaming anyone. I just want my chickies to get better. She has even offered to provide the shot and show me how to do it.
 

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