Sneezing and Wheezing Chicken

You just withdraw it from the vial with a needle and syringe, then squirt it in the beak a drop or two at a time. I suppose it can be given to ducks as well, but you can check with Amiga or some on the duck forum.

Awesome thank you! I'll buy some today. Poor chickens. This Maine winter has been bipolar, wet and warm one week and negative digits the next, it's wrecking havoc on their health

I can't find Tylan 50 in oral form, just the injection form. Can it be used either way even though it say that it is used for injection?

Tylan 50 is injectable--but you can give it orally as well. Tylan 200 is sometimes the only one available, and it will work, but it is 4 times as strong. Just give 1/4 of the dose for 50 if using 200. Those are usually found in the cattle medicines in feed stores.

I got her probiotics, electrolytes, and oxytetracycline and put them in her water. She does not seem to be drinking her water though. She seems to be having a hard time eating and drinking. She only is sneezing when she gets up or starts to move. She is wiping her face a lot on the ground and itching underneath her beak a lot. She seemed to have a hard lump in her crop the size of a quarter. I massaged it a little and then she pooped three times in a minute. Her poop looked a little yellow and a bit like yogurt the first two times. The third time, her poop looked a little firmer.

Her breath smells pretty bad and she is eating shavings! I tried to get her to eat and drink but she wouldn't. I gave her some chopped up egg last night and she ate it all.

I started a new thread because I found yellow lesions in her throat..........here is the link.........
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1080266/wet-pox

LittleBoPeep1 said:

I have a hen who is about eight months old that is sneezing and breathing through her mouth. When she inhales, her beak is closed, but when she exhales she opens her beak. Her breathing looks pretty labored and she makes a wheezing noise when she does this. Also, she is sneezing quite a bit, maybe once every two minutes. She has had raspy breathing for about a week. She is possibly a little lethargic, but is eating and drinking, and she is laying an egg. Any suggestions?
Thanks

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I took mine out of the pen with the others when it didn't go away after 3 weeks just got worse and we had snow. None of the others have it. She's healthy in every aspect except the wheeze and sneezing, although bringing her in the house the sneezing has slowed down to one quarter of what is was. She's driving me nuts I have to clean her out 2-3 times a day because she hops around knocking things over! I've tried worming health drops garlic seaweed all the usual go to things. I've had chickens 35 yrs and have never seen this one! I wondered if it was anything to do with the fact my son in law had to create walk way in the pen as it got boggy this year because of water levels being high in our area(we live on a flood plain). He also put a cover over the pen because of Avian flue being in the next county but it's not that or
they would all be dead by now. I'm not so keen on antibiotics because apart from the wheeze and sneeze shes absolutely fine laying hard shell eggs with clear eyes beak and a red comb! Do chickens get chesty colds?