Foul Smelling Head, Some Nasal Discharge - Page 4

NO!  Do not treat with sulmet and a wormer at the same time. Sulmet is the preferred treatment in conjunction with tylan 50 to treat coryza, but not with wazine or any other wormer. The combination would be too harsh on the birds system causing possible organ damage or even death.

Sulmet 12.5% soluable powder dosage is 2 tablespoons per gallon of water. Medicate at that strength for 2 days. Then reduce to half strength, 1 tablespoon per gallon of water for an additional 4 days. If your bird is not drinking on her own, you'll have to force the treated water in her. Be careful not to aspirate her and you'll have to give her the treated water at least 7-8 times a day to hopefully be effective. You can use tylan 50 injectable by injecting it into the breast muscle just under the skin (1/2cc for standards, 1/4cc for smaller birds) once a day for 3 days. Alternate injection sites...left breast, right breast, then left breast and not injecting into the same place.

Then wait several days after the sulmet treatment and worm your bird with valbazen liquid cattle/sheep wormer or safeguard liquid goat wormer (not wazine.)  Both wormers are easier on the chickens system than wazine and they kill more types of worms than wazine.

Dosage for either wormer is 1/2cc for standards, 1/4cc for smaller birds and give orally undiluted. Repeat again in 10 days.

Again, I recommend the bird be culled and sent off for necropsy. You can contact your county extension agent, state department of agriculture or a vet to find out how to go about doing that.

Dawg...

Thanks for all your advice.  I have stored that information away for when/if I need it. 

How are things going now? What did you end up doing?

better give some sulfonamides to your birds and isolate the sick one.if ever you have one i have some inconvenient way of treating my birds with the same case as yours. i use hexetedine to clear the nostrils of my hen just 5 drops per nostrils to clear the nasal cavities from mucus since chickens do not sneeze like we do.so if they do not sneeze build up of mucus in the nasal cavity develops until it becomes like a cheezy material inside giving it a foul odor.another thing they brush of there nostrils on the side of their wings giving it  wet and droopy appearance and also some foul odor is evident when you smell it.oral antibiotics will not help unless you remove the cheezy material inside there nasal cavity by simple surgery for worst cases.hope it helps

My chicks are experiencing the same thing right now
I am in so much stress

My silver pheasants have gotten it too
Her eyes are cloudy 

And one of my roos has it really bad


Any one has any ideas?

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Originally Posted by aubreynoramarie 

Well she never got any sicker than the nasal discharge, and her partner did end up getting the discharge and the smell. I was considering culling the two of them, until one more bird that was in with my flock started getting the smell too. Figured at that point that everyone was exposed to whatever it was nd just treated the entire flock with sulmet and gave the three that were smelly shots for three days. None of the other 25 birds have gotten sick and the original sickies made a full recovery within the week. All is well :) I shall just keep a closed flock, Ive got just about enough anyways and no one is going anywhere... thanks for asking!

 

thank you very much this is great advice

I'm glad to hear that none of the others have shown symptoms, but definitely agree that a closed flock is the way to go. Too much risk otherwise. Good luck with them!