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8/30/12 at 6:46pm
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What does Coryza smell like? And what are the smells in sick birds?

 I might be dealing with Coryza, but we have no smell of death or rotten eggs or anything that makes me want to yak, there is a smell, but its not bad. I know I have another thread on here about my sick birds, but I want to do all i can before i cull.

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post #2 of 3
8/31/12 at 3:22am

It smells nasty.  

 

I feared one of mine once had Croyza and it did have a fetid breath.  I spoke with a vet at the Gonzales TX diagnostic lab from Texas A&M, and I was beside myself thinking poor innocent bird would have to meet it's death prematurely.  The vet said from what I described (despite the odor) that he thought it wasn't Croyza.  He advised me NOT to cull.  So I didn't.  My chicken recovered from what ever was ailing her, and she lived quite a long and productive life IMO.   A good layer. 

 

I would suggest at least a phone call to a chicken vet, or a person who knows a lot about chickens.  There is a person who will do call backs for $25, and the fee is waived if you purchase any meds from http://www.firststatevetsupply.com/  It is "the Chicken Doctor" Dr. Peter Brown.  There are also Vets on line if you want to take that approach.  If you don't have a local vet who sees chickens --- or if their bird fee runs into the 100's.  

 

Good luck.  

 

ETA do isolate the one that you think may be ill and follow biosecurity -- just in case.

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"Was dich nicht umwirft, macht dich starker"   "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger."-Friedrich Nietzsche 
My new tag line...added to the end of every sentence--->  "...... after all, they ARE chickens!!!"

 

Here's a link to my BYC page:  http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/chickats-page

Here's a link to my BYC blog of sorts http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/jottings

 

 

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8/31/12 at 6:26am
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It smells nasty.  

 

I feared one of mine once had Croyza and it did have a fetid breath.  I spoke with a vet at the Gonzales TX diagnostic lab from Texas A&M, and I was beside myself thinking poor innocent bird would have to meet it's death prematurely.  The vet said from what I described (despite the odor) that he thought it wasn't Croyza.  He advised me NOT to cull.  So I didn't.  My chicken recovered from what ever was ailing her, and she lived quite a long and productive life IMO.   A good layer. 

 

I would suggest at least a phone call to a chicken vet, or a person who knows a lot about chickens.  There is a person who will do call backs for $25, and the fee is waived if you purchase any meds from http://www.firststatevetsupply.com/  It is "the Chicken Doctor" Dr. Peter Brown.  There are also Vets on line if you want to take that approach.  If you don't have a local vet who sees chickens --- or if their bird fee runs into the 100's.  

 

Good luck.  

 

ETA do isolate the one that you think may be ill and follow biosecurity -- just in case.

 

 

see, the thing of it is, is this really does not smell that bad, It smells like someone that has not bathed in forever with out the BO, I unfortunately know this smell from working in a few homes.

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