Hello,
I have a sweet little Maran Pullet about 9-10 weeks old that I bought from a private individual who had a small chicken farm. I bought two at the time, same age, and after two weeks one of them, seemingly not growing and not thriving but otherwise normal, died one morning. The other pullet developed diarrhea, poor appetite, kind of a funny smell and a swollen eye. After a day of searching posts on the subject of sickness and eye infections, I thought it was coryzia and bought Tylan 50 injectable and gave approximately .45 cc orally to the chick twice daily and she seemed to perk up after 5 days. I ended up giving her a total of 6 days at that dose then stopped as we had to go out of town for a week so. Our house sitter took care of her and updated me with reports daily during this time. Her eye gradually seemed to swell back up, but she is normal otherwise; no diarrhea, has a great appetite, growing, very social, snuggles up to her surrogate mother (a black feather duster I put in her cage that looks just like her) and seems to be thriving. The big problem is that her eye is swollen again; I don't see that it is draining or red, but it is really swollen and she is starting to have that funny smell again. Has anyone had any experience with this? If her eye stays the way it is, I'm afraid she won't be able to fit in with the rest of the chickens when it gets warm enough. More than that, I am afraid she may be infectious so I'm keeping her away from the other chickens until I know what to do. Should I put her back on the Tylan 50 at a higher dose, and longer?
I have a sweet little Maran Pullet about 9-10 weeks old that I bought from a private individual who had a small chicken farm. I bought two at the time, same age, and after two weeks one of them, seemingly not growing and not thriving but otherwise normal, died one morning. The other pullet developed diarrhea, poor appetite, kind of a funny smell and a swollen eye. After a day of searching posts on the subject of sickness and eye infections, I thought it was coryzia and bought Tylan 50 injectable and gave approximately .45 cc orally to the chick twice daily and she seemed to perk up after 5 days. I ended up giving her a total of 6 days at that dose then stopped as we had to go out of town for a week so. Our house sitter took care of her and updated me with reports daily during this time. Her eye gradually seemed to swell back up, but she is normal otherwise; no diarrhea, has a great appetite, growing, very social, snuggles up to her surrogate mother (a black feather duster I put in her cage that looks just like her) and seems to be thriving. The big problem is that her eye is swollen again; I don't see that it is draining or red, but it is really swollen and she is starting to have that funny smell again. Has anyone had any experience with this? If her eye stays the way it is, I'm afraid she won't be able to fit in with the rest of the chickens when it gets warm enough. More than that, I am afraid she may be infectious so I'm keeping her away from the other chickens until I know what to do. Should I put her back on the Tylan 50 at a higher dose, and longer?
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