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I understand. My husband and I will make a decision tonight and I'll keep everyone updated to what progress we make. Thanks again!
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When my chickens had it, I locked them in the coop for 2 days with Sulmet and Duramycin in their water. (They're free-ranged and I have a pond, so I had to be sure that the only water available to them was medicated.) I did have to cull the 8-wk-old chicks that got sick before I figured out what it was, but I managed to save the rest of the flock. My 2-wk-old chicks and my year-old laying hens got it, and though egg production is down, they're all recovered and strutting around the yard.
But I was all ready to cull the others, if I had to. I wasn't sure if I had coryza or infectious bronchitis, since some got swollen faces and some just got congestion. But we managed to have a 100% survival rate once we got treatment going.
If you treat laying hens, withdraw eggs until 2 weeks after the last dose. I just scrambled the eggs up and fed them back to the chickens, so they didn't go to waste.
Oh, and ours wasn't caused by introducing new birds to the flock. But my neighborhood is HUGE on backyard chickens. The nearest coop is a block away, then one on the next block, and the next... I also have wild birds and field mice getting into my yard, the biggest downside of letting them free-range. I figure it came in on a mouse or a bird, so there's nothing I can do to completely erradicate it. So I just keep medicine onhand, watch out for the symptoms, and don't share my birds with ANYONE! I have some beautiful chicks that are turning out to be roosters, but if I give them away, I could be giving someone a bird that's a carrier for whatever we caught. So even my silver spangled hamburg roo is going to go in the stewpot.