- Sep 4, 2011
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I have posted several times about various things I have been seeing. Here is the situation:
Flock of 7 chicken, new to my house on Aug 7th and 8th. Got 4 from one person and 3 others from another. Both respected breeders in the area. They where between 1 1/2 to 3 months old. When I first started to notice that the welsummer was being listless and wanting to keep her eyes closed and wanted to rest a lot, I brought her into the house in a dog crateand feed her well and kept her away from the pullet that was giving her a hard time. She was missing quite a few feathers from her vent area and I thought that she was just being picked on by one pullet. I thought a little R&R would be good for her. She did seem to perk up after a while and didn't seem to like it in the house anymore so I reintroduced her back into the flock and that seemed to go well. I haven't seen anymore feather plucking and she seems to have been accepted back. When I put her back I had noticed that there were some little sneezes ( it took me a while to realized that is what they were) and so I decided to put everyone on duramycin - 10 for 10 days. There seemed to be no change and the sneezing is getting worse and the welsummer's eye was still bad. Yesterday I started treating the eye with Terramycin. I don't see any nasal discharge and there doesn't seem to be any bad smell. This is were I am today:
1) What type of bird , age and weight. Welsummer
2) What is the behavior, exactly. Swollen eye (see picture below) and not being very active and many of the chickens are sneezing (don't know if she is)
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? 3-4 weeks
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms? Sneezing but I'm not sure if it in everyone (7 in flock)
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma. The pullet in question was being feather pick on vent when I first got her. I haven't seen that going on for several weeks
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation. I noticed this (the eye) about 3 weeks after I got the pullets. Sneezing about 3 weeks
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all. Yes but all of them look a little thin especially her.
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny?What is the color? The welsummers poop is runny/watery with chucks. Everyone else seems normal
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far? I treated the whole flock with duramycin-10 for 10 days in their water. Also started with terramycin ointment for the eye of the welsummer
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet? I would like to treat myself if possible. Do not want to have to go to a vet. Don't even know if there is one around here that treats chickens.
11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use They are in a small bought coop (CCONLY R-32, picture below) with a 200 sqft run around the coop. They free range for 1-2 hours every eveneing (when I can put my 4 dogs in) Their coop has pine shaving in it and that getts scoped cleaned every 2 days. No smell in the coop so I think it is fairly clean.
The welsummer in question.
The coop I have.
I was able to treat the welsummer with the terramycin last night after they had gone in for the night and again this afternoon. What else should I do? What is it I am dealing with. I don't notice a bad smell, I don't see anything on their skin but then again I don't know what is normal since I am so new to this. I have not picked my chickens up very much so I don't know what feels and looks normal so I don't know when something is not right.
Here is a picture of some of the others. Do they look OK?
Flock of 7 chicken, new to my house on Aug 7th and 8th. Got 4 from one person and 3 others from another. Both respected breeders in the area. They where between 1 1/2 to 3 months old. When I first started to notice that the welsummer was being listless and wanting to keep her eyes closed and wanted to rest a lot, I brought her into the house in a dog crateand feed her well and kept her away from the pullet that was giving her a hard time. She was missing quite a few feathers from her vent area and I thought that she was just being picked on by one pullet. I thought a little R&R would be good for her. She did seem to perk up after a while and didn't seem to like it in the house anymore so I reintroduced her back into the flock and that seemed to go well. I haven't seen anymore feather plucking and she seems to have been accepted back. When I put her back I had noticed that there were some little sneezes ( it took me a while to realized that is what they were) and so I decided to put everyone on duramycin - 10 for 10 days. There seemed to be no change and the sneezing is getting worse and the welsummer's eye was still bad. Yesterday I started treating the eye with Terramycin. I don't see any nasal discharge and there doesn't seem to be any bad smell. This is were I am today:
1) What type of bird , age and weight. Welsummer
2) What is the behavior, exactly. Swollen eye (see picture below) and not being very active and many of the chickens are sneezing (don't know if she is)
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? 3-4 weeks
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms? Sneezing but I'm not sure if it in everyone (7 in flock)
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma. The pullet in question was being feather pick on vent when I first got her. I haven't seen that going on for several weeks
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation. I noticed this (the eye) about 3 weeks after I got the pullets. Sneezing about 3 weeks
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all. Yes but all of them look a little thin especially her.
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny?What is the color? The welsummers poop is runny/watery with chucks. Everyone else seems normal
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far? I treated the whole flock with duramycin-10 for 10 days in their water. Also started with terramycin ointment for the eye of the welsummer
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet? I would like to treat myself if possible. Do not want to have to go to a vet. Don't even know if there is one around here that treats chickens.
11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use They are in a small bought coop (CCONLY R-32, picture below) with a 200 sqft run around the coop. They free range for 1-2 hours every eveneing (when I can put my 4 dogs in) Their coop has pine shaving in it and that getts scoped cleaned every 2 days. No smell in the coop so I think it is fairly clean.
The welsummer in question.
The coop I have.
I was able to treat the welsummer with the terramycin last night after they had gone in for the night and again this afternoon. What else should I do? What is it I am dealing with. I don't notice a bad smell, I don't see anything on their skin but then again I don't know what is normal since I am so new to this. I have not picked my chickens up very much so I don't know what feels and looks normal so I don't know when something is not right.
Here is a picture of some of the others. Do they look OK?