Need help with Coryza!

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You can get one of them tested. There is a lab called Zoologix in California that offers a Poultry Respiratory Panel. The test costs about $150 plus shipping of the specimen. It was money well spent to save my flock from unnecessary culling. Here's the url: http://www.zoologix.com/avian/index.htm

The sample is taken via tracheal swab by a vet and sent to Zoologix. Three days later you will know if your birds have one of the infectious respiratory disease like coryza that makes them carrriers. I just had it done on one of mine and found out we do NOT have one of those 7 diseases.
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(He is recovering well right now, in isolation on the side yard next to our neighbors whose son is a drummer. Oh, and he has started crowing again, Poetic justice!)
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Call your vet. You can also sacrifice a sick bird for necropsy and find out what is making them sick.

Good luck. I know how heartbreaking it it.

Mary

If your birds are severely dehydrated they need fluid faster than they can get it by drinking. Your vet can provide you with fluid, needles and syringes to inject small amounts of fluid under the skin where it is rapidly absorbed. My Rocky was down with his legs in the air and the sub Q fluid and antibiotics brought him back. Quickly.
 
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The chickens you have WILL infect any other birds that come in contact with anything the infected birds have been around. The disease can also live in the soil for a bit, so disinfecting EVERYTHING they have been introduced too with bleach. You can cull, decontaminate, wait a bit and start over, or you can just have birds that will be sick off and on for the rest of their lives and will infect any other birds you get. There is supposedly a vaccine out now cor Coryza but I have not had any dealings with it myself. I've been through this firsthand, we culled all 150 birds, soaked everything with bleach, waited several months and started over. WE have not had any trouble since then, but then again I learned my lesson and have never bought a live bird EVER again. i get hatching eggs from NPIP certified flocks and hatch mine out myself now.
 
Our state vet tested for free. I got the number for the diagnostics lab from our state's Dept of Agriculture website. They did a throat swab and a blood sample from a sampling of birds and I got the results in about a week.
 
DITTO the definitive diagnostic testing. In the meantime you can treat with the meds (I am assuming you got the baytril?) until you hear the outcome of the testing and decide how to proceed further.
 
I cannot do a test. $150 for that is ridiculous. I'd rather have enough money to eat. I don't know what to do. The Baytril is expensive, too. Everyone is telling me something different.
 
That is because there are several meds that will treat coryza ... and half of the ones advertising such often are not sufficient to do the job... baytril is the most effective.
Noone is saying you must pay out for the diagnostic testing... just that if you CAN do it it is really advisable to do so as anything else is just guesswork and you were asking about culling which is a very serious thing (which might not even be necessary > even though it does seem at first glance this is coryza, there are sometimes very virulent forms of other respiratory conditions in which the birds will not be carriers) > if this is a PET flock and you take the necessary precautions and the birds recover and do not relapse, then even if you do have a case of coryza you may decide not to cull (IF it is coryza then you would need to take precautions not to go around any other poultry).
If you have another death then you can contact your extension office and ask for the telephone number of the state vet and ask for diagnostics because of multiple deaths > most states will do this for free or for a very small charge.
 
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If the $$$$$$$$$ is the biggest hitch and can not afford, you can either do one of the two things:

CULL by death OR hope for the best treating in what you can afford and let the survivors live their lives out but remember any new birds you will get, they will either die or sick and survive it.

It is your choice and we will not condemn the choices you had to make when money are tight.

I, too, had to refuse to take my young pullet for narcosepy because it was so expensive....$300 to ship to U of I and do tests. We had a cat that had surgery two weeks prior, costing us $800 total and we were broke. So I had her put down and I havent had a sick bird since then. Possible of West Nile but who knows???????

Just do the best you can!
 
My vet prescribed metronidazole when I had an eye problem with my pheasants.I was told it was coryza but not certain it was.Anyway the metronidazole cleared it up in 4 days.I believe this is a generic for flagyl.
In N.H.,Tony.
 
Your State Department of Animal & Ag should do necropsys. Ours charges $30 for up to 3 birds. If your birds are pets and you don't plan on selling them etc.... you can treat them. They do have a vaccine for it. Treatment for Corzoa.... 1 teaspoon of Gallimycin powder & 1 teaspoon of Aureomycin/Sulmet powder in 1 gallon drinking water for 7 days, then stop the Aureo/Sulmet and up the Gallimycin powder to 2 teaspoons per gallon for another 7 days. After treatment vaccinate all birds 3 weeks or older with 1/2cc Coryza vaccine. Repeat vaccine in 4 weeks. Birds still showing symtoms 2-4 weeks after are carriers and should be culled if possible.
 
Chickens cannot get or pass on West Nile. The only animal that coryza affects is chickens, this includes all other species of birds; there are other diseases with silimar symptoms that do affect other species.

Merck says that baytril will peevent a carrier state; however, it is prohibited as a whole flock treatment; this is especially intended for commercial flocks. Baytril can legally be prescribed for a bird or two on an individual basis. If someone is selling it OTC, that is illegal.

Different states have different policies as to whether they charge for testing or necropsy; you need to contact yours and ask. You can also call your vet and ask for the cost of a culture to determine what you have--this would generally be done from a throat swab, and probably isn't nearly as expensive as the entire $150 panel.

Chickens do not get "colds." However I personally find that term to be somewhat synonimous with upper respiratory infection, and therefore don't have a problem with using the term. I do have a problem with ignoring the symptoms and expecting them to get well without rteatment. Most of the germs that cause URIs have very similar symptoms; some are mild and may be somewhat self contained. However others are quite virulent.
 

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