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Thanks for sharing that experience jeginathol. I still have ALL the other birds, who are still healthy and now laying up a storm. We have been eating the eggs, washed and cooked (we don't really eat raw or underdone eggs anyway, so haven't tried it).

Thanks ChickenCanoe. Your post makes sense. I guess the concern is if we keep them and it turns out the bird that died from it was the canary in the coal mine, so to speak, and the rest soon follow, all the while amplifying listeria in our environment. I wonder if there is some way to tell if...

I too have recently lost a bird to listeria and the resulting encephalitis (confirmed through necropsy). I suspect she came home with it from the farm we bought her from. Poultry vet recommendation is to dispatch the entire flock and start over because of the potential risk to humans. The other...

Hey Chevybelle, I had nearly the same experience you did, same symptoms including the swelling (on some birds not all) and sneezing (the serious "ka-CHOO," not the ladylike, almost silent "hsph"), rales, gasping, clear mucous out of the nose and eyes. I did have all 8 birds tested for...

Thanks, all, for your warm welcoming! It is great to have a community to grow with.

I have a flock of seven (6 16-week-olds and 1 19-week-old): 1 Black Copper Maran rooster 2 BCM hens 3 Welsummer hens 1 Blue Orpington hen I obtained a great amount of information from this site during a very tough time - my young flock had Infectious Bronchitis (it was finally diagnosed...

I (and my poultry vet) thought my flock had a microplasma infection - foamy eyes, wheezing and sneezing, symptoms showed up a day and a half after exchanging two cockerels for three hens from the same supplier we bought the chicks from. They turned out to be positive for infectious bronchitis...

It does not look like an advanced case of bumblefoot, if that is what it is, but from what I have read the earlier you act with this the easier it is to treat. I brought home a 6-week-old chick on which I found something like that on the bottom of her foot. By the time I realized it was a...

http://www.vcahospitals.com/smoketown/our-team/veterinarians/john-hall/24524 Dr. Hall collaborated with a poultry vet who did bloodwork and diagnoses for one of my chickens. Good luck!!