I keep a prescription of Tamiflu on hand just in case I get whatever flavor flu is going around. I wouldn't hesitate to use it on a chicken in my flock that might have avian flu.
However, the problem with that plan is three-fold. First, I would need to have a way of verifying they have avian...
You have a point. I often have the notion myself of just throwing a med at a problem just to see what would happen with my one chicken, my very own clinical trial if you will. I did this a couple years ago when I thought some pullets had Marek's and I wanted to see if the anti-viral herpes med...
https://www.alltech.com/blog/how-prevent-avian-influenza-poultry Goes over the common sense methods to keep your flock safe.
There are sometimes many different strains of a virus, and those are often going through mutations, changing so rapidly that science can't nail down a strain long enough...