My hens have had a respiratory infection (I think) for close to a week. I took the sickest one to a vet and was given antibiotics for the whole flock as well as meloxicam to help with symptoms. They’ve had low energy, coughing, congestion, and swollen eyes. I am on day 6 (out of 7) of...
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I have two hens that started to cough/sneeze 4 weeks ago. I watched them for a few days, they showed no other symptoms. A third one started to sneeze a bit as well. Since they kept coughing, a vet gave me amoxyclav to put in their water. The third one who was sneezing a tiny bit was fine...
I caught and isolated two hens from our flock this morning as both are coughing and one has mucus coming out of her nose. I had noticed my Wyandotte making snuffle noises but didn’t know if it was allergies or dust. Both still have reddish combs, although one is rather dry looking. Both are...
One of my EE’s started making a strange sound, it reminds me of a very soft bark. I’ve watched different videos and think it’s probably a sneeze over a cough. She is acting normal as far as I can tell but I noticed the sound around 4pm today and she wasn’t doing it earlier today around 1pm. I...
Hi all,
I'm in my first year of chicken keeping, we bought a house that already had a large coop and chickens that stayed with it. So we were driving pretty blind but walked into a functioning system.
I believe the previous owner said that most of the hens were 2-3 yrs old, there are a couple...