1 week old poult mouth breathing

[SilkieQueen91]

I everyone I have a 1 week old poult who has been mouth breathing and sneezing periodically. What I have done so far is use VetRx on it and in the warm spot of bedding, Corid in water for 5 days now, checked temperature hot spot is around 97-99f cool spot is around 84-86f, medicated chick start mixed with 30% game start, .1cc of tylan 50, electrolyte water. I feel like I have tried everything I know. She has a brooder mate bought at the same it seems to be growing a lot fast than she is. She still acts fine other than laying around more than the other. The other has no symptoms and is a typical turkey poult super curious but the other one not do much. I have switched the bedding from pine shavings to dog pee pads. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!!! Thank you!

 

[azygous]

The most probable cause is panting from the brooder being too warm. The brooder shouldn't be warmer than 80F at the end of the first week. (Brooder heat guidelines are not usually realistic)

A brooder that is too small is also dangerous since heat can build up and if the brooder is too small, finding a cool spot to shed the excess heat is impossible.

Other causes can be a crop that is not emptying properly so check the crop for over fullness and hardness.

A respiratory illness could be the cause. Stress can cause gaping, and so can pain from an injury. Check carefully for this latter. Often a simple torn toenail can cause immense pain and the affected poult will become prostrate with it.

Those are your possibilities, but the heat issue is probably the most likely.

 

[SilkieQueen91]

Thank you so much! I've checked the crop it's soft. Do you think turning the heat off completely will help they're in a brooder inside my house and we have the heat on 68 and they're brooder is daily close to a air vent.

 

[azygous]

During the day, they are consuming calories, so they need far less heat. At night, when not eating, they will lose heat more quickly, so they do need heat for the next few weeks at night. You can try shutting off the heat during the day, and if they huddle tightly, it will mean they are chilled and need the heat to go back on.

 

[SilkieQueen91]

Ok I'll give that a shot, I've just bout tried everything but that

 

[SilkieQueen91]

I lowered the temperature and she was still panting. So I started treating sour crop and now she is on the up and up. I'm guessing treating her with antibiotics caused a yeast infection and it's day 2 now of treating sour crop and she looks forward to her medicine, thank you so much for the advice