3-4 month old chicks dying!Please Help!

[chrisandkatie]

Hydrogen Peroxide would be a bad idea for an eye issue. In fact, it could cause blindness. Where did you get that idea?
HP kills healthy cells. It is primarily used to flush a fresh wound of dirt. An eye swollen shut doesn't fit that description.
If you want to treat an eye problem, use an eye type triple antibiotic ointment.


With today's gas prices, driving it there will likely be cheaper than any other method. That works for me. I'm 3+ hours from the lab.

If you can't afford to get the necropsy, the best approach would be to cull the entire flock, disinfect housing and start from scratch with new healthy birds.

Yes this is my best option 1h 40min drive. I had dr appt all weak last week some being over 1hr and a half away (Charlotte) in the opposite direction of where I needed to take a dead chick(Fletcher). At $2/gal of gas in my 2005 kia sorento I get on average 20 miles per gallon. It would cost appro $20 there an back and the time to drive. I need some eye type triple antibiotic ointment. I'll stop using the hydrogen peroxide on her eye. Thanks for telling me it kills healthy cells I didn't know that. They seem to be responding to the anti biotics I've been giving them though so hopefully they'll get better. I had something similar happen to my older chickens when they where young and they are still alive doing great so I can't kill all my chickens.

 

[chrisandkatie]

I am starting new eggs in an incubator. Should I call around to some local vets(none of which see poultry) to see if they can prescribe a vaccination for Marek's disease? Coccidiosis doesn't have a vaccination does it? If it does what drug should I ask to be prescribed or should I just leave that up to the vet? The vets around here might not even know, but I can google it.

 

[chrisandkatie]

I do know what ever disease/virus they have effects their respiratory system because before they die their combs are limb and become to turn blue before they die and a sticky substance comes out of their mouths.
One chick that was on the brink of death has almost fully recovered. It's eating scratching and drinking and full of energy, but I'm waiting till they get some weight back on them to put them outside because moving them will just stress them out again plus the heat here is bad. My favorite one is having a hard time right now but I hope he gets better. I'll keep you updated on what happens and what I do.

 

[casportpony]

I have a jewelry scale that weighs to the thousandths of a gram so .003 means 3mg

Glad you're weighing your powder, that's good, but you need to figure out how many mg oxytetracycline there are in one gram, do some math, then weigh it

Most common is this, which weighs 181.5 grams and has 10 grams (10,000 mg) oxytetracycline.
10000/181.5 = ~55 mg per gram

Looks like you were under dosing by a huge amount if this is what you have:



The label says to use various amounts per gallon, so for those that do it that way, this is the per gallon dose for 800 mg:

One teaspoon weighs about 3 grams which = 165mg x 5 teaspoons = 825 mg
The 800 mg dose for one gallon = 5 teaspoons (825mg is close enough)

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I do know what ever disease/virus they have effects their respiratory system because before they die their combs are limb and become to turn blue before they die and a sticky substance comes out of their mouths.
One chick that was on the brink of death has almost fully recovered. It's eating scratching and drinking and full of energy, but I'm waiting till they get some weight back on them to put them outside because moving them will just stress them out again plus the heat here is bad. My favorite one is having a hard time right now but I hope he gets better. I'll keep you updated on what happens and what I do.

Did you know that mucus from the mouth at death is common in birds and animals without respiratory diseases?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

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