Geeze, so sorry for the birds you are losing. Hope the lab gets some answers for you quick so you can get the other birds treated.
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https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/just-the-facts-avian-influenzaI put down one of my Crested Cream Legbar hens tonight. I went out and she was sitting alone roosting on top of the brooder coop with bubbles coming out of her eyes, dried snot plaster to her beak and horrible rattling sounds coming out of her lungs along with coughing.
(ETA: She also had weird waxy stuff all inside her beak and bloody spots on the top of it inside as well as white spots down her tongue and throat)
I will be sending her in for necropsy too since she seems to have yet more different symptomsAND tonight I noticed one of the baby chicks in the inside brooder is doing something weird with its head. It looks at you and then its head starts to drift sort of jerkily, slowly off to the side. Then it brings it back to center and starts over again with it drifting and bobbing and torquing some ever so slightly and slowly off to the side. Its one of the oldest, biggest and seemingly healthiest ones - probably about a week old. Eats well, not chirpy, looked fine till this. ***???? What is going on here???
how much to they charge?The chick was trembling this morning and winking one eye as well as doing the twitchy head thing. I have run out of ways to isolate sick ones... I don't have another heat lamp. I had to put the chick downIf I thought for sure it had the same thing the outside flock had I would put it out there - but no - the symptoms are totally different. I spent all night reading about all the diseases that included "wry neck" and nothing fits - supposedly with things that cause this it starts in the legs and works up to the head if I understand correctly. The already get vitamins in their water. I have another call in to A & M so I can ask which birds to send. This is going to be VERY expensive - even shipping is going to be an arm and a leg I am sure.