A very sick chicken

[Hayamz]

Can I know what's wrong with this chicken ? I bought her on Friday along with another 3 at the same age .. She was fine until this morning then she started to sneeze and was like she had trouble breathing with foamy eye , I took her out of the coop and put her in an isolated bird cage ..after 3 hours I found her left eye like in the picture and she doesn't sneeze and no wheezing

... Is there a chance to help her ?? She ate and drank not as much as when I bought her but she did .. If there is a treatment I need a natural one like food or so because where I live there's no access to poultry medicine , where I live they don't care that much for animals but I do so I wanna help her .. Also how to prevent the same thing from happening to the other chickens that were in contact with her ?? I put garlic to their water I read somewhere that it's a natural antibiotic but I notice that one of them opens only one eye and closes the other and it seems like it itches her.. Any solution please ??

 

[Eggcessive]

Did you buy all 4 chickens from the same person? I would be bery worried that she has a respiratory infection, such as coryza or possibly mycoplasma(MG.) MG is more mild, but both are chronic diseases and can cause swelling or pus in the eye and sinus. I honestly would not keep her, but take her back with no questions asked or cull her. If the others were raised with her, take them all back.

If you have other chickens or poultry they may be exposed, especially by your hands, clothes and shoes, so be careful to wash hands and change shoes between coops. All new chickens should be in quarantine for at least 30 days to see if they get any symptoms of disease. It takes 3-6 days or more to see any symptoms after being exposed.

If these were your only chickens, you could try treating with antibiotics such as Tylan or sulfadimethoxine, and see how it goes, but they will always be carriers. Any new birds added could get it. Here is a good link to read about the common diseases including infectious bronchitis, MG, coryza, ILT and others: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044

 

[micstrachan]

Sorry your new bird is unwell. Great advice from @Eggcessive. Coryza was my first thought. If you decide to keep her, supportive care like an available heat source and poultry vitamins may also help. If you can’t get poultry vitamins, you can try Enfamil brand poly v sol without iron (infant vitamins). Good luck and please keep us posted.

 

[Eggcessive]

I was reading back through some of your previous threads, and was reminded that you are in Egypt. It helps to put your location in your profile page, since then we know more about what medicines and things that might be available.

Since you have other chickens, be careful about exposing them to whatever she has. I meant to ask if she has a bad odor, which can be common with coryza.

 

[Hayamz]

I was reading back through some of your previous threads, and was reminded that you are in Egypt. It helps to put your location in your profile page, since then we know more about what medicines and things that might be available.

Since you have other chickens, be careful about exposing them to whatever she has. I meant to ask if she has a bad odor, which can be common with coryza.

No there isn't any smells coming out of her .. It's already hot outside with hot air .. I keep her in the living room but I closed the windows because I thought air will make things worse ??
And she was already sneezing with foamy eye when she was with the other 3 chickens .. So I'm not sure if they will catch what she has her left eye got swollen shortly after I moved her out of the coop .

 

[Hayamz]

I went to check on her and her second eye started to be foamy and a little bit swollen and I can hear strange sounds coming out of her .. Not weezing but it's more like when you eat a bag of crisps and then throw it away I don't know the exact word for it.. She looks really sick that I'm not sure she will pull it through out the night .. I wanna know what to do to prevent that from happening to the rest of the chickens

 

[Sutremaine]

Crinkling?

They've probably all got whatever she's got, they're just not expressing any symptoms right now. Kind of like cold sores -- once you've got the virus, you've got it for good, even though you won't have a cold sore all the time.

Stress can exacerbate the symptoms, but I don't know what you can do to destress a new chicken.

 

[Eggcessive]

It is most likely coryza, a bacterial disease. I would put her down and dispose of the body, or if she dies by morning, do the same. Incineration or deep burial would be best. So sorry, but these chickens will infect your others if you keep them.

 

[Cayuga momma]

I sadly agree with eggcessive.

Infectious coryza (IC) is an acute respiratory disease of chickens caused by two species of bacteria which include Avibacterium paragallinarum (previous referred to as Haemophilus paragallinarum) and Av. gallinarum.

Chickens of all ages can get IC, but the disease is usually less severe in younger birds than in adults. When younger birds are infected they often have a reduced incubation period (therefore they get infected faster than adults) and disease course. The typical disease course is 2-3 weeks, however it may persist longer for chickens with concurrent infections.

Transmission:
Introduction of new chickens into an existing established flock is the most common way birds are infected. Signs of IC usually occur within 1 to 6 weeks after new chickens (unknowingly recovered carrier birds) are introduced to a flock. Taking birds to outside agricultural events or poultry shows and bringing them back to the flock is another frequent method of how IC is introduced into flocks. IC is transmitted to chickens by: Direct bird-to-bird contact Inhalation of infectious aerosols, coughed into the air Ingestion of feed/or water contaminated with feces or discharge from infected birds Contaminated clothing, shared equipment or fomites

Chickens that recover from IC often still remain as carriers, and may intermittently shed the bacteria in their feces during stressful events.

The incubation period for IC is 1 to 3 days.

Treatment:

• Isolate the bird from the flock and place in a safe, comfortable, warm location (your own chicken "intensive care unit") with easy access to water and food.
• Limit stress.
• Call your veterinarian.
• Sulfathiazol for birds under 14 weeks of age - 0.5% in feed or in drinking water, at a rate of 1-1.5 gm/L for 5-7 days.
• Sulfadimethoxine Initial dose of 2-3 g/L water for the first day and subsequent dose up to 4-6 g/L in water for 3-5 days
• Trimethoprim/sulfadimethoxine 0.1% in drinking water for 7 successive days
• Enrofloxacin (Baytril, Cidotril, Spectramavit) 10 mg/kg BW for 3-5 days in drinking water
• Norfloxacin (Norotril) 12 mg/kg BW for 3-5 days
• Danoflxacin (Advocin) 5 mg/kg BW for 3 days in water
• Colloidal silver Spray into chickens mouth, place a few drops in the chicken's mouth to swallow, or put a few drops on the chicken's nostrils for them to inhale
• Apple cider vinegar

See more at: http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/infectious-coryza

 

[Hayamz]

It is most likely coryza, a bacterial disease. I would put her down and dispose of the body, or if she dies by morning, do the same. Incineration or deep burial would be best. So sorry, but these chickens will infect your others if you keep them.

I only have these four will they all die ?? She is still alive but getting worse .. I feel so bad for her because she's clearly in a severe pain but I can't put her down on my own and I have no one to do this is there any way to treat the other chickens before they show symptoms or before they develop ??