Accident During Medicating

[Eggcessive]

Well, because chickens lay eggs, most medications and antibiotics are not approved. Tylosin is one that is approved in the US. But I never tell people to use an antibiotic unless they know what they are treating. A small amount of antibiotics can be found in the eggs for a couple of weeks after using them, and you certainly don’t want to eat them or contribute to antibiotic resistant bacteria. So, it is always good to help build up their immunity, and let them fight off things naturally.

 

[PossiblyPekin]

Well, because chickens lay eggs, most medications and antibiotics are not approved. Tylosin is one that is approved in the US. But I never tell people to use an antibiotic unless they know what they are treating. A small amount of antibiotics can be found in the eggs for a couple of weeks after using them, and you certainly don’t want to eat them or contribute to antibiotic resistant bacteria. So, it is always good to help build up their immunity, and let them fight off things naturally.

I appreciate your advice more than I can express!

 

[nuthatched]

It sounds like he aspirated. Do not massage a crop when they are choking, since it may force fluid and food back up into the airway. He may have MG instead of coryza. Coryza stinks as well as causing more severe symptoms. Testing is the only way to know which. Either disease will affect any other chickens in your flock, since he will be a carrier. Then you would have to close your flock, and never sell or give away birds or hatching eggs. People should not sell you a bird with a respiratory disease. I would return him.

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Even if you vaccinate your other birds, they may become carriers too. Return or cull + burn/bury.