Acting weak, gurgling.

[HappyDuckie]

hows he doing today?

He’s doing better.

 

[Myrshine]

Everyone always jumps to antibiotics and don’t get me wrong, it helps some people, but it’s not always a great option to go. Over use of antibiotics creates antibiotic resistant bacteria as well as sometimes causing death. This is why most farm stores, TSC, Rural King, Family Farm and Home, etc.
To me and in my experience with gurgling in chickens, it sounds like Infectious Laryngotracheitis Virus (ILTV) or possibly Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG/CRD). MG is a serious life long bacterial infection of poultry. ILTV is even more serious than MG and other respiratory diseases, mostly because it is fast acting and a virus. Viruses are not treatable, meaning that antibiotics will not help your situationBoth of these diseases are chronic, meaning that symptoms can go away and reappear at anytime, especially if they get stressed. All asymptomatic birds are lifetime carriers, spreading and shedding these diseases from their feces, dander, feathers, respiratory secretions and other bodily fluids. I also highly recommend that you NEVER breed from your sick birds, because the MG bacteria and the ILTV virus can spread to the offspring from the infected parents to the developing embryo, making any chicks that happen to hatch, will be already sick with the bacteria and/or virus and the cycle starts over again. It is best to keep a closed flock- meaning that you shouldn’t bring in anymore birds to your infected flock and don’t let any birds leave your sick flock. If you choose not to cull your birds for MG, let them live their lives, until they pass away by themselves. If it’s ILTV please don’t let them suffer, my birds had this and watching them suffocate to death is worse than anything, I highly recommend culling a ILTV positive flock. I would highly suggest and recommend that you cull the sickest bird and send it off for a necropsy test. It is critical in poultry to get your sick birds tested because most of these diseases can be serious and/or fatal.

Here’s two great places where you can either send out a live sample or a necropsy sample:
https://www.zoologix.com/avian/index.htm
http://www.vetdna.com

Here’s more information about MG: https://extension.umd.edu/sites/ext... Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) Infecti....pdf

Here’s more information about ILTV: https://extension.umd.edu/sites/ext...programs/poultry/ILT Know the Symptoms....pdf

Also, I must add that just because the articles say this or that about symptoms, that doesn’t mean all symptoms will show with either disease. My birds had both MG and ILTV, never showed coughing up blood or mucus. Keep that in mind.

 

[HappyDuckie]

Everyone always jumps to antibiotics and don’t get me wrong, it helps some people, but it’s not always a great option to go. Over use of antibiotics creates antibiotic resistant bacteria as well as sometimes causing death. This is why most farm stores, TSC, Rural King, Family Farm and Home, etc.
To me and in my experience with gurgling in chickens, it sounds like Infectious Laryngotracheitis Virus (ILTV) or possibly Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG/CRD). MG is a serious life long bacterial infection of poultry. ILTV is even more serious than MG and other respiratory diseases, mostly because it is fast acting and a virus. Viruses are not treatable, meaning that antibiotics will not help your situationBoth of these diseases are chronic, meaning that symptoms can go away and reappear at anytime, especially if they get stressed. All asymptomatic birds are lifetime carriers, spreading and shedding these diseases from their feces, dander, feathers, respiratory secretions and other bodily fluids. I also highly recommend that you NEVER breed from your sick birds, because the MG bacteria and the ILTV virus can spread to the offspring from the infected parents to the developing embryo, making any chicks that happen to hatch, will be already sick with the bacteria and/or virus and the cycle starts over again. It is best to keep a closed flock- meaning that you shouldn’t bring in anymore birds to your infected flock and don’t let any birds leave your sick flock. If you choose not to cull your birds for MG, let them live their lives, until they pass away by themselves. If it’s ILTV please don’t let them suffer, my birds had this and watching them suffocate to death is worse than anything, I highly recommend culling a ILTV positive flock. I would highly suggest and recommend that you cull the sickest bird and send it off for a necropsy test. It is critical in poultry to get your sick birds tested because most of these diseases can be serious and/or fatal.

Here’s two great places where you can either send out a live sample or a necropsy sample:
https://www.zoologix.com/avian/index.htm
http://www.vetdna.com

Here’s more information about MG: https://extension.umd.edu/sites/extension.umd.edu/files/_docs/programs/poultry/FS-1008 Recognizing and Preventing Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) Infecti....pdf

Here’s more information about ILTV: https://extension.umd.edu/sites/extension.umd.edu/files/_docs/programs/poultry/ILT Know the Symptoms....pdf

Also, I must add that just because the articles say this or that about symptoms, that doesn’t mean all symptoms will show with either disease. My birds had both MG and ILTV, never showed coughing up blood or mucus. Keep that in mind.

Thank you. He is acting back to normal now, after being treated with antibiotics, and no other birds are showing any symptoms of anything.

 

[ackie]

Thank you. He is acting back to normal now, after being treated with antibiotics, and no other birds are showing any symptoms of anything.

make sure you finish out the course of antibiotics