richardfairlie
In the Brooder
- Jun 8, 2019
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Hi, I've had a respiratory illness running through my flock. I'm based in asia.
Symptoms watery nose, sneezing coughing. A couple have developed one eye closed. A couple smelt a little off. Some have had thick mucus. I have about 22 chickens. A couple have also developed black spots on their coombs.
I started first with respirax, antibacterial (etyromycin tilmicosin) 5 days, which did nothing, so I switched to doxylak forte (doxycycline hydrochloride colistin sulfate) 7 days. Some got better others didn't. So I gave them a few days break and then put them on baxidil se (sulfadimethroxine sodium trimethoprim).
Some have improved and recovered. Some it's just not shifting.
I have also supplemented with tumeric garlic fresh chilli (and probiotics in between antibiotics) if some have been worse than others I've also put the layer feeds into a mash with garlic tumeric and chilli and natural honey, for antivirals etc and they improve after.
Anyway, getting back to it. After 3 weeks of throwing everything I can at it and separating some bringing some into the house in cages in different rooms I still have sick chickens.
Today I'm taking them off baxidil as it's quite hard on them and even after 3 weeks medicine and quarantine one closed it's eye this morning and is lethargic.
I'm wondering avian pox? Maybe a mix of wet and dry.
So far I've had zero fatalities and it would be nice to keep it that way, but even I have 6 small quarantine cages and split my outside coop into 5 closed off sections there is no way to quarantine all 20 birds.
None are vaccinated
It's hard finding any poultry vet.
Pictures enclosed .
Native breed chickens under 1 year old mix of males and females sick males displaying in 2 noticable coombs black spots. But looks and sounds like respiratory illness.
One had a blood red eye partially closed, used a honey wash. Slowly improving.
Symptoms watery nose, sneezing coughing. A couple have developed one eye closed. A couple smelt a little off. Some have had thick mucus. I have about 22 chickens. A couple have also developed black spots on their coombs.
I started first with respirax, antibacterial (etyromycin tilmicosin) 5 days, which did nothing, so I switched to doxylak forte (doxycycline hydrochloride colistin sulfate) 7 days. Some got better others didn't. So I gave them a few days break and then put them on baxidil se (sulfadimethroxine sodium trimethoprim).
Some have improved and recovered. Some it's just not shifting.
I have also supplemented with tumeric garlic fresh chilli (and probiotics in between antibiotics) if some have been worse than others I've also put the layer feeds into a mash with garlic tumeric and chilli and natural honey, for antivirals etc and they improve after.
Anyway, getting back to it. After 3 weeks of throwing everything I can at it and separating some bringing some into the house in cages in different rooms I still have sick chickens.
Today I'm taking them off baxidil as it's quite hard on them and even after 3 weeks medicine and quarantine one closed it's eye this morning and is lethargic.
I'm wondering avian pox? Maybe a mix of wet and dry.
So far I've had zero fatalities and it would be nice to keep it that way, but even I have 6 small quarantine cages and split my outside coop into 5 closed off sections there is no way to quarantine all 20 birds.
None are vaccinated
It's hard finding any poultry vet.
Pictures enclosed .
Native breed chickens under 1 year old mix of males and females sick males displaying in 2 noticable coombs black spots. But looks and sounds like respiratory illness.
One had a blood red eye partially closed, used a honey wash. Slowly improving.
actually 2 of my sickest birds perked up this morning so I'll post more throughout the week
