Chick with runny nose / congestion / sneezing?

[Aziara]

I got in the final report.

They DID NOT test for infectious bronchitis or infectious coryza, even though I specifically mentioned those when I dropped off the body. I may have to see about getting my flock NPIP tested, as that should let me know if they are carriers of...whatever the heck this was.

So all I know is what they DON'T have (in addition to what I mentioned in an earlier post, they also had negative salmonella results), which is frustrating. All they found was the Aeromonas, which from what it looks like, requires something to first weaken the immune system.

Whatever it is, it looks like quail can get it too. One of my cotournix had a swollen head/eye for several days, though now it looks like she's getting better.
The last chicken to not have it, the other silkie chick, now has clear discharge from the nose and occasionally will sneeze.
What does coryza smell like? If I didn't know better, I'd say this chick has 'doggy breath'. But if none of my other birds had or have 'bad breath'. Isn't the smell a major symptom that is always there if it is coryza?

At this point I'm thinking it was infectious bronchitis....

The half-silkie chick that started this whole mess is still sneezing like crazy, and occasionally scratches at his/her ears and cries out like it hurts (stuffy ears??). Sometimes his/her nose runs (with no odor, I think I should mention). S/he isn't growing that I can tell, while the other chick put on 2 ounces in the last week, s/he didn't put on any. S/he is eating heartily though.
My adult chickens outside are now doing just fine, and my two girls are now laying. Other than freckles (Bielefelders don't usually have freckled eggs) the eggs look healthy.

 

[Eggcessive]

Make sure that your NPIP tester can test for those diseases first. Most NPIP is just testing for pullorum/salmonella, and not for the respiratory diseases. Your state vet may be able to help in finding testing. People think that buying from an NPIP breeder is safe, but it doesn't mean much if they haven't tested for respiratory diseases and only get it done once a year. I once bought a few chickens from a woman who was NPIP, but the tester was coming later that day ( and had not tested since a year before.). She also told me as I was leaving that one of the hens had been missing for almost a month, and had just showed back up. Needless to say, that was my first and last time buying chickens from anyone but a hatchery. Again in this link there are symptoms of most of the common respiratory diseases: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044