chicken coughing/sneezing

[girls and guineas]

What to do for chickens coughing/sneezing?? Sound congested!!

 

[dawg53]

What to do for chickens coughing/sneezing?? Sound congested!!

If it's not an environmental issue such as your birds inhaling feed dust, ammonia fumes from soiled bedding, pollen, yard fertilizers etc...then most likely it's a respiratory disease. If this is the case and you want to treat, a blood sample or necropsy will have to done to find out what disease it is. Birds with respiratory disease can be treated, but not cured of the disease. There are different strains of diseases to deal with as well. Survivors will be carriers for life and will pass it on to other birds including newbies. Some diseases can be passed into the egg, into chicks and spread in that manner. You must maintain a closed flock. Otherwise I recommend that you cull the sick birds. Here's a link to poultry diseases. Read up on Infectious Bronchitis (IB,) Infectious Coryza, and Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG.)
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044

 

[dkosh]

If it's not an environmental issue such as your birds inhaling feed dust, ammonia fumes from soiled bedding, pollen, yard fertilizers etc...then most likely it's a respiratory disease. If this is the case and you want to treat, a blood sample or necropsy will have to done to find out what disease it is. Birds with respiratory disease can be treated, but not cured of the disease. There are different strains of diseases to deal with as well. Survivors will be carriers for life and will pass it on to other birds including newbies. Some diseases can be passed into the egg, into chicks and spread in that manner. You must maintain a closed flock. Otherwise I recommend that you cull the sick birds. Here's a link to poultry diseases. Read up on Infectious Bronchitis (IB,) Infectious Coryza, and Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG.)
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044

Thank you dawg53, I noticed respiratory symptoms in my flock and this link was great help.