?Chicken with a cold

[girliesmum]

I've had chickens for exactly 4 days and know very little. My Black Rock seems to have a cold, she's fine in herself, bright, alert, eating and drinking but she has a "snotty" beak and I've heard her sneeze a couple of times.
The other two are fine.
Please help

 

[Eggcessive]

Your hen probably has a respiratory disease. Chickens don't have "colds" but bacterial and viral diseases. Many unscrupulous people will sell birds from infected flocks at swap meets to people who don't know what to look for. You can treat them with drugs such as Tylan, Duramycin10, and Albon depending on what disease you have. Maybe best to take them back if possible. Here are some links to click on for more info: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044 and http://pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-2113/

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

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