Chicken with SEVERE swelling in her sinus/and around the eye, PLEASE HELP IDK WHAT IT IS OR WHAT TO DO IS THIS CORYZA?

[Kalista Potter]

Jedds.com sellathe sulfa antibiotic as well as 10% enrofloxacin (Baytril.) I have had good luck ordering from them. I believe allbirdproducts is good as well, but have not ordered there. Dosage of 10% Baytril is 0.005 ml per piund of weight given twice daily for 5 days. That is 0.25 ml for a 5 pound chicken. Walmart and many pharmacies have needle-less 1 ml syringes to give babies and animals small dosages. That makes it easier to figure a dosage so small.
https://jedds.com/products/medicox-medpet
https://jedds.com/products/enrofloxacin-10

The pus usually needs to be expressed by gently squeezing the eyelid.

Ok thanks i do have many 1mls syringes(that are needleless so I'm ok with that part) so what would the rough dosage be for chicken that's bantam size (1kg) roughly (bantam)

Does this there for mean she needs 0.5ml twice a day for 5 days and is that being orally? Correct me if I'm wrong

And with the squeezing puss out how do i do that when its not exactly in her eye but more so lower below her eye underneath?

Will circle on a photo of what i mean down below

For easier explation I'll be having color coded circles for the photo:

Green circle: is the location where i can squeeze the sticky mucusly like liquid out from her sinus( colour is browny red) used to be Amber yellow) this mucus snot like liquid always returns back in little as 2-3hrs.

Red circle where the puss is softish/hard like won't move regardless, the location of where it is I'm unsure on how to remove it since its not in the eye and i don't want to hurt her any tips?
do i push it upwards (the puss towards her eye)?

Photo here of what im explaining

 

[Kalista Potter]

The antibiotics may help, but that pus has got to be taken care of. Keep working on getting her eye and choanal slit/sinus cleared of pus.

Its very hard to keep the puss clear when i can't acesss to it since its not the eye the puss is located its at the bottom of her eye i replied to someones message talking about where it is and the colored circles(red and green) see if you can find it it might give you some information of were the puss I'm talking about is.
And how would i clear the puss from her choanal slit I've used a cotton tip before but nothing shows/comes out?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Do you have vet care?

It may need to be lanced. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/sinus-surgeries-graphic-pictures-and-videos.1081076/

 

[Eggcessive]

I made an error in the dosage of enrofloxacin above and have corrected it. Dosage is 0.05 ml per pound given orally twice a day, not 0.005 or .5 ml That is 0.25 ml for a 5 pound chicken. Getting a general weight may help. Pressing on the swelling is what I would do, more that squeezing. @casportpony may be better at telling you how to express pus from the choanal slit. I do not know if you can press upward with a finger to get it out or not. I haven’t treated this before.

 

[Kalista Potter]

Do you have vet care?

It may need to be lanced. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/sinus-surgeries-graphic-pictures-and-videos.1081076/

Only up in Melbourne they specialize in birds

 

[Kalista Potter]

I made an error in the dosage of enrofloxacin above and have corrected it. Dosage is 0.05 ml per pound given orally twice a day, not 0.005 or .5 ml That is 0.25 ml for a 5 pound chicken. Getting a general weight may help. Pressing on the swelling is what I would do, more that squeezing. @casportpony may be better at telling you how to express pus from the choanal slit. I do not know if you can press upward with a finger to get it out or not. I haven’t treated this before.

Ok thanks ill keep pressing on it and see what happens and I've been using saline was in her eyes don't know if it will help but i can only try

 

[Kalista Potter]

Hello BYC,
these last three weeks have been quite hard as one of my chickens has a Severe swelling in her sinus as well as around her eye its gotten really bad to where inside her mouth her pallette has been pushed outwards (photos of her eye and everything will be down below).

Shes eating and drinkng fine it is however making it very difficult for her to see as she can barely see from her other eye and her pushed pallette is also making it difficult as well.
Her poos are definitely normal and is your standed white cap poo

She seems to have formed puss underneath her eye hard/yet it's soft to touch and i drain her nose and this liquid ( most likely the infection comes out of her neres) the color I'd describe it as would be amber yellow and lately its a browny red? She has alot of yellow like crustings over her face (the swollen side as well as her face that isn't) I have no clue what has caused it but i really would love help and information about this.

I should also note her peak was never crooked like untill she had gotten her swollen eye.

This is my first time dealing with a issue like this does anyone have any advice?
I've been giving her doxycyline and she has had over 6 days worth with no improvement does anyone know if this is coryza or something entirely treatment?

Can you be too late to treat coryza?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated,

i really need some information on this thanks BYC,
photos of her will be down below





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Would anyone know if amoxicillion would work with coryza?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Would anyone know if amoxicillion would work with coryza?

For Infectious Coryza you would want to treat with a Sulfa drug.
https://allbirdproducts.com/products/trimethoprim-sulfa-powder-generic

 

[Kalista Potter]

For Infectious Coryza you would want to treat with a Sulfa drug.
https://allbirdproducts.com/products/trimethoprim-sulfa-powder-generic

How would i get a hold of the sulfa drug and baytril when the all bird products website unfortunately doesn't ship here in Australia Vic it has been banned/ilegal

 

[dawg53]

How would i get a hold of the sulfa drug and baytril when the all bird products website unfortunately doesn't ship here in Australia Vic it has been banned/ilegal

You're going to have to search Australian websites that sell the products you need. Good luck.