I'm not sure where to begin so I'll give the symptoms and then the time line. The hens and roo were sneezing, with heavy moisture around the face but no discharge from the nostrils that was noticeable. Only one chicken had watery looking eyes, there were a few with runny/watery droppings that were darker than normal but no blood could be found in any of the droppings I inspected. My rooster was the worst off as far as I could tell, he could hardly breathe and sounded like a toad when he crowed.
This all started after a coyote had found his way onto our property and decided to go on a spree, the weather at the time started to push the upper 90's which is warm here for western Washington, and i was unable to clean the pile of droppings that accumulates under the roost in a timely manner which is usually changed weekly. We had also just moved chicks into a cordoned off section of the room to be raised around the hens and still have separation between the two sets of birds however I did wait about 5 weeks before moving them in with the older birds.
These are the only variables that I can think of that would elicit stress from the poor birds that all occurred within about a week and halves time. Being in western Washington any time outside of summer is rather wet occasionally the coop would get wet and soak into the bedding however we always had heat lamps/turned the bedding to dry and changed the bedding every couple weeks.
I suspected CRD or some other respiratory infection that was going to require me to cull my flock (I really dont know all that much about chicken diseases illness or otherwise.)
But now there are no symptoms at all other than one chicken has slightly runny droppings. There is no wheezing, sneezing or coughing sounds coming from any of the birds. The roosters crow is back to normal and through out all of this all hens but one had normal active behavior. I would like to be able to keep all my hens alive and well but we do sell our eggs and our neighbors have chickens. I do not know whether my chickens are sick and if this can be passed through the eggs and I definitely do not want to cause another flock to become diseased by keeping potentially sick birds around. I'm at a loss of what is going on and would appreciate all help.
This all started after a coyote had found his way onto our property and decided to go on a spree, the weather at the time started to push the upper 90's which is warm here for western Washington, and i was unable to clean the pile of droppings that accumulates under the roost in a timely manner which is usually changed weekly. We had also just moved chicks into a cordoned off section of the room to be raised around the hens and still have separation between the two sets of birds however I did wait about 5 weeks before moving them in with the older birds.
These are the only variables that I can think of that would elicit stress from the poor birds that all occurred within about a week and halves time. Being in western Washington any time outside of summer is rather wet occasionally the coop would get wet and soak into the bedding however we always had heat lamps/turned the bedding to dry and changed the bedding every couple weeks.
I suspected CRD or some other respiratory infection that was going to require me to cull my flock (I really dont know all that much about chicken diseases illness or otherwise.)
But now there are no symptoms at all other than one chicken has slightly runny droppings. There is no wheezing, sneezing or coughing sounds coming from any of the birds. The roosters crow is back to normal and through out all of this all hens but one had normal active behavior. I would like to be able to keep all my hens alive and well but we do sell our eggs and our neighbors have chickens. I do not know whether my chickens are sick and if this can be passed through the eggs and I definitely do not want to cause another flock to become diseased by keeping potentially sick birds around. I'm at a loss of what is going on and would appreciate all help.
