cough/cold. gota help me out here

[jkcove08]

I had a young turkey get a respitory infection a while back. One thing I want to say first is that it was in with other birds and none of the others caught it. He had a lot of drainage and his face swelled way up around his eyes. I posted on the other board and a member said to give an injection of Tylon 50. 1/4 cc total, half into each puffy area under the eye. Then repeat after 2 days. I did that and amazingly he was better about 4 days later, the swelling was gone and no more drainage. This is for cattle but worked great for him too. I also just gave a silkie chicken a injection yesterday after I realized he had been attacked by a couple rats and one eye was swollen shut and the other side was bloody. I washed him up and gave him an injection of about 2/ 10th of a cc in the neck area and by this morning he was feeling much better. The swelling was going down on the one eye and the other was open and looked great. I wouls say try a 1/4 cc injection in the neck area and 2 days later try again. Jenn

 

[johnnyjack]

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Yes, IF another passes I'd definately have a necropsy done.

i guess clemson univ- would be the closest place near me im near spartanburg sc.but i hope to get a hold on it befor i lose another. the one with it now is a roo about 12 weeks old looks just like his dad my avatar.i wonder if i took a fecal sample to a vet they could find out what it is???

 

[nccountrygirl]

i guess clemson univ- would be the closest place near me


Johnnyjack, bite your tongue when you say those two evil words and you know what they are, don't ya?.

 

[johnnyjack]

game cocks naaaaaaaaaaclemson tigers i dont know nccg

 

[picklespickles]

good luck with this

 

[nccountrygirl]

Yep those are the words. Are you a tiger fan johnnyjack? My BIL graduated from there soooo........... my sister has become a traitor, she has all these little tiger thingy's all over her house, how nauseating.

 

[johnnyjack]

yep im a tiger fan... like chickens but not gamecocks lol anyway ask around people help me out here. some of the older people should know what to do.

 

[nccountrygirl]

I hope you get some help soon.

 

[johnnyjack]

ok talked to peter brown he said the pen chlor is good to try. vet said to use pen chlor for 5 days in feed . well i did that and now iv got another one coughing sneezing. only thing i know is to call clemson univ- and see if i can get some help. if not i will keep trying untill they get better or all die. the bad thing is iv got 14 eggs in the bator who if its air born will be exspossed to the same thing. i have done alot of reading on this and lots of times it say to just destroy the flock wait 90 days and start over. its hard to decide what to do...i never thought i would end up in this type of situation with a small backyard flock.

 

[Queen of the Lilliputians]

Just a thought here..

Do a search for CRD or Chronic Respiratory Disease. I'm not an expert.. but from what I understand they will be carriers of it, but will only show any symptoms (watery irritated eyes, sneezing, drippy noses, cold symptoms basically) when they are stressed. Then they'll be fine for awhile.. another stressor (cold, heat, new chicken, whatever) and another outbreak. I don't really know how fatal it is though? Mostly just treating for secondary infections, since once your chickens have it, they have it for life.

I hope you don't have to destroy your flock! That would be horrible!

Good luck.

Meghan