Coughing, Sneezing, Squawk

[lmdengler]

Good Morning All
Upstate NY has had some crazy weather. First super hot, very humid, now just extra warm, very humid and VERY WET! We have had rain every day for nearly 2 weeks (only with minor breaks here and there) to to such a degree the threat for flash flood is up every day. First I noticed one chicken sneeze and seem a little coughy. Then another, now there are several. Yesterday - Bob the rooster seemed extremely weak. He had been slowing down some but yesterday he hardly came out of the coop. I brought him in the house and started hand feeding him, gave him Poly Vi Sol and some Terramycin and he is perking up. The red color came back to his comb (it was blue on the tips). Handfeeding and eye droppers of poly vi sol would be hard to do with the remaining 27 chickens. I don't know what to do. Egg production dropped. Not severely - but did some. One young pullet who has been faithfully laying every day (she lays the dark brown maran eggs) has stopped. She sits in the nest. Any thoughts on what I should do?

 

[Eggcessive]

It sounds a bit like they could have infectious bronchitis, a respiratory disease that can cause sneezing every few minutes and slow down egg laying. It is a virus, does not require antibiotics unless it is complicated by secondary infection, and usually lasts about a month. You could try to get a couple tested, just to make sure it is not a more serious disease like MG or others. Chickens with IB can remain carriers up to 5 months to a year after the last affected chicken recovers, so it is best not to hatch or add new chickens for at least a year.

 

[anna-newhampshire]

How are they now? I'm sorry I didn't see this when you posted.

I am sure I can make a homeopathic remedy recommendation. Please post if you want details (the whole song and dance about the power of homeopathy lol).

 

[lmdengler]

I would live to know! They are actually doing pretty well. For 4 days I gave them each (all
27 of them) Poly Vi Sol drops 2 times a day. Then just 1 x day for a day or two so more. That was quite a feat! I found doing it at night and before they woke up worked best. I also put vitamins and electrolytes in their water. In a few days everyone turned a corner and now (knock on wood) everyone seems great! I thought I might lose Bob the rooster but he looks good as ever! I’m not sure if it was the poly vi sol or vitamins and electrolytes water - or whatever ran its course. I’m just thankful they are all ok.

 

[Eggcessive]

That is good that they are doing well. Hopefully, it is jsuat a virus, and they will soon be back to normal.

 

[anna-newhampshire]

27 little patients treated individually! Not only setting the alarm at dawn, but actually getting out of bed to administer their morning treatment!
Do they all have names?

If I wouldn't have missed your thread and offered homeopathic advice (a remedy to dissolve in their water) would you have been interested? What do you think of the song and dance I composed, would you help me refine it?

Conventional medicine is not the only hen that can lay an egg. There are other capable gals: acupuncture, osteopathy, naturopathy and...homeopathy. Hippocrates himself used homeopathic principles as his method of healing. Well-informed and well-to-do people like the royals in UK use homeopathy today. The queen mother died aged almost 102, the queen and her husband are advancing in their nineties (and late nineties respectively) and are healthy. Doesn't look like a coincidence. The queen of England, with all the ACCESS TO INFORMATION that she has, wants to be treated with... homeopathy. Our backyard flocks deserve the royal treatment too.
The homeopathic remedy costs aprox $8 and depending where you buy it, the shipping can be free (I just checked). I am not affiliated with anyone/anything, not making/asking for any money. A consultation with a homeopathic practitioner costs something in the three figures. I am not a professional but I'm far from a garden-variety amateur. And I don't interfere if I am not sure that I have a homeopathic remedy that is a good fit.

Lol, even after posting the above heartfelt plea (in other threads), I only got... crickets. What could be going on?

 

[dawg53]

There is a difference between humans and birds. Comparing how long a human lives vs a bird is like comparing apples and oranges. What may work in a human may not necessarily work in a bird.
I'm sure if Hippocrates was around today he would gladly take a couple aspirins to relieve headache pain.
Here are other things to consider about birds and medications:
Human and bird specific medications have been thoroughly tested for effectiveness, side effects, dosages, contraindications with other medications and non medications; and for chickens whether withdrawal periods are required or not tested at all.

Homeopathic remedies may or may not work in humans. Only the person using them can tell us that, a bird cant.
My experience with homeopathic remedies are that they do not work and I can prove it.

Regarding chickens; do homeopathic remedies have contraindications with vitamins and minerals in feed or medications in feed such as low doses of amprolium? How does these remedies interact with calcium in the chickens diet? What about dosages and known or unknown withdrawal periods, and have they been tested with birds showing test results?

You mentioned a remedy to be mixed in water, what are the ingredients in the remedy so I can look them up in my PDR for the safety, health and welfare of my birds and everyone else's birds?