Crusty Eyes

[martinnoah]

Hi, I have 2 pullets and 2 cockrels with mucus in their eyes. It started about 3 days ago and most of my BCM's have it. They all have a strange cough. I have been giving them eye drops, but it is not helping much. If anyone has any suggestions please tell. Also if they're any home remedies, that would be great.

Thanks

 

[War Chicken]

Very likely Mycoplasma gallisepticum. You'll need antibiotics. Tiamulin, tylosin, or doxycycline. The latter has some preparation requirements for best results.

 

[Eggcessive]

Tiamulin is Denagard which is hard to get hold of unless ordering it online--I think QC supply sells it, and it's rather costly. Tylosin is Tylan, and Tylan 50 runs about $12 at my farm store. Doxycycline requires a prescription online where I checked.

 

[War Chicken]

You can get tiamulin for pigeons as chevimulin-t off of eBay. Doxycycline is OTC for fish and birds.

http://www.octagon-services.co.uk/articles/mycoplasma_sensitivity.htm

Check out Table 1.

 

[martinnoah]

thank-you, I will look into it.

 

[martinnoah]

I keep looking on BYC and found that giving them chick starter might help. So hopefully it will help.

 

[dawg53]

I keep looking on BYC and found that giving them chick starter might help. So hopefully it will help.

Chick starter wont do anything against mycoplasma diseases or any other respiratory diseases for that matter. If in fact it is MG, denagard is the what you need to treat it or cull your sick birds.
Here's a link to poultry diseases. Scroll down and read about Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG,) also read about Infectious Bronchitis (IB) and Infectious Coryza.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044