Emergency sneezing/cough

mandapanda85

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We had another of our chickens start doing this and when we went out the next morning she was dead. We currently have the whole flock on duramycin 10 and we took the one that previously died to the state ag lab for a necropsy but we won't even get the preliminary results for at least a week. Our babies are dropping like flies and we can't figure out why. In the past week we've lost 2 Polish and a red laced blue wyandotte that were approximately a month or 2 old. Any help would be appreciated! It won't let me post a video so I posted on my Facebook and I hope it'll be able to be viewed https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159061116825175&id=629780174
 
We've got a pretty open coop that's mostly covered so they don't get wet when it rains and they free range during the day. Pardon the mess we're in the middle of making seperate pens inside the coop for quarantine and we acquired the old bathtub to make them a pool.
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If you can post your video to youtube and give us a link that would be helpful.

What symptoms are you seeing - coughing, sneezing, runny nose, discharge from the eyes, labored breathing, etc.
What type of food/treats are you feeding?
What does the poop look like?
Are these new additions to your flock?

There are several respiratory diseases with similar symptoms, so it's good that you're having a necropsy performed - hopefully this will give you more information.

Do the best you can to keep them drinking, make the Duramycin10 the only source of water available. Antibiotics won't cure respiratory illness, but can help with secondary infections.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044
 
They get starter grower with layer. They're aged from about a year old to best guess about a month old. We called our chicken lady we were buying from and she recommended getting Tylan and starting injections of 1/2cc for juvenile and 1cc for the adults and I called around and finally found someone that carried it 3 mins before they closed so I paid over the phone and they left the bag in front of the store for me. The chicken in the video that was sneezing got an I junction last night and she seems right as rain today. Their poops are all solid and normal color and they're all eating fine. We've already made the only water available dosed so we know they're getting it. That's what has had us baffled they seem fine then the next morning when we go to let them out were finding one dead just about everyday for the past week. Aside from it being heartbreaking because they're our pets not food it's getting very expensive because the ones that seem to be dying off on us are our expensive birds like the different Polish, red laced blue wyandotte and our chocolate cuckoo maran. Our chicken lady told us a lot of people are having problems right now bc it's been in the 90s and raining everyday so the ground is staying wet and we need to get them off the ground until they get over it so we went and bought a truckload of lumber and rolls of wire to make pens that are off the ground and so we can seperate them by like kinds.
 
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