Entire flock struggling!

[ChickenCanoe]

...I read that once you send your chicken to lab and get information back it's often too late but I will give them a call today and see what they say.

It is preferable to not knowing what they had in the first place. And what you need to do to the housing or even if you can ever keep birds on the property again.

Well I finished 5 day injections with Tylon and decided to start tetra in their drinking water. Only 3 have respiratory symptoms at this point and they are quarantined, the others are just lethargic and stand around like zombies....

The problem with medicating before one knows what is afflicting the birds is that if a necropsy follows, the results can be rendered inconclusive by the meds.
A surprisingly small percentage of things that could be wrong can be cured with antibiotics.

 

[jocoker]

Thank you, too late I guess as they have been on antibiotics. They are doing better and no more deaths knock on wood. Acting more and more like themselves incrementally every day. Thanks for the support, all!

 

[babsi]

I'm so new to chickens, but here is my story. Got chicks born on 8/19. All five normal. Then two days ago one started sneezing and wheezing came shortly after. I was clueless and breeder gave me corid, which doesn't do anything for respiratory I found out. Yesterday chick was much worse and gasping for air and there was nothing I could do. She died during the night. I'm watching the others closely. Yesterday they kept shaking their heads. It was odd. No sneezing sounds. I contacted another barn close to me last night and she gave me a bag of de earth. I added it to the food, she said 50/50 which I now read is too much, but the chicks are shaking their heads less. I have NO idea what the chick had and my best husnpband ever disposed of the dead chick before I could see it. All I know is whatever she had moved fast!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Thank you, too late I guess as they have been on antibiotics. They are doing better and no more deaths knock on wood. Acting more and more like themselves incrementally every day. Thanks for the support, all!

Usually a virus is something they just have to get over on their own.

I'm so new to chickens, but here is my story. Got chicks born on 8/19. All five normal. Then two days ago one started sneezing and wheezing came shortly after. I was clueless and breeder gave me corid, which doesn't do anything for respiratory I found out. Yesterday chick was much worse and gasping for air and there was nothing I could do. She died during the night. I'm watching the others closely. Yesterday they kept shaking their heads. It was odd. No sneezing sounds. I contacted another barn close to me last night and she gave me a bag of de earth. I added it to the food, she said 50/50 which I now read is too much, but the chicks are shaking their heads less. I have NO idea what the chick had and my best husnpband ever disposed of the dead chick before I could see it. All I know is whatever she had moved fast!

So they're 2 weeks old. That's pretty young for a respiratory disease. It could be dust. What are the conditions under which they are kept? Is there plenty of ventilation? Is it too hot in the brooder? Large enough to have both cool and warm space?

 

[babsi]

Set up in garage. Three cardboard boxes. Two lights attached to two boxes, third has food and drink in it. All boxes are connected. So far rest of the chicks look good. I keep checking and got tetracycline yesterday in case it starts again. They have room to escape the lights and I have a thermometer in there. Today is two week bday. I want to add two more chicks since they are still small, but will wait a week to see if everyone should healthy