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Songster
Symptoms: Note - not all birds have all symptoms. The eye symptoms are the most obvious.
Eye Symptoms - Around eyes: loss of feathers, skin thickening, crustiness, swollen, some of them have eyes crusted shut.
Respiratory - Some have raspy breathing, some with & some without eye symptoms.
Some have a bit of discharge from the nostrils but not much.
Digestive - I've noticed a loose stool in a couple of hens, but nothing drastic.
All are eating & drinking fine. Most show no symptoms except the loss of feathers around the eyes. No new birds have been introduced to the flock. No change in feed. Not all birds are affected. I have large pens, some connected & some not. There seems to be 1 or 2 symtomatic birds in most pens, but not all.
I have some Tylan injectible ordered but probably won't be here until the end of the week. I just finished dosing most of the flock with Eprinex (which was when I started noticing all the different symptoms) & noticed that some sick birds had lice & others did not. I have isolated the worst cases from the others & some of them actually seem to be looking better.
Not sure if this has anything to do with what is going on, but I have had 3 birds that were recently sick. (1) Rooster had crusty eyes but no feather loss around them. He also had a loss of balance. Isolated him & fed bunches of yogurt & he improved greatly. (2) A young hen had loss of balance & was very thin. Again, lots of yogurt several times a day. Within a week she was completely well & back in the flock. (3) A nice young rooster, loss of weight, runny stool. I used the yogurt which he took readily at first then quit eating & was dead within 24 hrs.
I have googled symptoms & been on tons of internet sites trying to find an answer to this. Any input that any of you might have will be totally welcome.
One last thing, if Tylan is the answer, what would be the correct dosage for Silkies & where do I inject? I ordered the Tylan off the internet & it says injectible but doesn't need refrigeration so I'm guessing that I have to mix it myself, but not sure.
Sorry for the long message but wanted to be sure & cover as many points as possible. Thanks for reading.
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Eye Symptoms - Around eyes: loss of feathers, skin thickening, crustiness, swollen, some of them have eyes crusted shut.
Respiratory - Some have raspy breathing, some with & some without eye symptoms.
Some have a bit of discharge from the nostrils but not much.
Digestive - I've noticed a loose stool in a couple of hens, but nothing drastic.
All are eating & drinking fine. Most show no symptoms except the loss of feathers around the eyes. No new birds have been introduced to the flock. No change in feed. Not all birds are affected. I have large pens, some connected & some not. There seems to be 1 or 2 symtomatic birds in most pens, but not all.
I have some Tylan injectible ordered but probably won't be here until the end of the week. I just finished dosing most of the flock with Eprinex (which was when I started noticing all the different symptoms) & noticed that some sick birds had lice & others did not. I have isolated the worst cases from the others & some of them actually seem to be looking better.
Not sure if this has anything to do with what is going on, but I have had 3 birds that were recently sick. (1) Rooster had crusty eyes but no feather loss around them. He also had a loss of balance. Isolated him & fed bunches of yogurt & he improved greatly. (2) A young hen had loss of balance & was very thin. Again, lots of yogurt several times a day. Within a week she was completely well & back in the flock. (3) A nice young rooster, loss of weight, runny stool. I used the yogurt which he took readily at first then quit eating & was dead within 24 hrs.
I have googled symptoms & been on tons of internet sites trying to find an answer to this. Any input that any of you might have will be totally welcome.
One last thing, if Tylan is the answer, what would be the correct dosage for Silkies & where do I inject? I ordered the Tylan off the internet & it says injectible but doesn't need refrigeration so I'm guessing that I have to mix it myself, but not sure.
Sorry for the long message but wanted to be sure & cover as many points as possible. Thanks for reading.
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