- May 10, 2016
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Hi! I hope someone can help my girl Margie. She is a I young cochin hen (about 1 1/2 yr old) that is having a hard time breathing and has to open her mouth to do so. Periodically she sneezes as if trying to clear her sinuses but it is a dry sneeze. Eyes are clear, nares are clean, clear and dry. No smell. No discharge anywhere. Reasonably normal acting, a little lethargic but still eating and drinking. Mostly just struggling to breathe which makes a raspy nasal sound.
I first noticed a week or so ago when her voice sounded very nasally, like a person with a sinus infection. But now she is breathing loudly like a wheeze and has her beak slightly open. Again nares clean and clear. So assuming respiratory infection, I started her on Tylan 50 injections, .05 ml per day in the breast muscle. By day 4 she was very objectionable to the shot from soreness so I gave 2 days of an oral dose. No change in symptoms. So I started Baytril .50 ml and am 3 days in still with no change.
My flock was wormed 6 weeks ago with Valbazen, and I gave two doses 14 days apart so I cant imagine it being gape worm.
The weather here has been erratic, warm and then very cold and although free ranged during the day this girl is quite the pet and stays on the porch or by the house most of the day. She was in fact broody when this began. She keeps to herself always independent of the other birds as she prefers the company of people rather than the other chickens. None of my other birds are showing any symptoms of anything at this time.
A few of my younger birds did have some pox last month but it was uneventful and all have recovered without any problems. Out if a flock of 30 maybe 4 had it. Only the young girls.
Could this one have wet pox? I am afraid she is going to suffocate! I have her in the house which she prefers anyway but I honestly cant sleep at night listening to her struggle to breathe. Margie is like one of my kids!
I have Gail Damerows book on chicken health but cannot seem to figure out what Im dealing with given that I have no dramatic signs of anything, no discharges or bad smells, nothing other than the breathing issue and nasal sounding noise she makes when she breathes. Can anybody help me with Margie? PLEASE
I first noticed a week or so ago when her voice sounded very nasally, like a person with a sinus infection. But now she is breathing loudly like a wheeze and has her beak slightly open. Again nares clean and clear. So assuming respiratory infection, I started her on Tylan 50 injections, .05 ml per day in the breast muscle. By day 4 she was very objectionable to the shot from soreness so I gave 2 days of an oral dose. No change in symptoms. So I started Baytril .50 ml and am 3 days in still with no change.
My flock was wormed 6 weeks ago with Valbazen, and I gave two doses 14 days apart so I cant imagine it being gape worm.
The weather here has been erratic, warm and then very cold and although free ranged during the day this girl is quite the pet and stays on the porch or by the house most of the day. She was in fact broody when this began. She keeps to herself always independent of the other birds as she prefers the company of people rather than the other chickens. None of my other birds are showing any symptoms of anything at this time.
A few of my younger birds did have some pox last month but it was uneventful and all have recovered without any problems. Out if a flock of 30 maybe 4 had it. Only the young girls.
Could this one have wet pox? I am afraid she is going to suffocate! I have her in the house which she prefers anyway but I honestly cant sleep at night listening to her struggle to breathe. Margie is like one of my kids!
I have Gail Damerows book on chicken health but cannot seem to figure out what Im dealing with given that I have no dramatic signs of anything, no discharges or bad smells, nothing other than the breathing issue and nasal sounding noise she makes when she breathes. Can anybody help me with Margie? PLEASE
