Fowl pocks? Eye full of puss.

[jillcg]

I am a complete newby to raising chickens. About 5 weeks ago I purchased 3 Americuanas, and was told they should start laying in about 2 to 3 month. One week later one of them started drooling and had a slimy beak. I also discovered some crusty, bumby scabs on it's beak and a couple underneath one eye. I put all 3 chicks on Antibiotics, and the drooling and the slimy beak were gone. It's been about 3 1/2 weeks now and one eye is swollen and filled with puss, I attached a picture. The other 2 chickens seem to be uneffected by all of this. I seperated the sick one yesterday. It's still eating and drinking, but I don't think it grew at all, while the 2 others definetly got bigger. I have no idea what I should do, or what this could be. I thought it had fowl pox and that they usually go away by itself, but this seems to be something different now.

 

[Eggcessive]

It looks like coryza, but you would have to get testing or a necropsy done to be sure. It sounds like they were getting sock when you got them, probably from a disease they brought with them. With fowl pox, there can be secondary infections including respiratory diseases and E.coli. You can treat it with antibiotics, but those chickens will probably be carriers of whatever disease.

 

[jillcg]

So does it even make sense to isolate the one chicken? Does it mean if I get another chicken it will most likely get sick as well? The other 2 don't show any symptoms. Should I keep giving antibiotics to all of them? Can I give the antobiotics for more than 2 weeks? Is it ok to leave the eye alone?

 

[Eggcessive]

It certainly can't hurt.