free little hen with big eye infection

[orangecharger7]

A lady gave me a red hen with eye puss the size of a golf ball... I put this great med. i got in her eye socket every day for two weeks and the eye socket completely healed and she is now getting along fine with only one eye.the stuff is called : live stock medicine PURE SULFA...I listed it on ebay if anyone wants to try it...excellent non antibiotic anti bacterial medicine....

 

[Eggcessive]

Sulfa is a sulfa drug which is also an antibiotic, probably the same as Sulmet. Your little chicken may have coryza, and that is a bad respiratory disease. You should not give away that chicken, so matter how cute, because it will infect any other chickens it comes in to contact with. Coryza is a carrier disease, and it is never cured--symptoms may go away for awhile, but it is still there. You need to keep this chicken or cull it.

 

[orangecharger7]

WOW you really called that one correct.....i already lost two other chickens with similar symptoms; a silky and another red hen... and others are gurgling.. im going to tractor supply to get that tylenol injectable... medicine....thanks alot....eddie

 

[Eggcessive]

Tylan can treat coryza, but the better treatment is sulfadimethoxine (brand name Dim-Methox, Albon, or Sulfamed G.) This one is harder to find, but you can get it online: http://www.jefferspet.com/di-methox-soluble/camid/LIV/cp/A2-DA/

Sulmet can be used but is hard on their kidneys.

 

[orangecharger7]

sulfadimethox i believe has trimethoprime in it which has horific side affects includeing coma...the pure sulfa is a hundred times better, but , thanks anyway !!!!

 

[Eggcessive]

Sulfadimethoxine is used extensively in chickens. I think you are referring to sulfamethoxazole: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole
Sulfa drugs all can be toxic to chickens, and some are worse than others, but coryza responds to sulfa drugs. According to most of the literature I have read, sulfadimethoxine (Di-Methox) is probably the safest.

 

[MyPetNugget]

Sorry about your chicken.