Fungal Infections in Poultry...Often Mistaken for CRD/Mycoplasmosis

[Suzierd]

Hope your boy gets better All Ball, maybe its best to let things dry out. Do you see any mold or fungus in his environment? Have you brought in any new birds lately? Go out at night when he's sleeping and listen to his breathing, pick him up and carefully see if you feel anything stuck in his throat.

 

[Margie Mae]

This thread has been very helpful as one of my girls is showing signs of respiratory infection. Suspecting fungus as we mist to keep the chickens cool in our hot summer days that are 100+. I also may have inadvertently used some leaves and such that may have been carrying spores in the coop run. I will be looking for the Oxine at the local feed store to start treatment tomorrow.

 

[All Ball]

Hope your boy gets better All Ball, maybe its best to let things dry out. Do you see any mold or fungus in his environment? Have you brought in any new birds lately? Go out at night when he's sleeping and listen to his breathing, pick him up and carefully see if you feel anything stuck in his throat.

Thanks Suzierd for the advice! It was dry since a June hot spell, so moisture wasn't the issue - and I think the fungal spores become a problem when things dry out. I took your advice and tried to check out his throat, but alas, I don't seem to have the kind of roo others have who becomes docile and zombie-like at night - my boy got defensive. I will get some help and try again once we are done with a bad hot spell - this is not a good time to put him through a traumatic experience. Thanks once again.

 

[Treerooted]

Just wanted to add a thank you to this thread speckledhen
Can't say for sure that it's a fungal problem yet, but we've had an extremely wet summer, (hay was ready to bale in early July and it's only been dry enough lately to get it off now). We've now had one week of hot humid weather...so it seems conditions are ripe for this.
I've had one rooster with sneezing and open mouth breathing. A few hens had a sneeze here or there but nothing today. I've separated my rooster just in case (I have an extra coop), and will go from here.

(It also just so happens that I need to cull 3 roosters anyway...so it looks like he'll be the first one regardless.)

 

[haejungkim]

I just spoke to the poultry person at Biocide-the company that makes Oxine. He told me that activated oxine is not fda approved. However he has a lot of poultry people telling him that the activated version misted over live poultry has helped a lot of respiratory issues in his clients chickens. The proportions he told me was 3.25 ounces of oxine mixed with 2 teaspoons of activator (I used citric acid). Stir that well and leave covered for 10 minutes. Then dilute that with one gallon of water. I am desperate right now for my chickens so I am trying this method. I plan to mist them for 30 minutes.

 

[All Ball]

Hi folks,

FYI: Bio-Cide's website has been suspended - whatever that means. I think it means the website host is no longer hosting it, and it doesn't seem to have gone to another web host. That makes me think it has gone out of business....!!!

 

[Bugpreisler]

Thank you for this wonderful post speckled hen! I'm dealing with occasional wheezing/sneezing hens. Your percolator analogy is fitting at times. Symptoms are exhibited by some in warm weather (its been unusually humid as well). I treated with my flock of 5 with oxine and denagard. Everyone but one has seem to clear up. I thought it was the denegard that did it, so I retreated with denegard to the one hen a week later ( thinking maybe she didnt get enough meds). Her issue did not clear up even with TLC/yogurt. She has bouts of sneezing (some extremely violent I might add) and sometimes wheezing or girgling. Makes a gaping movement during a violent sneeze. Open mouth breatheing, and occasuinal runny poo. No one has ever had runny mucus, puffy face, or foul smelling breath. So I'm wondering if it is a fungal thing. Any thoughts?

I also considered something lodged somewhere but she is eating /drinking- tends to sneeze when eating or if I massage her crop.

I'll be treating her with oxine several times a day in hope's to clear things up.

I'm curious if anyone has seen a hen with a fungal infection violently sneeze?

Will unactivated oxine breating treatments treat something other than a fungal infection?



Lots of love,
-Rebecca

 

[dawg53]

Keep in mind that surviving birds of most respiratory diseases are carriers for life. Stress can cause symptoms to reappear often.
Monthly maintenance dosing with denagard should keep mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) in check, IF that's what your birds have.

 

[Granitestater]

Quote:

You can't do the same thing with bleach and a fungus doesn't respond to antibiotics. Your story is the exact reason I posted this thread. I suspect many, many folks have the same situation that make conditions ripe for fungal stuff to set up housekeeping and they have no idea what they're dealing with.

What exactly is your ratio of oxine to water? If i were to put agallon of water into a humidifiet what would my ratio be? Or in the cup of a hot air vaporizer what amount would i use?

 

[speckledhen]

If I recall, it's 3 oz of non-activated Oxine AH to a gallon of water in a cool mist vaporizer. I did not use a steam vaporizer. And if it is still cold where you are, I wouldn't mist the coop for more than 5 minutes at a time-dampness in the coop is not a good thing. Better if you can bring the affected birds inside and mist them in a warm space. I put several in a dog cage in my livingroom when that happened years ago, turned it toward the cage for 10 minutes at a time, two or three times each day for a few days.