HAVE YOU HAD EXPERIENCE WITH THIS?
Please post below what you ended up doing, what the treatment was, and the time frame that it took for the sickness / disease to pass.
Would appreciate only responses with those who have had specific experience with this particular problem as we already have the links to the different diseases. Thank you!
BACKGROUND: We have a large double coop and penned area and allow our chickens to free range from early morning until evening on a 40+ acre lot. We have a multi-flock that includes:
-- 2 full-grown barred rock hens
-- 2 silver laced wyandotte hens + 1 wyandotte rooster
-- 10 barred rock pullets + 1 barred rock cockerel (they are approximately 4 months old now)
-- 3 silkie pullets
-- 14 wyandotte / barred rock straight run that we added to the coop when they were 9 weeks old in the beginning of April
-- 2 black copper maran pullets + 1 black copper maran cockerel (added to the coop in the beginning of April when they were 9 weeks old)
-- 6 cochin bantam pullets
-- 6 welsummer pullets
-- 5 americauna pullets
-- 5 full-grown tetra ambers from a small animal swap (that we added to the coop at the end of April) and this is when it started...prior to adding the tetra ambers to the flock we had only lost 1 barred rock chick when it was in it's first couple of weeks and the rest of the flock was healthy.
BEDDING WE USE: Straw
INFORMATION: In the beginning of May, I went out to the coop in the morning to let the chickens out and noticed one of the tetra amber hens was in a corner (dead) laying in a puddle of yellowish cloudy liquid and was extremely, EXTREMELY foul smelling. Later that week (beginning of May) we started to lose our barred rock / wyandotte chicks until only 2 were left, then the bantams (only 2 remaining) then the black copper marans died, 4 welsummers.
Now yesterday 2 of the silkies died along with 2 americaunas (whatever it is is spreading FAST now) and this morning I went out to find that 2 more americaunas were dead along with the older barred rock pullets (4 months old). I am also noticing that some of the larger pullets seem to be getting sick. Whatever illness this is seems to be working it's way up the age groups: targeting the younger ones first (probably because they're more susceptible due to their age) and now the older chickens are starting to catch it.
WHAT WE'VE TRIED: We have cleaned the entire coop top to bottom and I've tried separating the chickens, also tried to keep them inside the coop in case it was something that was outside that they got into. We've also tried plain yogurt to no avail. The water dish is cleaned daily and the feed container is cleaned every time it's empty.
SYMPTOMS: 1-2 days prior to dying I can spot the sick ones: they walk very slowly and feel very thin and light. They also keep their heads tucked down (very much near their backs) and their feathers are puffed up. The sick ones also SMELL (I'm not talking normal chicken smell....I mean they absolutely smell like something is rotting...it's extremely, extremely foul). The sick one's poop is yellow liquid and very runny and smells TERRIBLE.
.....and I just recounted. With the ones that I found dead this morning it actually brings the total of dead chickens up to 32 in the past month and a half.
Please post below what you ended up doing, what the treatment was, and the time frame that it took for the sickness / disease to pass.
Would appreciate only responses with those who have had specific experience with this particular problem as we already have the links to the different diseases. Thank you!
BACKGROUND: We have a large double coop and penned area and allow our chickens to free range from early morning until evening on a 40+ acre lot. We have a multi-flock that includes:
-- 2 full-grown barred rock hens
-- 2 silver laced wyandotte hens + 1 wyandotte rooster
-- 10 barred rock pullets + 1 barred rock cockerel (they are approximately 4 months old now)
-- 3 silkie pullets
-- 14 wyandotte / barred rock straight run that we added to the coop when they were 9 weeks old in the beginning of April
-- 2 black copper maran pullets + 1 black copper maran cockerel (added to the coop in the beginning of April when they were 9 weeks old)
-- 6 cochin bantam pullets
-- 6 welsummer pullets
-- 5 americauna pullets
-- 5 full-grown tetra ambers from a small animal swap (that we added to the coop at the end of April) and this is when it started...prior to adding the tetra ambers to the flock we had only lost 1 barred rock chick when it was in it's first couple of weeks and the rest of the flock was healthy.
BEDDING WE USE: Straw
INFORMATION: In the beginning of May, I went out to the coop in the morning to let the chickens out and noticed one of the tetra amber hens was in a corner (dead) laying in a puddle of yellowish cloudy liquid and was extremely, EXTREMELY foul smelling. Later that week (beginning of May) we started to lose our barred rock / wyandotte chicks until only 2 were left, then the bantams (only 2 remaining) then the black copper marans died, 4 welsummers.
Now yesterday 2 of the silkies died along with 2 americaunas (whatever it is is spreading FAST now) and this morning I went out to find that 2 more americaunas were dead along with the older barred rock pullets (4 months old). I am also noticing that some of the larger pullets seem to be getting sick. Whatever illness this is seems to be working it's way up the age groups: targeting the younger ones first (probably because they're more susceptible due to their age) and now the older chickens are starting to catch it.
WHAT WE'VE TRIED: We have cleaned the entire coop top to bottom and I've tried separating the chickens, also tried to keep them inside the coop in case it was something that was outside that they got into. We've also tried plain yogurt to no avail. The water dish is cleaned daily and the feed container is cleaned every time it's empty.
SYMPTOMS: 1-2 days prior to dying I can spot the sick ones: they walk very slowly and feel very thin and light. They also keep their heads tucked down (very much near their backs) and their feathers are puffed up. The sick ones also SMELL (I'm not talking normal chicken smell....I mean they absolutely smell like something is rotting...it's extremely, extremely foul). The sick one's poop is yellow liquid and very runny and smells TERRIBLE.
.....and I just recounted. With the ones that I found dead this morning it actually brings the total of dead chickens up to 32 in the past month and a half.
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