Help!! Raspy breathing and coughing

[Chickens are the best]

One of my pullets has raspy breathing, she keeps coughing/sneezing, and she wasn't eating or drinking this morning, but I have to leave early and I get home late so I haven't had much time to observe her. I bed their house with wood chips and they have 4-5 inches of ventilation. I haven't noticed it being dusty but it could very well be.

 

[Eggcessive]

Chickens who are sick with respiratory diseases frequently do not drink or eat enough. It’s possible that she has infectious bronchitis, a virus that will not respond to antibiotics. But if she has MG (mycoplasma gsllisepticum,) Tylan 50 injectable, available at many feed stores, may be given to help treat symptoms. Dosage is 0.2 ml per pound of weight given 2 to 3 times daily orally or by injection for 5 days. I would also make a mash of water, chicken feed, and a tsp of plain yogurt plus a little cooked egg daily. Discard what is not used each day.

 

[Chickens are the best]

Thank you so much! I will try this.

 

[Gail Knight]

I just went thru this with my ameracauna. Her eye was foamy and I had to go out of town but had boyfriend separate her while I was gone 3 days. When I got back she wasn't eating and both her eyes were swollen shut. We had to dip her beak into water to get her to drink. After a bunch of research I ended up getting a vial of penicillin and after the first shot we got her to eat yogert mixed with a raw egg and some honey (1 tsp). I even force fed her a bit and then she started eating it herself. After the second injection I went out there this morning and both of her eyes were wide open. She is now eating scrambled eggs and some greens and drinking on her own. I really thought she was a gonner - her tail was down and she was very lethargic. I will give her another injection of 5ml penicillin again tonite and then day after tomorrow and keep her separated for another week until I can do a preventive dose of Denegard 12.5% in my flocks water (8mm/gallon). This is the first time I have done an injection and the poor hen had to indure 3 pokes the first time. The Denegard is supposed to be done every four weeks for 3 days to keep the pneumonia at bay. Evidently she will be a carrier from now on. I'm for sure learning to be a chicken doctor!!!!...