- Jan 19, 2011
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I have 20 chickens and 1 rooster. Barred Rocks, Austrolorps, Buff Orphanton, Black sexlinks, and Americanas. Bedding is Pure pine shavings, They eat Tractor and supply chicken crumble and scratch. Just 2 months ago I lost 2 chickens to a sickness where they were doing strange stretching of their necks like they couldnt swallow. Then they became lethorgic (sp ? ) They would just stand around with their eyes shut .
When it came down to the moment of picking them up to check them out to see how they were Green fluid was just oozing forcefully out of their mouths when I picked them up. I did get rid of them right away when I saw this . I didn't know what else to do. I put all of the chickens on antibiotics for 2 wks and waited 1 wk later to start eatting the eggs again. Hope that was the right thing to do. They seemed much better. Now I have a barred rock who is 5 yrs old and she is having the symtoms as I have seen before She isn't moving her neck around yet but the swallowing seems difficult for her. She is just sitting around doing nothing. Should I take her out of the flock or should I treat all of them right away again with antibiotics ?
I was giving them Duramycin-10. 2 tsps to a gallon for 1 wk and then 1tsp a gallon the second wk. They did get better but I don't know if I did the right thing. There is no one around this community that knows about chickens and their illnesses. Please help. I really didn't want to lose anymore chickens to this horrible illness or disease.
When it came down to the moment of picking them up to check them out to see how they were Green fluid was just oozing forcefully out of their mouths when I picked them up. I did get rid of them right away when I saw this . I didn't know what else to do. I put all of the chickens on antibiotics for 2 wks and waited 1 wk later to start eatting the eggs again. Hope that was the right thing to do. They seemed much better. Now I have a barred rock who is 5 yrs old and she is having the symtoms as I have seen before She isn't moving her neck around yet but the swallowing seems difficult for her. She is just sitting around doing nothing. Should I take her out of the flock or should I treat all of them right away again with antibiotics ?
I was giving them Duramycin-10. 2 tsps to a gallon for 1 wk and then 1tsp a gallon the second wk. They did get better but I don't know if I did the right thing. There is no one around this community that knows about chickens and their illnesses. Please help. I really didn't want to lose anymore chickens to this horrible illness or disease.
