Hen has infectious coryza and gurgling noises..???

Beloved_Chicken

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I'm back again but with another hen....Around July 27 our neighbors came to us if we want to give our chickens of some kind of immunity med since they're treating all their chickens, and so I agreed.


Around 2 days later at night I noticed that my broody hen has a swollen face on her left side so in the morning I put Erythromycin Tilmicosin in all of their water and hot pressed her swollen side.


In July 31 at night I noticed that she's gurgling but her swollen face is gone... So I checked her throat but it's just slimy and she has difficulty in breathing and occasionally gasping for air.


Now I removed her from her nest and put her in the cage. I still gave her the medicated water but she's not eating, lethargic and tries to sleep but keeps waking up because she keeps sneeze/coughing(?).


Plss help....I don't know why 2025 is making me and my chickens suffer....I already lost one roo, a few months later my young roo got sick by the same illness, the next month weird thing happened to my hen, and now my other hen is sick and according to google could be potentially lethal 😭.
 
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This is her poop this morning. I don't know about the white poop if its diarrhea or just the hot weather? Since she only drank water yesterday and this morning. The green poop tho...

She seems fine for now...she looks bright eyed but still lethargic...the gurgling has stopped but I can still feel a lil bit of vibrations...she also sneeze/cough less now... she ate the scrambled eggs but only a little.

I hope she fully recovers 😭🙏🏻
 
Have you treated with an antibiotic? Mycoplasma (MG) can look similar with swollen eyelids or face, watery eyes, and mucus from the beak. Most stat vet labs will do a necropsy to look for a cause of death when you keep the body cold and take it or send it in to the lab. Here is a list of state vets to contact:
https://www.metzerfarms.com/poultry...L5h4Xt137GBu32pWJZSRUY5DYhQyVrd4ODmF-Ab8otocc
Erythromycin Tilmicosin or Respirax is antibacterial already....i don't know if that makes any different tho. Also I'm from the Philippines and most vets here are just general vets...
 
If there is no bad odor from the face, it probably is MG. If there is an odor, then it is probably coryza. Emycin, tylosin, tilmicocin, oxytetracycline and tiamulin/denagard are good for MG. Coryza is better treated with sulfa antibiotics or a combo of sulfa and tylosin. Sulfa antibiotics include bactrim, trimeth sulfa, and sulfdimethoxine.
 
If there is no bad odor from the face, it probably is MG. If there is an odor, then it is probably coryza. Emycin, tylosin, tilmicocin, oxytetracycline and tiamulin/denagard are good for MG. Coryza is better treated with sulfa antibiotics or a combo of sulfa and tylosin. Sulfa antibiotics include bactrim, trimeth sulfa, and sulfdimethox
thanks!

When she first got the swelling on her face there's an odor coming out but after two days the swelling is gone, and now I couldn't tell if there's an odor...She still gurgle and sneezed a lot today compared yesterday, maybe because she never drink her med water so I have to give it to her manually again.
 

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