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

[Beloved_Chicken]

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 .

 

[BackyardinWales]

I'm sorry I don't have an answer but I hope someone on here can help you.

 

[Beloved_Chicken]

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

 

[Eggcessive]

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

 

[Beloved_Chicken]

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...

 

[Eggcessive]

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.

 

[Beloved_Chicken]

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.

 

[SnackMeat]

With your antibiotic, perhaps this:

https://birdpalproducts.com/collections/aviomed/products/bromhexine-powder

I was recommended it to help the bird breath during a respiratory infection and give the bird time for the antibiotic to start working. Stupidly, I skipped it because my shopping cart was already expensive. Wound up having a younger bird pop up with symptoms and progress light years faster, to the point in maybe two days it started looking like it was going to die.

Now I don't recommend this, but seeing as how (so far) it seemed to ease the birds breathing, I had an old Bronchaid inhaler (important to note, from what I recall, bronchaid is not a vasodilator. It will make the heart beat faster and so this is risky. I only mention this if your bird looks like it's immediately dying from not being able to breath deeply enough. If you have access to a prescription asthma inhaler, that should be an actual bronchodilator instead of something that makes the heart beat faster to overcome the symptoms temporarily.)


my larger chicken and younger chicken both got their beaks out into the inhaler tube and then, trying to time their inhale, or rather gasps, correctly, got bronchaid sprayed on/in them.


My little zombie chick who I was honestly worried was going to die pretty soon after such a fast progression, and looking upward to gasp for oxygen, initially looked like she was pretty uncomfortable (remember, extra high heart beat) and agitated. But in less than five minutes she had her head at a normal angle, and while her inhales were still that of a sick chicken, it didn't look like agonal breathing. An hour or so later, she was sleeping. I checked on her a few hours later and she had moved around and changed positions and was back asleep.

I put the tylosin/doxy water near her and am hoping for the best.

I wish I had just listened to someone when they recommended the bromhexine along with the antibiotic. I just thought I had more time for symptoms to progress in the more newly sick chickens.