Hen with Infectious Coryza..do I need to cull all of my birds?

[AlphaMare101]

I am a new chicken mom.Have only had chickens for about a year.
Have lost several over the past few months the that either just dropped dead or had respiratory infections & didn't recover.
I have a hen now with textbook symptoms of infectious coryza. Particularly the respiratory drainage with " rotting meat" typefoul odor .
My birds free range & are cooped at night.
My question is should I cull all of my birds & start over?

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

Welcome to our FUNomenal community! Best of luck with your chickens.......

 

[FrankieDoodle]

Welcome to BYC!!! I'm sorry you're dealing with this, & im sorry I don't know how to help Hopefully someone more experienced will come along

 

[Eggcessive]

Welcome to BYC. Sorry that you are dealing with a bad respiratory disease. Most of the serious respiratory diseases such as coryza, MG, and ILT are chronic and may return again and again during periods of distress (cold westher, molting, etc.) You may spend a lot of money over the comming years on expensive medications to treat symptoms.

What I would do is to get a necropsy on the sickest one or two birds, through your state vet to find out what diseases are present. I cannot tell you what to do, but there are some diseases I would at least cull the bird with those symptoms. Coryza is one of those. Some choose to treat a sick bird, or cull sick ones, while keeping an eye on the ones without symptoms.

If you do cull your flock, it would be good to wait a few months and get healthy chicks from a hatchery, but none from breeders that you don’t know or from swap meets. Even then you can eventually see a disease, but that will give you better chances.

Here is an article to read:
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/82/infectious-coryza/

 

[The Phantom]

@007Sean

 

[AlphaMare101]

Welcome to BYC. Sorry that you are dealing with a bad respiratory disease. Most of the serious respiratory diseases such as coryza, MG, and ILT are chronic and may return again and again during periods of distress (cold westher, molting, etc.) You may spend a lot of money over the comming years on expensive medications to treat symptoms.

What I would do is to get a necropsy on the sickest one or two birds, through your state vet to find out what diseases are present. I cannot tell you what to do, but there are some diseases I would at least cull the bird with those symptoms. Coryza is one of those. Some choose to treat a sick bird, or cull sick ones, while keeping an eye on the ones without symptoms.

If you do cull your flock, it would be good to wait a few months and get healthy chicks from a hatchery, but none from breeders that you don’t know or from swap meets. Even then you can eventually see a disease, but that will give you better chances.

Here is an article to read:
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/82/infectious-coryza/

Tha

 

[AlphaMare101]

Tha

Thanks so much for the article link.
I'm really torn on what to do.