Hens Not Laying After Respiratory Disease

[Peep's Family]

We have two laying hens (one Dominique one Brahma), one a year and half old, the other 28 weeks. They both caught what seemed to be chronic respiratory disease, with sneezing, nasal discharge, fatigue, and eye drainage. They both recovered spontaneously without medication, but it's been a month now and neither is laying still. Any ideas about when/if we should expect to see eggs?

 

[dlhunicorn]

Give your birds POLYVISOL Enfamil three or four drops in beak once a day for a week then taper off the next.
Offer live culture yogurt free choice
Avia Charge 2000 is an excellent complete vitamin/nutrient/micro nutrient supplement and would benefit your birds after this bout of illness.

http://www.wattpoultry.com/HealthNutri.aspx
(2009) - excerpt
"...Brooke D Humphry of the Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland College Park, explained that activation of the immune system results in behavioural and physiological changes associated with pathogen removal.....
....While a bird needs to resist disease, fall in performance is the trade-off associated with immune activation. Minimising this is one way of improving efficiency and welfare.

Nutrition helps to achieve this. The immune system requires nutrients at appropriate times and in appropriate amounts to ensure proper development, maintenance and function.....
....Nutritional approaches to enhance immune function should focus on supplying nutrients that complement the "pull" associated with increased nutrient partitioning for immune function.

Feeding probiotics and prebiotics results in improved gut health and increased enteric and systemic immune responses to specific pathogens......"

 

[Maryallison]

You are very lucky to have had your chickens recover. I hope I might be that lucky.