Infectious Coryza and chickens, Its like a severe cold.

[LexiteFeather]

OK so most of my adult birds appear to have come down with coryza. Could they start paying again once they get well or are they not going to anymore? I like my chickens but if they are never going to lay again then well I guess the makes the culling decision for me.

 

[5acres]

So how long do you think the coryza hangs around after cleaning and disinfecting? Thanks for your help.

We have a sole surviver of this and other ilnesses that came with hens we introduced without quarantining. Learned the very hard way. Our survivor Golda appears to be recovering from only coryza. She looks like Moshe Dayan at this point. Antibiotic in water not reducing swelling. Will look for the injectible.

Also, what about vaccinating new pullets? We would like a small flock again ...

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[Eggcessive]

So how long do you think the coryza hangs around after cleaning and disinfecting? Thanks for your help.

We have a sole surviver of this and other ilnesses that came with hens we introduced without quarantining. Learned the very hard way. Our survivor Golda appears to be recovering from only coryza. She looks like Moshe Dayan at this point. Antibiotic in water not reducing swelling. Will look for the injectible.

Also, what about vaccinating new pullets? We would like a small flock again ...

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Coryza only remains in the environment for a few days, but your remaining chicken will always be a carrier. There is a vaccine for coryza, but many people would cull chickens with the disease. If you are certain from her symptoms that she has coryza, then get sulfadimethoxine since that is the best drug for treatment. Here are some links to read:
http://www.jefferspet.com/search.asp?ss=sulfadimethoxine&search-submit=go&camid=liv
http://www.extension.org/pages/68127/infectious-coryza-in-poultry#.U8AI_fldVWM
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/82/infectious-coryza
http://www.merckmanuals.com/vet/pou...overview_of_infectious_coryza_in_poultry.html

 

[sayga]

I bought 3 chicks from a breeder of Cream Legbars. I put all 3 in quarantine for 2 weeks, then gave one to my sister. My 2 were shy and lethargic and didn't act normally around food, so I kept them in quarantine for just over a month. I tried to introduce them to my flock, but they were viciously attacked, so I put them back in quarantine. Then they got sicker (probably from that stress!) and died. And also passed it on to the rest of my flock. Even though the stinky chick died, and was only in with my chickens for a few hours, now I can smell the stink on the others.

My sister noticed her chick wasn't well and got it diagnosed by a chicken veterinarian as Coryza. So now both our flocks are infected. Ugh. Her chickens also have a virus that causes tumors, which she discovered after she started a surgery on one of her hens and ended up euthanizing it (my sister is also a vet, just not primarily a chicken vet).

I think we are going to go with closed flocks for now, but I have a new coop (in a new area of the yard) in the works, and perhaps when the time comes to get that set up, I may set it up with all new birds, and cull off my current flock. It'll be sad, though. Really sad!

From what I've read, it doesn't sound like it can be transmitted through eggs. If my current hens and rooster make some fertile eggs, can I put them in an incubator and hatch out healthy chicks? It may ease the sting of culling, especially for the kids, if they know we are raising the babies of our old chickens. Will fertile eggs from Coryza-infected adults be clean, or will the chicks be infected (even if the adults are culled before the babies hatch)?

 

[Eggcessive]

Coryza is not transmitted through hatching eggs. To be positive of what exactly your chicken has, though, I would recommend a necropsy done on a sick chicken by your state vet to determine that it is only coryza, and not secondary infections such as MG or bronchitis are present. MG is one disease that will transfer through the eggs. Many respiratory diseases will develop secondary diseases at the same time. Here is the link to your state vet: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_dis_spec/poultry/states/oregon.pdf

 

[kristianhope18]

I'm about 100% sure this is what my chickens have that I recently purchased from a small breeder locally! The first group of chicks I bought from her all died and she assured me when I bought the last 7 that she burnt her old boarder and that everything was taken care of and she hasn't had one chick die in months! I stupidly bought 7 Yokohama chicks because I couldn't find them anywhere else and I now have 2 left! They both have swollen eyes, actually the swelling has went down a lot its been about 3 weeks! I just bought 3 new chickens at a sale this past weekend and put them in the same room just a different border and here all of a sudden my only frizzle sultan starts sneezing and its little eye is now swollen! I have been putting albon antibiotics from the vet in their drinking water and I've also tried a week of durimycin and still no real improvement! How do I get ahold of my state vet to test?? I don't even know where to begin considering I'm new to chickens (got my first chicks in April and now I have well over 100 0.0) I would love to get mine tested and I would also love to treat them right! Is the albon (I think I'm spelling that right) the correct antibiotic to treat this? I told the vet their symptoms and he mixed it in his office for me! I also am curious about what to do with the chickens after? If they are carriers doesn't that mean they will infect my entire flock! I have to many to risk infecting! Is this a sickness that ppl recommend culling? I by no means want to cull my flock and probably wouldn't be able to anyway I just want to know what precautions I need to take to keep the rest of my flock healthy? Will I ever be able to put the once infected chickens in with my now healthy ones?

 

[Eggcessive]

Here is some info about contacting the state vet to ask questions about testing, necropsy, and fees:
http://www.kyagr.com/statevet/
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_dis_spec/poultry/states/kentucky.pdf

 

[kristianhope18]

Thank u so much

 

[manny5412]

Can you eat poultry infected with coryza?

 

[5acres]

Golda is doing well and even laid eggs for awhile. I'm back online since she has stopped laying, is puffy under her eye, has eaten very little, and hangs out in her nesting box all day and night.

Thanks, Eggcessive, for all your links!

Last link was a "404 not found" so I drilled down to the most helpful info yet here
http://www.merckmanuals.com/vet/pou...overview_of_infectious_coryza_in_poultry.html

I highly recommend the above link to others!

It has a great clinical findings section and lists "Erythromycin and oxytetracycline are usually beneficial. Several new-generation antibiotics (eg, fluoroquinolones, macrolides) are active against infectiouscoryza. Various sulfonamides, sulfonamide-trimethoprim, and other combinations have been successful."

I'm going to start with another round of antibiotic: Duramycin-10 which is tetracycline hydrochloride.

Note: could not use first link. It seems to ping back to this forum even when I go to jefferspet.com and paste everything after. No Sulfamethoxine comes up when I search "infectious coryza" on the site http://www.jefferspet.com/search?utf8=✓&animal[]=&q=infectious+coryza&button=search

Bottom line, we are NOT getting more pullets until Golda expires on her own with palliative care. She does come when called and is enjoying free-ranging for now. The old girl is officially "out to pasture."