- Dec 17, 2011
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Hi,
I have read through many threads on infectious coryza and think my chicken has it. I have questions though.
I have one very sick Easter Egger that is 5 months old. About 3 days ago I noticed she was holding her beak open and had a little blood around her beak. I thought it was a mouth injury. She seemed to act ok otherwise. Yesterday I spent more time observing her and realized she had swollen nasal area and she would sling her head around to spew cloudy whitish mucous everywhere. Beak still held open, and she stretches her neck up a lot. Yesterday she started to look sick/lethargic and I noticed a very foul smell from her mucous. Today she is gurgly when she breathes, and is very lethargic. She coughs a high-pitched cough occasionally. She seems to be drinking ok, doesn't appear to be eating much.
I separated her yesterday from the flock, which consists of about 35 chickens on one acre of pasture, with an 8x8' henhouse to sleep in at night. They are our hobby/pets/egg layers. We do not show. No other chicken owners in or out, no new birds, no visits to shows etc. There are other chickens in the rural neighborhood, but none within site. The flock is as follows:
one 2 y/o hen RIR
3 Jersey Giants, 6 months old.
one leghorn cockerel, 5 months old.
about 20 pullets, 5 months old, (RIR, leghorns, wyandottes, easter eggers, barred rocks)
6 pullets, 4 months old (RIR, golden sex link, buff orp, australorps)
3 sebright bantam pullets, 4 months old
This flock all started here as day-old chicks which have been raised together with the 4 month-olds joining the larger flock several months ago. Everyone has been healthy up to now.
I read up on symptoms, remembering something about foul-smelling discharge, and it sounds like infectious coryza. Does this sound right?
My questions:
-what if anything is the treatment? The sick one looks very bad and will be culled soon if not better.
-will the whole flock catch this? Everyone else looks ok so far. What if anything can I do to help the rest of the flock?
-Is it advisable to give the whole flock Sulmet? Something else?
-I have read of people culling entire flocks for this, and others with some chickens that recovered. Am I going to have to cull my entire flock and start over?? Will the ones that survive this episode infect future chickens?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
I have read through many threads on infectious coryza and think my chicken has it. I have questions though.
I have one very sick Easter Egger that is 5 months old. About 3 days ago I noticed she was holding her beak open and had a little blood around her beak. I thought it was a mouth injury. She seemed to act ok otherwise. Yesterday I spent more time observing her and realized she had swollen nasal area and she would sling her head around to spew cloudy whitish mucous everywhere. Beak still held open, and she stretches her neck up a lot. Yesterday she started to look sick/lethargic and I noticed a very foul smell from her mucous. Today she is gurgly when she breathes, and is very lethargic. She coughs a high-pitched cough occasionally. She seems to be drinking ok, doesn't appear to be eating much.
I separated her yesterday from the flock, which consists of about 35 chickens on one acre of pasture, with an 8x8' henhouse to sleep in at night. They are our hobby/pets/egg layers. We do not show. No other chicken owners in or out, no new birds, no visits to shows etc. There are other chickens in the rural neighborhood, but none within site. The flock is as follows:
one 2 y/o hen RIR
3 Jersey Giants, 6 months old.
one leghorn cockerel, 5 months old.
about 20 pullets, 5 months old, (RIR, leghorns, wyandottes, easter eggers, barred rocks)
6 pullets, 4 months old (RIR, golden sex link, buff orp, australorps)
3 sebright bantam pullets, 4 months old
This flock all started here as day-old chicks which have been raised together with the 4 month-olds joining the larger flock several months ago. Everyone has been healthy up to now.
I read up on symptoms, remembering something about foul-smelling discharge, and it sounds like infectious coryza. Does this sound right?
My questions:
-what if anything is the treatment? The sick one looks very bad and will be culled soon if not better.
-will the whole flock catch this? Everyone else looks ok so far. What if anything can I do to help the rest of the flock?
-Is it advisable to give the whole flock Sulmet? Something else?
-I have read of people culling entire flocks for this, and others with some chickens that recovered. Am I going to have to cull my entire flock and start over?? Will the ones that survive this episode infect future chickens?
Thanks for any help you can offer.