Just bought 2 hens at a swap and one is sneezing clear mucus

bless your heart for helping this poor bird. you want my honest honest opinion? I'd take her back and demand a healthy bird or my money back
it is really upsetting that she endangered your whole flock by selling a sick bird . thank God they never came in contact with your birds! you did what's right because testing really should be done because once her symptoms go away you surely don't want a carrier infecting your flock. it sounded shady to me when you said she had told you she was state tested but didn't give you her paperwork...luckily your smart and kept her separate thank God. I've been looking up corzya and I'm hoping she doesn't have it! her eyes look good so hopefully not! please keep me posted what happens with her OK . and if you ever need to just talk I'm here for you OK. I've been thinking of you and wish you the very best.hang in there OK.just know you have a friend in me . I'm here if you need me. good luck
 
bless your heart for helping this poor bird. you want my honest honest opinion? I'd take her back and demand a healthy bird or my money back
it is really upsetting that she endangered your whole flock by selling a sick bird . thank God they never came in contact with your birds! you did what's right because testing really should be done because once her symptoms go away you surely don't want a carrier infecting your flock. it sounded shady to me when you said she had told you she was state tested but didn't give you her paperwork...luckily your smart and kept her separate thank God. I've been looking up corzya and I'm hoping she doesn't have it! her eyes look good so hopefully not! please keep me posted what happens with her OK . and if you ever need to just talk I'm here for you OK. I've been thinking of you and wish you the very best.hang in there OK.just know you have a friend in me . I'm here if you need me. good luck
I have been crying all night...because I feel either thing I do its just not right, but after talking with a friend who is a breeder I made the choice to give them back. I feel so terrible because I want to nurture, help and save everything. I drove an hour away this morning just to get her meds but the possibility this could kill the rest of my flock that I love so much I have to send her back. I only hope this women will care for her, I really hope she truly didn't know she was sick and that she will give her meds and keep her warm. I don't even want to risk getting new birds from her...I am scared to get new birds all together. Thank you for your support. Her eyes do look good but what ever it is in one night it progressed...going from clear to yellow boogery..maybe the stress of getting moved did bring it out. I don't even. really want to place blame on the women that sold her to me, I mean maybe she didnt know...but then again I should have gotten even a buisness card, she wrote her name and number down after I had to ask for it and I cant make out the last name...it looks like Amy Chicken..."Chicken?" weird! But she is meeting us in the morning, so hopefully I get my money back...then I am all set on new chickens!
 
oh Kel!
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SHARING from another thread I had started a while back.... I did tylan50, acv in waterers and cleaned the coop well. but mine was due to switching to powdery pine shavings : (



tylan 50 injectable, but I will give orally.
Dosage is 1/2cc for standard size birds for 5 days, 1/4cc for smaller birds for 5 days. You should see improvement by the 3rd or 4th day....continue and include the 5th day dosing. You can pull up the amount needed and squirt it onto a piece of bread and feed it to her. Make sure to use only the amount of bread she will eat so that she gets the entire dose. The reason you administer for 5 days is because it takes longer to absorb into their system, alot is excreted, not like injecting once a day for 3 days where it goes directly into the respiratory system. or Pull the wattles down and the mouth will open, then squirt the liquid in the mouth. Then quickly release the wattles so the bird can swallow the liquid on her own without aspirating. She may struggle abit before you dose her but will tire, hang on to the wattles and dont let go.


SHOULD I do the ACV or BLEACH in this case?
BLEACH ~ "2 cups bleach to 1 gal. water and then add in a 1 gal. water bucket 1 oz of the mix and water all for at least 24 hours. It's a very dilute bleach solution - probably to reduce transmission of an infectious agent through the shared waterers. Like putting Oxine is the waterers, which some people do all of the time."


ACV~ Give your birds an astringent solution at the rate of four teaspoons of Apple Cider Vinegar to each gallon of water (but never in galvanized metal containers). The tannin in ACV will reduce the viscosity of mucus, and 'cuts through' the coatings in the mouth, throat and intestines, improving the uptake of nutrients/vitamins, and is useful in the treatment of any respiratory disease, as it helps them to expel the mucus from their system. It also reduces the presence of botulism, and is the only effective treatment for the toxin it produces. The target pH is 5~6, or slightly acidic, which also creates a hostile environment for internal parasites ... all that goodness, and for quite literally pennies per gallon ~;-)"


And can I try this along too or don’t bother?
"Crushed ( 7) 1000 mg vitamin c tablets.(one for each chicken) added two to three tablespoons of cinnamon to the powder and mixed it in feed."




http://www.afn.org/~poultry/newsletr/1996/psep96.pdf
Chicken
Medications
by Dr. James Barton and Clarence Gillihan
(excerpt)
".....Bacterial Diseases:
Purchase a bottle of Tylan 50 and several 3cc
syringes with 25 to 30 gauge 1/2" needles. Give your hen 1 to 1 1/2 cc. of Tylan under the skin of the neck .........Continue daily injections for three days but not more than five. Withdrawal time is one month. Tylan does not have much activity against coccidia, but it is very good against Mycoplasma bacteria which is responsible for some respiratory diseases.

To inject Tylan 50, pull the hens feathers back
to reveal the skin on base of the the neck on her back. Lift the skin up and insert the needle gentlty but firmly into the skin just far enough to allow the Tylan to be injected. You will be able to feel it. Be careful that you do not inject yourself. Make certain that you do not push the needle through the skin and out again not injecting at all................

Because Tylan is so powerful, it is recommended
that you purchase some Beneficial Bird Bacteria
and feed it to your chicken after she recovers.
Tylan wipes out all the benficial bacteria that is normally present in a chickens digestive system.

Also, Tylan can kill skin cells near the site of the injection so you should not use anything stronger than Tylan 50 - a stronger variety, Tylan-200 is also available at your local feed store, but this will likely do more harm than good.

When purchasing syringes, get them from a
local drug store. The 'human' grade needles are a little sharper than the vetrinary grade. The cost is about the same and your hen will thank you...."
Sally I am returning her...do you think it could be from her bedding? The women had her on pellets and I put her on hay and pine shavings...how can I be sure??? If it is bad would it be on both sides of her nose? She has boogers on the right side...no swelling, eyes r clear but if you bought hens and had them 1 day and all this was going on would you return them or go threw all this? I would feel 10xs worse if my whole flock got sick
 
Realsis provided you excellent information. I suspect Infectious Coryza or Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG.) I would not be returning sick birds back to the owner, I'd cull them in a heartbeat. These 2 diseases are highly contageous and can be carried on clothing, shoes and hands. MG can be passed through eggs. Strict biosecurity procedures would have to be maintained from infecting your other healthy birds. These infected birds would be carriers for the rest of their lives if they survived. Antibiotics only treat symptoms but do not cure either disease. Good luck.
 
Kel there is a difference, these weren't your birds and you would only know for sure had you tested them. I think you are doing the right thing, but dawg said it as it is. I know how much you love your current flock, so take all precautions and clean everything. I will never again get adult birds from anyone, I have learned too much. Even if its that much needed Roo for breeding or color eggs in my coop. I wish I had known you were gonna get some more : (
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Realsis provided you excellent information. I suspect Infectious Coryza or Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG.) I would not be returning sick birds back to the owner, I'd cull them in a heartbeat. These 2 diseases are highly contageous and can be carried on clothing, shoes and hands. MG can be passed through eggs. Strict biosecurity procedures would have to be maintained from infecting your other healthy birds. These infected birds would be carriers for the rest of their lives if they survived. Antibiotics only treat symptoms but do not cure either disease. Good luck.
I have had them one day, and the min I saw the sign I have been changing my clothes, even showering before I went to my flock. These hens have been in my house and tomorrow we are bleaching the cage after they go. I am not the type of person that can cull anything,
 
Kel there is a difference, these weren't your birds and you would only know for sure had you tested them. I think you are doing the right thing, but dawg said it as it is. I know how much you love your current flock, so take all precautions and clean everything. I will never again get adult birds from anyone, I have learned too much. Even if its that much needed Roo for breeding or color eggs in my coop. I wish I had known you were gonna get some more : (
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Sally past 2 days have been a nightmare! We heard of a local swap at our feed store...we thought great time to find home for our roos. I still loved the lil pains in the butts...we get there and a big fat hick of a guy comes up to us and says have these birds been state tested? Here we are new to all this..Damon just wanted them gone because they were creating havoc in the coop...so he lets the auction guy take them...the guy says he tries to sell em at an auction first then they go to slaughter, or worse get their feathers pulled for fishing lewers. My stomach turns and I just go to the car and cry...I have ptsd so I cant handle anything emotional/stressful thus the reason I stopped hatching my eggs after that last loss. I swear I am tormenting myself with obsessive thoughts of these poor roos that all had personalities and were extremly babied now being scared to death...and now going to go into the slum world of chicken illnesses. So I tried to fill that pain with the excitment of buying 2 new hens...they looked fine at the time...then all this. I am a nut case trying to weigh the pros n cons. But they are going back...thats on that lady what she does. The state is coming to test my birds, I am going to give them her name too. I am just so glad I have kept my birds away from them. But I was told the illness can be passed threw the eggs..so dont you worry u may get bad eggs? How do I find a reliable breeder?
 
I have no answers for you as far as your sick birds go. I do think you are doing the right thing by taking the birds back. I too am a big Mama to all things, both two legged and for legged creatures. I raise Silkies, as well as other breeds and love them one and all. Most of my birds I have gotten from Swap Flocks. It was through one of the Flock Swaps that I met the lady whom I primarily get my chicks from now. I love going to the Flock Swaps because of the nice people I meet and it is the one place I can talk birds, without driving my husband insane
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. I have a couple of suggestions from where you can buy birds from. The first one is you can buy them from catalog online, like Ideal Poultry or several other hatcherys. I have never bought my birds this way, but would after i checked their customer reviews.Then there is eBay or the buying forums on this site. Again you can check customer reviews. Again I have never bought my birds this way but I would not hesitate to do so, after checking the feedback. Then there is my favorite way to get birds and that is to hatch them. I buy my eggs then incubate them. It really is a lot of fun for me. Hatch day is a favorite day in our house. My incubator only holds seven eggs, so I don't have a trillion chicks running around.
Lastly let me say my thoughts are with you. Know that you are doing the right thing. After you come home tomorrow, go out to your coop find your favorite bird and hold it tight. This is the reason you have to do what you have to do. To make sure that little bird in your arms stays well.Try not to beat yourself up with the "what ifs". Our birds are suppose to bring love comfort and nourishment.
We are all here for you. Please feel free to pm me if you have more questions regarding buying birds or anything else i can help with.This is a great site. Here you can find the answers to almost anything. You can also also find lots of people ready to listen.
Again good luck, all will be well. Please let us know how it goes.
 

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