MG? Help I need advice on what is our best option.

[Mitchell'sCoop]

And please don't beat yourself up over this. The other birds you brought in were not showing symptoms. They may not have shown symptoms in a 30 day quarantine. The stress of introduction could have brought whatever this is to the surface.

Also, wild birds and even mice can carry MG. Sometimes even the most careful chicken keeper can end up with something.

Thank you, this is the hardest part!! I really feel like if I had done more this wouldn't have happen, the guilt is thick right now. I know over all this is very much a learning experience, and I'm definitely learning a lot but this is a really hard lesson. I just want to do right by them and if it's something that will possibly always be able to be spread on I'm not sure it's right for me to keep them, as much as we have grown to love them. No one super close currently owns chickens by us but our neighbors use to and have thought about getting them again, I don't want to put their flock at risk of something either.

 

[Mitchell'sCoop]

Also it seems to be much harder on the roosters than it is on the hens. Most of the hens only had one side of their face that got swollen but the roosters had it on both sides with more swelling and trouble breathing. I've checked for gape worm and eye worms as well as mites and lice and haven't found anything like that. I know mites and lice and the worms wouldn't necessarily cause all the symptoms they are having but I've been trying to figure out what's wrong.

 

[dawg53]

I've looked into it as well but I don't think this is it. I mean its bad... it could possibly be coryza but they are missing some of the symptoms for it. But here is a pic of one of the girls tonight, both of her eyes are swollen shut.

If there is a foul odor around the head area, it's coryza. Keep in mind that birds can have more than one disease at the same time, which may require multiple antibiotics etc.

 

[Mitchell'sCoop]

If there is a foul odor around the head area, it's coryza. Keep in mind that birds can have more than one disease at the same time, which may require multiple antibiotics etc.

Yeah they don't have any odor, I've seen with MG they have a sweet smell to their breath as well and they don't seem to have that either as of yet, not sure if the odor shows up later on or not but thinking it should already be present if it is that if they will have it. It's so frustrating, looking things up 20 things can all have similar symptoms but be completely different diagnoses. I'm going to call the lab tomorrow and see what all I should ask to have them tested for.

 

[dawg53]

Here's a list of common poultry diseases/Respiratory diseases to take a look at including treatments:
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044

 

[Mitchell'sCoop]

We haven't had any wrinkled eggs, I had looked into IB also but no egg issues aside from a couple soft shell/shelless from first time layers.