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Sarah I went back several pages to see where you talked about the chickens being sick. I saw that a bantam that went to a show in Ohio passed away, butI didnt know you had another die. What are the symptoms? I have sick chickens right now too. I called the vet and they wanted $64 just to see one chicken. I have opted to give the tetracyclin (SPELLING?) from TSC for the 7-14 days first. I have never had a sick chicken and am kind of freaking out. I had a home for all the girls if the Twp forced it. But now there is no way I can pass on a sick flock to someone. Someone at TSC said he would uthanize the birds for me if it came down to it. I hope it does not.
The symptoms my girls have is cough/sneezing. Some have swollen vents and dirty butts. One has a small cut on her face where the beak meets the feathers. Maybe a 1/4 inch. Her eye on that side is swollen, as well as her ear bud and neck. She extends her head and keeps her mouth open. She has a yellow scab on her swollen vent about the size of a dime. Her bottom is constanly caked with poo. I have bathed her 3 times in three days. She spent two days in the coop. I crated her and gave her poulty drench last night. Today I put her out with the flock and started everyone on meds. She along with everyone else still has a wonderful appitete. Inhale treats, and are drinking as usual. There is no snotty noses. Color of combs is pretty dark pink. No one has hard bellies or full hard crops. No one is standing like a penguin. Some of them do have some loser stools than normal. No one has ever passed a wormAnd egg production has really dropped off. After we got those cochins in March they went into a hard molt then my 8 went into I think a light molt. Started losing a few feathers around their vents. Anyway out of 16 layers I averaged 6 to 9 eggs. The last few days were 4-8-3-10. I am so worried. My worst fear is what you said. They will never be better and all have to be killed.
I hope someone can give me some hope. Thank You
Is it true that you cannot eat the eggs while they are being treated or 5 days after?
My birds just have a drunkenness to them, but since going on the antiboditics that has cleared up. The sick ones are standing hunched up like they don't feel well. Combs are not normal, but improving with the antiboditics. Did lose 2 hens (one bantam and one LF) 12 hours after showing symptoms. My daughter purchased 2 OEG pullets at that show and they started feeling bad last week. But I didn't do anything about it. Their symptoms are different too- swollen eyes, which some of our chickens had during the winter months. But I didn't think it would affect our birds since they had it this winter.
But now that so many are sick now(just huntched over and tails down), we started antiboditics on Saturday. 2 teaspoons per gallon. The avian vet at MSU said to double the dosage and I should see improvement in 48 hours.
I haven't lost any more chickens, but I do have to find out what they had, since we do show our chickens. I don't want to be exposing chickens to this disease if my birds are carriers of it. I do know that I don't plan on going back to Ohio to show.
This is the first time in 15 years that I have treated sick birds with antiboditics. I am on the mind set the strong will survive, but if we have this one disease, antiboditics are the only way to go, and they will still be carriers of the disease for life. But with 100 birds at our place, I didn't want to have the finanical disaster to replace everyone.
Good luck on your sick birds. Call Dr Futon at MSU and he is great at diagonsising over the phone:517-353-1683
Sarah
I had this about 4 weeks ago and lost a very nice hen. I wish I had got the antibiotics going for my hen Alberta, she was a beauty.
My tom Henry then got it. I used Tylan 50 and it cleared up Henrys problem in about 3 days. I did switched to Tylan 200 because its more concentrated and you inject less.
Sarah I went back several pages to see where you talked about the chickens being sick. I saw that a bantam that went to a show in Ohio passed away, butI didnt know you had another die. What are the symptoms? I have sick chickens right now too. I called the vet and they wanted $64 just to see one chicken. I have opted to give the tetracyclin (SPELLING?) from TSC for the 7-14 days first. I have never had a sick chicken and am kind of freaking out. I had a home for all the girls if the Twp forced it. But now there is no way I can pass on a sick flock to someone. Someone at TSC said he would uthanize the birds for me if it came down to it. I hope it does not.
The symptoms my girls have is cough/sneezing. Some have swollen vents and dirty butts. One has a small cut on her face where the beak meets the feathers. Maybe a 1/4 inch. Her eye on that side is swollen, as well as her ear bud and neck. She extends her head and keeps her mouth open. She has a yellow scab on her swollen vent about the size of a dime. Her bottom is constanly caked with poo. I have bathed her 3 times in three days. She spent two days in the coop. I crated her and gave her poulty drench last night. Today I put her out with the flock and started everyone on meds. She along with everyone else still has a wonderful appitete. Inhale treats, and are drinking as usual. There is no snotty noses. Color of combs is pretty dark pink. No one has hard bellies or full hard crops. No one is standing like a penguin. Some of them do have some loser stools than normal. No one has ever passed a wormAnd egg production has really dropped off. After we got those cochins in March they went into a hard molt then my 8 went into I think a light molt. Started losing a few feathers around their vents. Anyway out of 16 layers I averaged 6 to 9 eggs. The last few days were 4-8-3-10. I am so worried. My worst fear is what you said. They will never be better and all have to be killed.
I hope someone can give me some hope. Thank You
Is it true that you cannot eat the eggs while they are being treated or 5 days after?
My birds just have a drunkenness to them, but since going on the antiboditics that has cleared up. The sick ones are standing hunched up like they don't feel well. Combs are not normal, but improving with the antiboditics. Did lose 2 hens (one bantam and one LF) 12 hours after showing symptoms. My daughter purchased 2 OEG pullets at that show and they started feeling bad last week. But I didn't do anything about it. Their symptoms are different too- swollen eyes, which some of our chickens had during the winter months. But I didn't think it would affect our birds since they had it this winter.
But now that so many are sick now(just huntched over and tails down), we started antiboditics on Saturday. 2 teaspoons per gallon. The avian vet at MSU said to double the dosage and I should see improvement in 48 hours.
I haven't lost any more chickens, but I do have to find out what they had, since we do show our chickens. I don't want to be exposing chickens to this disease if my birds are carriers of it. I do know that I don't plan on going back to Ohio to show.
This is the first time in 15 years that I have treated sick birds with antiboditics. I am on the mind set the strong will survive, but if we have this one disease, antiboditics are the only way to go, and they will still be carriers of the disease for life. But with 100 birds at our place, I didn't want to have the finanical disaster to replace everyone.
Good luck on your sick birds. Call Dr Futon at MSU and he is great at diagonsising over the phone:517-353-1683
Sarah
I had this about 4 weeks ago and lost a very nice hen. I wish I had got the antibiotics going for my hen Alberta, she was a beauty.
My tom Henry then got it. I used Tylan 50 and it cleared up Henrys problem in about 3 days. I did switched to Tylan 200 because its more concentrated and you inject less.
