More sick birds. *Necropsy Report!* (Now with IC, swollen eye...)

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If they are actually responding to the sulmet, It has to be Coryza..Coryza is the only respiratory illness that responds to sulmet..........
 
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If they are actually responding to the sulmet, It has to be Coryza..Coryza is the only respiratory illness that responds to sulmet..........

The guy I talked to has a PhD in poultry and he is the head of the large research lab at UK...he told me that Sulmet acts as a broad spectrum antibiotic to treat the secondary infections that are caused by respiratory viruses. So I guess they could have IB or Coryza or any virus, but what's killing them is the secondary infections that develop and the Sulmet helps that. He said there was nothing that could actually stop the IB since it's a virus and not bacteria, aside from the IB vaccine, but the vaccine does no good once the birds have been exposed like all mine have.

By the way, just because I thought this was interesting, he told me that Sulmet has very little carry over into eggs according to their research, but it is still best to wait 21 days from the time you being administering the antibiotic before eating the eggs or meat.

I was hoping that the lab would call me this afternoon but they didn't. They said they would call within 24 hours, and that would be by 10:00 tomorrow morning. I'll update the thread and let you all know what they say! I'm impatient. :| I so wish I'd known that they did all this testing for only $10, I would have taken a dead bird in way sooner!
 
Just to update anyone who is following this...

They didn't call me, and it had been 24 hours so I called them. The pathologist who did the necropsy is sick today, so I have to call back again tomorrow. I hope the disgusting black spot on my bird didn't make her sick.
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I'm never going to find out what the Killer Snot actually is at this rate!
 
Oh, man. I haven't posted before but I've been following this thread. I'm dyin' to know what the report says.
I hope she's in tomorrow!
Patience, patience, and hope she doesn't say...........inconclusive.
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It's obviously some kind of injury, my bets are on either a actual bite from another animal or if she got caught somewhere, OR the spider bite BUT you said she's very fluffy and I know on my own birds their neck feathers can be like an inch think before you hit skin. I would think it would be difficult for a spider to actually find the skin to bite on a chicken. Especially a Brown Recluse, they are very shy spiders that would rather get away from you than bite you on purpose. Most Brown Recluse bites come from accidentally squishing the spider and making it feel it has no way out other than to bite whereas Black Widows use their bites and vemon as part of their hunting device.
Several months ago we were getting ready to take a few choice birds we had raised to the county fair and I was getting ready to give my daughters leghorn pullet a bath for the fair when I found a large area on her neck that was completely hard black necroptic tissue and old dried blood clots. Apprently she had been grabbed by some animal as soaking the area and cleaning it revealed a nasty and disturbing chunk of the neck skin missing right down to being able to see the muscles and everything!
She obviously didn't go to the show.
But she did heal, with no stitches and alot of TLC. She had been acting fine too.
Good Luck!
 
I wonder what could have injured her like that.
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We have a cat who occasionally playfully chases the chickens, but ever since our biggest hen challenged her she hasn't bothered them. I don't think either of my dogs have been near them either. Hmm.

I'm calling the office first thing in the morning, I hope the pathologist is there. This afternoon I had one bird who had a runny nose and constant cough/sneeze--she sounds like a frog! Two other birds had snotty beaks and were gaping to breathe. :thun

I'm going to cry if they tell me the necropsy is inconclusive and we won't know anything until the test results come back in 7-10 days. I'm afraid that might be too late.
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Some of the birds belong to a friend who is coming to pick them up this weekend. (She is going to isolate, of course.) We got originally got all of our birds from the same place at the same time, and hers just got a few runny beaks and then were fine after a round of Tylan. Mine on the other hand have continued to sicken and die and I can't figure out what I'm doing different.
 
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final necropsy reports take 30 days to come back. u should have had a phone call while the testing was being done, in the middle on a break or as soon as finished to tell u what they saw and suspected and saw signs or similarity of and what being tested for.

pucky! other people work in the lab if there was another patholigist or a state vet they could of told u what preliminary findings were u should not have to call them they should be doing their job and that is to notify u immediately since something highly contagous is possible here.

when mine r tested i get 3 sets of papers and phone calls whole way through and so does anyone else i take bodies to the lab for to be tested. preliminary findings is sent a copy of paper work in usually 3 days. preliminary report about 7-10 days there is more findings, paper work sent again after more testing and at aprox 30 days u get a final report stateing everything all yet again, any new info and the last of all the test results some take that long to come back, and then it also has what they deturmenided is or ruled out isn't the causes of sickness or death.

good luck tomarrow i hope it is good news for u and ur flock, keeping fingers crossed.
 
I just called and the preliminary findings, just from the gross examination, are that the bird died from cancer. There was a huge mass in the abdomen, and that lesion on the skin also appeared to be cancerous. He said the respiratory stuff they found was secondary and not the cause of death as far as he could tell without the test results. 5-7 days until the virology and bacteria results are back.

But cancer isn't contagious, so why are all my birds sick and dying?????

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Plus this was just a pullet who hadn't even reached the point of lay, why would she have such horrible masses and progressed cancer? Poor chickie.
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