Mystery illness is striking again...one bird dies every three weeks or so.
Today I went out and found one pullet with a sticky nose and something bloody looking in its beak (?!?) and another is pullet looking sleepy and not hanging with the rest of the flock, but she doesn't have a runny nose or any other symptom that I can tell. She was perfectly fine yesterday.
Tylan 50 doesn't work, all of my other sick birds have died despite Tylan injections. (1/4th cc for 5 days.) They had the symptoms of IB, including one survivor bird who lays ridged shells.
What else can I do? I can't afford to take them to a vet. I asked the university avian expert about where to get a necropsy and he told me I would have to pay a vet to do it.
A friend who purchased birds from the same sick flock I did took hers to a vet and he said to use Terramycin. What do you think? I am desperate to make the illnesses stop.
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I decided to go ahead and inject them with Tylan to hopefully at least head off the illness until I could figure out what will cure them. When I was looking for a spot on the back to inject my BLRW bantam pullet I found this:
(My DH likes to wear his leather gloves when holding the birds, he's a dork...
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Here is a normal part of the skin, for comparison.
Now I'm really grossed out...what is that huge black thing? It was hard as a rock.
Also, it's worth mentioning, a couple weeks ago we found a dead bird with the same snotty head symptoms my other birds have died of out in our neighbor's side yard. It was a robin...
Today I went out and found one pullet with a sticky nose and something bloody looking in its beak (?!?) and another is pullet looking sleepy and not hanging with the rest of the flock, but she doesn't have a runny nose or any other symptom that I can tell. She was perfectly fine yesterday.
Tylan 50 doesn't work, all of my other sick birds have died despite Tylan injections. (1/4th cc for 5 days.) They had the symptoms of IB, including one survivor bird who lays ridged shells.
What else can I do? I can't afford to take them to a vet. I asked the university avian expert about where to get a necropsy and he told me I would have to pay a vet to do it.
A friend who purchased birds from the same sick flock I did took hers to a vet and he said to use Terramycin. What do you think? I am desperate to make the illnesses stop.
***
I decided to go ahead and inject them with Tylan to hopefully at least head off the illness until I could figure out what will cure them. When I was looking for a spot on the back to inject my BLRW bantam pullet I found this:
(My DH likes to wear his leather gloves when holding the birds, he's a dork...
Here is a normal part of the skin, for comparison.
Now I'm really grossed out...what is that huge black thing? It was hard as a rock.
Also, it's worth mentioning, a couple weeks ago we found a dead bird with the same snotty head symptoms my other birds have died of out in our neighbor's side yard. It was a robin...
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