Mouth infection ( pics attached)

[prettyLiLliars8]

Your others may already be exposed since they have all been eating and drinking together. So I would put her back when she clears up. Consider your flock carriers if it is indeed, canker. Many poultry vets advise culling birds with canker, although backyard chickeners are more likely to keep them and treat them since they are pets. A longtime BYC member recently said that he felt chickens who got canker may be weak or immune-compromised.

I have 24 new chickens .. 17 have been in the same coop but never exposed to the same water or food.. So basically the other 2 older birds most likely are carriers and will eventually pass it to my new birds! ugh.. are the eggs still safe to eat???

 

[Eggcessive]

I would not eat the eggs from any receiving metronidazole for a certain egg withdrawal time. I will need to try to look that up.

 

[Eggcessive]

Well metronidazole is not an approved drug for egg layers, and although many drugs used by chicken owners are used off label, no vet will usually okay the eating of eggs. I looked and looked, and one article tested metronidazole residue in eggs, and states that there was no drug residue 11 days after the last dose. Here is that article:
https://www.researchgate.net/public...in_eggs_of_two_strains_of_hens_using_HPLC-DAD

 

[prettyLiLliars8]

I would not eat the eggs from any receiving metronidazole for a certain egg withdrawal time. I will need to try to look that up.

I don't plan on that but say a week after medicine!

Also Thank you for all your help! It truly is appreciated!