My chicken has canker...it's pretty obvious but the Vet says antibiotics are forbidden in chickens

[hayley3]

Is there anything I can do? The vet gave her tribissen and panacur. And it's been 2 days and no help at all. Her mouth is a mess and I told the vet it was canker and she said because she has a swelling on one side of the mouth, it is not canker.

 

[nuthatched]

Most vets don't know much about Avian Medicine.
Can you get a picture?

 

[Susan Skylark]

Metronidazole is illegal in food animals, treatment of choice if it is trichomonas.

 

[hayley3]

Most vets don't know much about Avian Medicine.
Can you get a picture?

The interior picture is blurry but the dark stuff on the outside is covering the inside of her mouth and tongue, so much I can't see her tongue... as well as a yellow cheese curd.

 

[hayley3]

Metronidazole is illegal in food animals, treatment of choice if it is trichomonas.

How crazy is that, she's not laying eggs even.

 

[hayley3]

On the side you are seeing, it's swollen there too..the vet said it was infected and gave me Tribissen which is not helping.

 

[Eggcessive]

Yes, most drugs are not approved for poultry and vets are usually not allowed to prescribe them. They can lose their license. Besides that eggs and meat are usually not to be eaten. That said, for some backyard chickens who you are nit going to butcher or care about not eating the eggs for a long time, some do treat their chickens with antibiotics.

Does the beak smell bad, and did the vet confirm canker (a trichomoniasis protozoan infection?) The tribissen looks to be a sulfa antibiotic. Panacur is a wormer. Usually canker requires metronidazole, ronidazol, or using acidified copper sulfate in the water. Canker is contagious to your whole flock, so I would recommend disinfecting all of your feeders and waterers with 10% bleach water, and separating the chicken with canker. Then purchase the acidified copper sulfate to treat the whole flock’s water for 3 days each month as a preventative. The sick chicken can be treated for 5-7 days with the ACS. You can get metronidazole here if you want to use that on her instead.
https://birdpalproducts.com/product...thcmqsexUMbqg4Sen49fhecp3omvQtKwoZ_gX-SD4vAr4

The acidified copper sulfate dosage is 1/4 tsp per gallon of water for 3 days as a preventative, or 5-7 days as a treatment. Here is where to buy it:
https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/acidified_copper_sulfate.html

 

[Eggcessive]

I did want to ask if you have seen any fowl pox this summer or fall? Wet fowl pox may cause similar lesions inside the beak, but canker smells terrible.

 

[nuthatched]

Unfortunately, this is currently sold out :

https://jedds.com/products/metronidazole-20

But this is available, I'm not sure what the ingredients are though .

https://jedds.com/products/canker-p...49504&pr_ref_pid=6832845390013&pr_seq=uniform

 

[hayley3]

Yes, most drugs are not approved for poultry and vets are usually not allowed to prescribe them. They can lose their license. Besides that eggs and meat are usually not to be eaten. That said, for some backyard chickens who you are nit going to butcher or care about not eating the eggs for a long time, some do treat their chickens with antibiotics.

Does the beak smell bad, and did the vet confirm canker (a trichomoniasis protozoan infection?) The tribissen looks to be a sulfa antibiotic. Panacur is a wormer. Usually canker requires metronidazole, ronidazol, or using acidified copper sulfate in the water. Canker is contagious to your whole flock, so I would recommend disinfecting all of your feeders and waterers with 10% bleach water, and separating the chicken with canker. Then purchase the acidified copper sulfate to treat the whole flock’s water for 3 days each month as a preventative. The sick chicken can be treated for 5-7 days with the ACS. You can get metronidazole here if you want to use that on her instead.
https://birdpalproducts.com/product...thcmqsexUMbqg4Sen49fhecp3omvQtKwoZ_gX-SD4vAr4

The acidified copper sulfate dosage is 1/4 tsp per gallon of water for 3 days as a preventative, or 5-7 days as a treatment. Here is where to buy it:
https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/acidified_copper_sulfate.html

The sick chicken is in the basement. I live in the city now but I have not seen one pigeon or dove in their lot although we do have a lot of squirrels. The rest of the chickens look fine. I have a goose, can she drink the water too with the ACS in it? Do you know? Thanks so much for the help!