hi everyone...totally new to this please advice...my cockerel has been with us 3 weeks, he was waking us up at 6 crowing but now its stopped and i noticed he sounds like hes coughing or sneezing... my other 5 chickens seem fine but colin (the cockeral) is a worry please help!!!!
-- We've got one that's sneezing too and pretty lethargic, she's one of our older hens (2yrs old) she's got funky breathing too rumbly almost ..we've got her isolated from the other chickens just in case...any advice would be great
get some Tylan 50 injectable and syringes at most farm/feed/livestock stores..in the LIVESTOCK section...(not the poultry section) ASAP.
pm me for more info.
give extra protein..such as egg..
keep warm and out of draft and wet...
give poultry vitamins
or Poly-vi-sol liquid baby vitamins..Enfamil brand..NO IRON formula..give 3 drops on beak once a day for 3 days, then 2 drops for 3 days, then 1 drop for 3 days.
stress from new environment could have lowered his immune system..and he wasn't immune to the "germs" of your flock.