need help quick update on pg.2

[peachick]

the swelling should be gone in 2-3 days. if its not, Id treat once more.

 

[chickabator]

well not any better yet and this is the second day of the antibotics. one had strait tylan 50 and today she did not want to eat. dh finally got her to eat this evening though.

 

[peachick]

ok Id treat her again in the morning. you may have to great her a few times with tylan 50. i use tylan 200

I just started similar treatment with a red golden pheasant today.

 

[chickabator]

I just wish I knew what this stuff is. how long will I have to throw the eggs away . which right now they are not laying to great anyway. out of about 25 hens we got 3 eggs today. they were thrown away. My dh is afraid that they all are going to die. and he is panicing. he has really spent alot of time on them. they just turned a year old last thursday. the other ones that are like this are just 6 mo old and have not started laying yet. and then my amerauca is 11 mo old and just laid her first egg yesterday. to be honest with you I think he has too many chickens in that pen. It took him almost an hour to clean it out yesterday, but he has alot of health problems. so me and my daughter usually end up doing it all. I didn't want them to begin with but now after raising them from newborns I guess I would be lost without them. You can really get attatched to them and I know everyone of them personally. and I hate seeing my girls sick.

 

[chickabator]

there is no improvement in their eyes and wn now have more that are doing the same thing. I am going to give shots of tylan-50 to all of them when I get home from sunday school this morning. the duramyacin has been given for 3 days now and there is no improvement. we will also be washing eyes out today again

 

[Guinea Goonie]

I do not know much about Tylosil (tylan), but I do know it is an off lable application to a chicken. People on here SWEAR by its effectiveness and lack of complications. I just have never brought myself to buying a bottle of it as the feed store.

I would get the terramcyin eye ointment (used for cats and dogs). It is found in the refrig at your feed store. Put it on the eyes that of each chickie you are having problems with. This stuff aint cheap.

I am using "sulmet" in the drinking water and am on day 9 of the treatment, one more day. The birds are doing great. All have gotten over the swollen eye and the sneezing and weezing have abatted.

 

[peachick]

This type of sinus infection is very common.... and very contagious.

Tylan is great for treating it. I use tylan 200, squirt it in their mouth, and I put Terramycin in the drinking water for the entire flock for about a week.
The feed store has a great eye powder called Puffer eye.... used for cattle. you just squirt a puff of powder in their eye and it heals right up. I treated a pheasant 2 weeks ago with just the puffer eye.

edited to add......
Here is the meds listed by the United Peafowl Assoc....

Eye problems NFZ puffer for cattle "Puff" directly into the eye with eyelids held open.
Respiratory distress/swollen sinuses Tylan 200 for cattle Adult birds:1-2cc given orally
Respiratory distress/swollen sinuses Terramycin powder 1 Tablespoon/gallon drinking water for 2-3 days.

 

[Frosty]

I use the Tylan 50, but I inject it right into the sinus. First I use a seperate needle to suck the gunk out of the sinus, then a CLEAN needle to inject in the Tylan (I used about .5 cc on a peachick about a month ago). Usually one treatment takes care of it. Otherwise, wait two days and treat again if necessary. I don't inject into the muscle, it will cause permanent muscle damage. There is a powdered form of Tylan that is labled for use on poultry (you add it to the water), the injectable is labled for cows and hogs only. Most what I have read indicates that the powdered form doesn't work for this. I hope your birds get over it soon, they just look so miserable when they get all swollen!

 

[chickabator]

this is what they look like

There is one little new hampshire red pullet that hold her head down and she will sway it back and forth she just started doing this today and she walks backward and stumbles. am I going to have to cull my whole flock? not all of them have this and it is only on one eye on each chicken. mainly the left one. my buff rocks are in there and so is my red rooster but they have no symptoms. One of the hens has bubbly stuff on its eye and snotty noses on about 4 of them. we gave tylan 50 again 1cc. to each of them but to me they just seem to be getting worse than better. then I have an ameraucan that is in a different pen and her eye is like this now. the other 3 ameraucanas no symptoms and the two hens just started laying 2 days ago.

 

[chickabator]

bumping myself here I need help here quick. I don't want to lose my girls, I have been giving the duramycin for 3 days now no improvement at all please help if you can