New Chicken has cough

[golfaz]

I brought home 2 olive eggers last week, apprx 9 weeks old. I added them to my flock of 6, which are about 13 weeks old. For the most part, all is well. The question I have is that one of the new chickens has a cough and I am concern about something spreading to the healthy chickens.

This is my first flock of chickens so I am not sure what to do.

The chicken with the cough seems to be eating and drinking just fine...



FYI... I still have the chickens on starter medicated food.


Any advice?

 

[ProdigyMCluckin]

From looking and hearing its more of a cough than a sneeze right? My rooster grew up with a sneeze about 70% of his childhood and he's ended up just fine now that he's full grown and the sneeze is gone. I'm not sure how to handle this situation though, sorry.

 

[CMV]

Remove the birds from your main flock. It is likely too late to contain the spread of any diseases, but this is why poultry keepers advocate a 4-6 week quarantine period. A coughing bird probably has one of the chronic respiratory diseases. These cannot be cured and will infect the whole flock. The usual method of dealing with these problems is by destroying the infected birds, sanitizing the area where the birds were housed, waiting a certain period of time, and then re-starting with new birds. The CRDs can be treated, but it is often time and resource intensive, and the birds continue to ail for their entire lives. You can have your flock tested by contacting your state's lab to see if you indeed have a problem, or just a coughing chicken.

I am sorry. Good luck.