New chicken sneezing! Seriously love this bird. Need help!

[mother o' chicks72]

If anybody else has experience with this please speak up!

 

[Scarlet_Cowgirl]

Hey there - I know you ae stressed about your new girl, but take a breath

If she is eating and drinking and still bright, you have a little wiggle room. Right now, the only thing you can do is encourage her to eat and drink and keep her warm.

First - to clarify - quarantine means NO contact with your other birds, not even breathing the same air. In the future if you can, you need to COMPLETELY seperate flocks for at least 30 days. I know it's hard, but that way you don't have to worry about your new chickas passing something on - or even the other way around! Sometimes home flocks can carry yuckies that they have built a resistance to that they pass on to the new chickas and...well, then it gets ugly.

I an new to chickens, but not new to birds so I don;t have any suggestions on antibiotics that you can use but I know the list members should have some good suggestions for you. I am sure your local feed store shoud have something that oyu can use and it shouldn;t be too terribly expensive.

As far as your other chickens, keep a close eye on them. It only takes one sneeze to spread a disease and the incubation period (or the time it takes for the bacteria and nasties to actually cause a sick bird) can take anywhere from one day to thirty days to show up. That's why it is recommended that you don't put them together for at least 30 days - sometimes it takes that long for a disease to show up, even if the carrier bird (the one that brings the disease in) looks perfectly healthy.

I would keep your new girl warm, clean and surrounded by lots of good food. Get an antibiotic from the feed store (whatever fellow list members recommend!) as soon as you can, wash your hands and change your clothes before going between groups of birds and it might be a good idea to put your original flock on antibiotics, too.

Good luck with your girl!

 

[1livelychick]

So sorry you're going through this.....Be prepared If she has already been introduced to the rest of your flock. That is.... if it's CRD Chronic Resp. Disease.
Tylan runs around$ 10-12 for a bottle.

 

[mother o' chicks72]

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how often do i give the tylan and how much do i give the birds? should i give it to the rest of the flock as well even if they aren't showing symptoms? how long will it take for them to show symptoms if it is CRD?

 

[1livelychick]

mother o' chicks72 :

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how often do i give the tylan and how much do i give the birds? should i give it to the rest of the flock as well even if they aren't showing symptoms? how long will it take for them to show symptoms if it is CRD?

maybe you could call your local vet. As the previous poster suggested....keep her warm, eating and comfortable. It's really difficult to suggest when you don't know if you're dealing with a viral or bacterial infection.​

 

[mother o' chicks72]

ok, she is now on duramycin-10 as is the rest of the flock. too bad i wont be able to eat their eggs for the next few days, they just started laying

. I really hope the duramycin helps

 

[silky ma]

When my chickens have started sneezing I just went to my hollistic vitamin store and picked up what is called Elderberry Syrup or Elderberry Concentrate. Some grocery stores have it in the natural food section but it is a whole lot more $$.

I would sanitize all water areas and treat the whole flock. Fill their sanitized water bowls with clean water and pour in the Elderberry till the water is a deep magenta color. The girls will love the taste. Elderberry has been proven to be a virus killer.
Clean the water every2 days if kept in the shade and clean.
Take the sick bird -fill an eye dropper with the elderberry right from the bottle and give the bird about 5 drops 3-4 times a day. Keep the elderberry refrigerated. Do this for as long as needed. You should see results within a day or so.
Remember that garlic is a great immune booster so I would roast a garlic head with a small amount of water NOT OIL! and feed about a clove a day to the bird. Mash it up in canned cat food or with cooked brown rice.

To roast garlic I use a garlic roaster from amazon.com. Pm me if you need info