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Hya everyone I bought 4 POL chickens last September and im obsessed with them. I bought another 6 POL fortnight ago and they have started getting the respiratory problem. The farmer that sold them to me came over last night and injected them with Tylan 200. He gave some to my original 4 to as one of them looks a bit sicky. Will that one injection be enough to make them better or will they have to have another in a couple of days. I have been adding apple cider vinegar in their drinking water for the last couple of days hoping that will help too. Help.
 
chwks said:
Hya everyone I bought 4 POL chickens last September and im obsessed with them. I bought another 6 POL fortnight ago and they have started getting the respiratory problem. The farmer that sold them to me came over last night and injected them with Tylan 200. He gave some to my original 4 to as one of them looks a bit sicky. Will that one injection be enough to make them better or will they have to have another in a couple of days. I have been adding apple cider vinegar in their drinking water for the last couple of days hoping that will help too. Help.
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Probably not since you don't even know if the problem is bacterial (the only thing the drug will affect). And I think it needs to be several days worth. What do the instructions on the Tylan say about dosage and duration?
What's the ventilation like? There are so many respiratory problems that affect chickens with their small respiratory systems but a small number are bacterial. Many are viral, fungal or environmental. Chickens need good air, a minimum of 1 square ft. per bird.
Perhaps the birds were sick when you got them or the additional birds overwhelmed the available ventilation.
 
Greetings from Kansas, chwks, and
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! Great to have you with us! Hope your flocks gets to feeling better soon!
 
plenty of ventilation in coops.... i got 2 coops the original 4 in their own and there are 4 small vents open all night. I let them out 6.30am every day and they go back in evening roughly 8pm ish. They have a large area outside. Signs were frothy eye, coughing and rasping breathing. I dont know what the dosage etc. is as farmer brought it up with him. Just been back up and I dont know if im imagining it but they do seem to have improved since this morning...
 
Hello, and welcome to BYC!!
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Glad to have you aboard!!
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Ive bought tylan200 today and given the new 6 chickens. 02cc and original large ones. 05cc injections myself this evening (48hrs after 1st one).. Hoping tomorrow morning when i leave them out they all will be alive and healthy. Doubt if ill sleep ok roll on 6.30am!!! Can i eat the eggs or should i wait a week....any suggestions please
 
Im not sure about eating the eggs. my flock just finished duramycin. one of my girls had a mucousy breathing, but no other signs. I've read the withdrawal time for the duramycin was somewhere around three weeks, and that you could never eat the eggs from chickens treated with tylan. i don't know how true this is tho. perhaps a quick Google search of it?
 
Thanks..yes bit confusing as some say its ok to eat and some say 1 week, 3 weeks before u can eat them again....ill wait a week then ill see...
 

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