One Chicken Dead, One More Sick, Help?!

SamJacobbe

Chirping
7 Years
Apr 13, 2012
67
3
94
Wellington Florida
Hello, so about a week ago we noticed one of our roosters was acting a little funny; he wasn't with the rest of the flock, not super active, and just kinda depressing. So we picked him up and put him in one of our extra stalls with food and water mixed with antibiotics for chickens. We thought he looked a little better two days ago, but then I went to check on him today and he had passed. He was my mothers favorite rooster so she's very sad about this. But we also found one of our silkie roosters is acting the same, he was under the chicken coop, had this really bad smell about his face, it looked as if his nose was running or something, and he had bubbly liquid in his eye. We put him in quarantine with the antibiotics and a few days before had put them in the rest of the chickens drinking water in case others had this. We don't know what this is and have no idea what to do or how to treat it, if anyone has any idea as to what it might be or what we should do to keep the rest of our flock from dying that would be much appreciated.


Ps. As a side note I wanted to add that about a month or two ago I had taken one of our silkie roosters away from the flock because his nose was completely stopped up, it smelled so fowl (no pun intended) and when I tried to help unblock it, one nostril seemed as if it was solid and what stopped it up was hard to remove, and the other had like pus or something leaking out, it was yellowish and came back a few days later. I had given him antibiotics for a week and then my mom put him back with the rest but I think his nose is still clogged up, I could check and maybe give some pictures, I don't know if that has anything to do with our passed polish rooster and our other silkie or if he has something different altogether. All three are roosters though, is there a disease that only affects males?
 
Your chickens sound like they are getting infectious coryza, a bacterial respiratory disease characterized by thick foul smelling nasal mucus and swollen sticky eyes. Secondary infections such as MG and air sacculitis with E.coli are common. Culling of infected birds would be my recommendation, but if you close your flock to birds coming in or going out, symptoms may be helped by giving Tylan 50 injection, or Tylan Powder, Gallimycin, Sulfadimethoxine, or Sulmet in the water. Other birds exposed will also be carriers. Sorry that you are dealing with this, and getting a necropsy on a sick bird can help identify the disease.
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/82/infectious-coryza
http://www.merckmanuals.com/vet/pou...overview_of_infectious_coryza_in_poultry.html
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044
 
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