Over night illness

[Puddleducks]

My rooster has fallen sudenly and direly ill but there's a bit of back story so bear with me. We had a hen with what we thought was a bound egg issue and then some nastiness in the hen box (eggs with no shells, poop, broken eggs) The flock also sounded a little gurgly and just in case that hen had something dire wrong with her we put them on water borne ati biotics for four days. (we've done this in the past for the gurglies we have ponds and they drinl out of them) The bad hen got better, the gurgle cleared up. Two weeks past. I went away for a week and while I was gone my father saw fit to put them back on anti biotics, another hen was having similiar egg bound- waddle symptoms. We have young hatchlings due to come live in the coop and he wanted everything taken care off. Everyone got better. They've been off meds for three days. Everyone is peachy keen.

Except my rooster. Over night he's gone from perky paranoid to breathing hard and lots of poop stuck to him. This change happened over night where as the old hens happened slowly (if they have a disease and not egg binding) So I don't know if its the same (what I thought was minor) Illness or if its the antibiotics? there is allso the slim possibility the neighbors (who hate them) are poisioning them or something (They've made threats before.)



Symptoms: Rooster; Diarehea (black and bright green), excessive spit, heavy breathing, shaking, fatigue.
Hen: Bloated abdomen, waddle, poop sticking to feathers but not unhealthy colored (Egg bound seeming to me)

Any information or links to chicken diagnosing sites would be aprecaited! <3 Let me know what you guys know and thankyou in advance.

 

[FlyHigher]

Have you checked newcastle disease?

 

[Puddleducks]

Oh God, this fits better than Avian Cholera. We've had a huge number of egg breaking issues in the last month. And hte wing hanging and the tremors fit as well. Oh Gosh. I cannot handle this.

How and where can I get a bird's cadaver tested for these things and or possible poisoning? I would like to report/warn everyone in town with poultry if my chickens have something awful.

 

[leadwolf1]

Call your local government extension office and they should be able to point you in the right direction for a necropsy to be done. You can also contact your vet and see if they know of a state office that does them. That is the best way to find out exactly what you are dealing with. Good luck!

 

[Puddleducks]

Thank you <3

 

[FlyHigher]

Thank you <3

Do they get better? If not, I'd like to suggest trying some antibiotics as a start. It may be helpful.

 

[Puddleducks]

They've been on antibiotics in the recent past for general minor respitory gurglie.

I sent My Rooster's body to a local university to have him autopsied in case of severe diseases. The state agriculture department and the university system was very kind and helpful and agreed that testing, even if it comes back negative would be better than guessing. It only cost me 35 dollars for a straight necropsy. I'll know the fate of the rest of my flock (though everyone seems fine for now) soon enough.

 

[Puddleducks]

So I got back the results of the test and he did not have anything that would jepordize my flock or call to put down other infected birds. Snowflake had pneumonia in one lung cuased by asphixiating on a foreign body. They said he may have had Coxy? Which I'm not sure what that is, which is a low grade intestinal issue that's easily treated and would have worn down his immune system, since pneumonia is a secondary infection usually.

Any way I'm going to keep my young chicks quarentined and try to figure out if they have coxy or worms or something or if they just need another round of antibiotics to get rid of a nasty respatory cold. I don't want to lose anyone else :C

 

[leadwolf1]

Coccidiosis is easily treated. If the vet thinks that your roo died of it as a primary source, I would get Corid and treat every chicken as soon as you can. You can find Corid at most feed stores and at Tractor Supply. Do not wait. Cocccidiosis can and will kill and it can happen fast.

Coccidia is a protozoan that is found in soil. The chickens get infected by eating the soil with it in it. It multiplies in their intestines. They will eat on the intestinal lining until the chicken bleeds to death. That is a very simple explanation, not a scientific one.

Please treat all your chickens..they are at risk.

What is wrong with your chicks???? What symptoms are they showing?