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How are you with giving injections? Are you sure she is getting the full dose of meds. Tetracycline is a good broad spectrum antibiotic. You need to change the meds you are giving. This is just my opinion. I have never seen or smelled a bird with Coryza or Mycoplasma. I hear it smells like rotten eggs, really bad. This sweet smell you are describing almost like soda can/recycle bin in the hot summer smell???? It sound like strep throat. You chicken is choking on food and drink, nasal discharge, with lose gooey eyes??? Oxytetracycline treats most types of strep. Strep is always in the birdie, during times of stress or other disease/conditions it an come out. It seems like all chicken respiratory diseases present the same way. Its a matter of figuring out which on it is, and giving proper treatment.

The reason I asked about tractor supply is: you can get oxytetracycline there, its called liquimyacin. You can give the pullet .5 cc per 5 lbs of body weight. So if you have a 10 lb bird it would get 1cc. You don't have to inject it, you can give it as a drench. You will need a needle and syringe to get it out of the bottle. Take the needle off, and you can use the syringe to give it to her orally. The meds stay in there system for 3 days, so on the end of the 3rd day give her another dose. She should be cured, if that is what it is. Her guts are going to be a wreck, she will need yogurt, save-a-chick and scrambled egg. In a pinch you can use pedia-lyte. When she starts eating "whole" foods again. Start her on scratch, it will help her poop not be so runny and gross.

Good Luck!!! If this is not her problem, or her smell changes, I have more treatment ideas.

Birds with Mycoplasma or Coryza would be culled at my house. If you are planning on not selling any birds, or eggs, you can run a closed flock. They will get sick forever. Periods of stress, secondary infections, or anything really can cause it to flare up. If she does pass, you can get a necropsy done, so you know if you other chickens are safe.


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I got her beginning Of October, and I think they were about 6-8weeks old at that time so approx 5 months

How I have been treating her: I put 5ml in there water of tetracyline powder and refresh it every 24 hours. Also I have been spraying her with Vetericyn in her face/ eyes her eyes look better, but now she seems to have a very runny nose. Again she seems to be showing improvement till I noticed her sitting away from my other 3 girls last night and her feathers looked a mess ( Not sure if they are picking on her now, but they where all good the other day, not sure what happened) My Other 3 where sitting under the heat lamp I have out for them, she was away from that, near the food.

How I am now treating her ONLY ( As of last night): upped the dose to 10ml in each ( water & Food) and have her in the house, with water, and her food all treated with the tetracyline powder.

She just stinks, This morning it did not smell in the area she is in, until she started to moved around, It smells like chicken, but very strong, garbage kinda of smell maybe, sweet and stinky. She is mouth breathing, when she shakes her head, fluid flys off ( Snot?) and when she does eat I notice she like chokes it down? She extends her neck and her feather will fluff out as she try's to swallow...

She is the one in my picture! FYI
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mama2my4 said:
Here is the cochin on the right and a silkie on the left


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Wonderful ! How many LF Cochins did you get from your hatch ? what colors ?

NewToFarming said:
Yes, it is better than a disease but needs to be taken care of promptly because food is not passing through and they are not getting nutrition. She could have two things going on also. The stress of a crop not working could have caused her system to be weakened and she developed a respiratory infection in addition. But check her crop to see if it is large in the morning but if it feels like a water balloon in there, then she definitely has a sour crop.
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Hope all turns out well for your pullet ! keep us updated.
Lilbrownie said:
So im getting the hatching bug especially since my DM got us an incubator for Xmas but in trying to restrain myself til feb!! Still telling myself I don't want a bunch of chicks in the house all winter but you guys are killing me!!
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Gotta try it out, make sure it works ! What's 4 or 6 peeps,,, you'll hardly notice them.......LOL


Sally Sunshine said:
My 1st Article Submission.....to BYC Contest! Ya all remember those nasty vent pics!! LMAO!!

My Article is being submitted because I almost lost my Beautiful Blue Cochin, Fluffy due to Vent Gleet this past Summer. What a stressful learning experience and WOW hard to find information to treat naturally. My girl was so thin and so wasted away and this treatment was AMAZING so I just have to share everything I learned in the process this past summer, and trust me I kept ALL the information I found and all the pictures I took when I was trying so hard to figure out what was wrong! So sharing is hoping to help someone else in that same stressful situation to get through and have the info they need at hand.


Vent Gleet aka "Nasty Chicken Butt"
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/vent-gleet-aka-nasty-chicken-butt
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Great article Sally,,, good info ! Hoping you add it to your signature so it's available to others.
 
Wow! Ok. So one hatched about 1:30. Now have a bator rocking. Have the one out and 9 pipped and moving. Another just sprung rom the shell. This is like hatching stadium here!
 

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