Please help! One dead D'Uccle, several sneezing including my peacock!

You can buy tylan soluable or tylan 50 injectable. Dosage for the tylan soluable is 1 teaspoon per gallon of water. Make a fresh mixture daily and the only source of water for 7 days. You have to add the water to the tylan, not the tylan to the water. The problem with soluables is that you dont know if the birds will drink it, or drink enough of it to be effective. Sick birds wont drink at all. This is why I'd prefer to administer orally if I had sick birds, that way I'd know they got properly dosed.
You can inject the tylan 50 or give it to them orally. Dosage either way is 1/2cc for standard size and 1/4cc for smaller birds. If the peafowl are larger than a standard size chicken, bump the dosage up to 3/4 or 1cc if larger. If you inject, alternate into the breast muscle...one day the left breast, the next day the right breast, the third day in the left breast...then you're done with dosing them by injection... injecting only for 3 days. If you decide to give it to them orally (which would be easier IMO)...dose them once a day for 5 days. The reason you dose them 5 days rather than 3 days is because it takes longer for the injectable to absorb into their system when swallowed to be effective and some of it is excreted as waste. You should see improvement by the third day, but continue to the fifth day then stop treatment altogether. To get them to open their beak, pull the wattles down and their mouth will open. Then squirt the liquid in with the syringe...let go of the wattles so that the chicken can swallow the liquid on their own.
 
are they just sneezing or is their any mucus coming from their eyes or nostrils? Tylan 50 is inject-able only and should not be ingested since it needs to remain sterile. also you wouldn't want to get it on your skin since it can cause reactions so i wouldn't want to give it to the birds like that. there is another form of Tylan that is in powder form that is ingested through water but doesn't seem to be as effective and is about $50 for a bottle but i have only seen it on sites where you need to order it. Tylan 50 needs to be injected into the breast muscle or just under the skin. make sure you do not keep injecting into the same spot since it can break down the muscle. it should only be done for a max of 3 days. if the sinus are inflamed you can inject into those and it will not harm them like putting it into the breast muscles.

how big are your chickens? LF or bantams? like someone else said they have bantams and give 1/4cc per bird. LF are usually 3 to 4 times larger so i would multiply it by that. with the peafowl i would stick to the same size dosing of a LF chicken but you might have better luck either with the peafowl section of the forum. or you can also check the United Peafowl website. i believe there is something on there about respiratory remedies on there about using the Tylan 50.

your peafowl shouldn't be with your chickens since they can get a lot of bad diseases from them, similar to why turkeys should not be in with chickens.
 
THANK YOU ALL for the great advice and knowledge you have passed on to me. I was unaware that we had a Lextron (Animal health and medicine) right here in town. I was able to get the Tylan 50 injectable and have injected all my birds. (That was fun!!)
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I also treated the water with a Tetracyline mix as prescribed by the folks at Lextron. Now I am just keeping my fingers crossed for them to show signs of improvement. Two of my roo's are pretty miserable, but I was surprised to find that out of all 32 birds- only 3 were not sounding raspy when I had them close enough to listen. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I have caught this in time and we make a full recovery.
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(I am a very optomistic soul!)
 
Chickie'sMoma :

are they just sneezing or is their any mucus coming from their eyes or nostrils? Tylan 50 is inject-able only and should not be ingested since it needs to remain sterile. also you wouldn't want to get it on your skin since it can cause reactions so i wouldn't want to give it to the birds like that. there is another form of Tylan that is in powder form that is ingested through water but doesn't seem to be as effective and is about $50 for a bottle but i have only seen it on sites where you need to order it. Tylan 50 needs to be injected into the breast muscle or just under the skin. make sure you do not keep injecting into the same spot since it can break down the muscle. it should only be done for a max of 3 days. if the sinus are inflamed you can inject into those and it will not harm them like putting it into the breast muscles.

how big are your chickens? LF or bantams? like someone else said they have bantams and give 1/4cc per bird. LF are usually 3 to 4 times larger so i would multiply it by that. with the peafowl i would stick to the same size dosing of a LF chicken but you might have better luck either with the peafowl section of the forum. or you can also check the United Peafowl website. i believe there is something on there about respiratory remedies on there about using the Tylan 50.

your peafowl shouldn't be with your chickens since they can get a lot of bad diseases from them, similar to why turkeys should not be in with chickens.

I have a mixture. The bantams got 1/4 cc, standards got 1/2 cc and the peafowl got 3/4 cc. I was told when I purchased my peafowl that they could live with chickens, no problem... now I am rethinking my set up and possibly separating them out. I learn something new every day with these birds!!​
 
Well, I wanted to update. I ended up losing 5 of 32 birds. I did Tylan -50 injections for 3 days and Oxytetracycline in the water for 5. We seem to be out of the woods and besides a few sneezes here and there. Everyone is getting back to good. It was quite the experience to inject 32 angry birds! What a trooper! Best news of all... my peacock is doing GREAT!!! We plan to sterilize the coop in the next few days and put down fresh bedding. We are throwing out the eggs for 21 days. Boo.

Thanks again for all the helpful advice!!
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