Poorly Pullet ? swollen face ( dont think its Coryza) Please help

[Xfranc]

Hi,

I got a Blue Haze Hybrid at POL on saturday,

Now we have had some problems with our 3 other chickens with RSD like symptoms and they are being treated with antibiotics for it.

I checked this Pullet really good, she looked fine, no sneezing vent looked nice , nice clear eyes, feathers checked all of it.

We let her in with the other girls and there was a pecking order settled, but they seemed to hit it of, at night they all went to bed together.

In the morning I found 2 eggs , acually one (very soft) egg shell opeend, and one tiny little Soft intact egg on the landing, this must have been the pullets, I was a bit freaked out and called my husband, then I saw my girlie!!

She had the sid eof the face swollen like a baloon typical Coryza look, and she had laods of flem in her mouth, I picked her up and put her to the side in her own box.

We cleaned her beak out and my husband thinks she might have eaten the egg? therefor the see though slug trail gunk in her mouth?

Anyway she lives in her box, seems to be rather fine, she eats and drinks, but there is no improvement on the face swelling.

we are giving her some Baytril along with the other birds, but she is on her own.

Anyone have any idea what might be going on ??

Im wondering if this is egg related or if she was sick or if she got sick from my birds??


Even so none of my girlies had any swelling of the face like this and Im thinking the incubation time and breakout is pobably not going to be less then 24h?

Ive sent in a picture of both her sides,

She has no other signs of illness other then being a bit lethargic, and weary..

Please help me if anyone thinks they might know.

Hugs

Kat and Dan

This is her good side

and the bad one ..

??

 

[NotTheMomma]

Perhaps one of them pecked her? I'd keep the antibiotics going, and for future, don't put a new bird in with yours until 30 days have lapsed.

Hugs, and a bump!

 

[threehorses]

A bit lethargic and weary are signs of illness.

Anytime you put poultry together without a quarantine time before, you're throwing together two differing batches of diseases that have been obtained and then an immunity built. Only, the two batches of chickens won't have each others' immunites.

They're swapping diseases.

Keep them more separate, definitely DO do the Baytril every single day recommended now that you've started it. Baytril is not a drug to mess around with, so please give it for the entire time as I'm sure you were already aware.

Baytril is also a very very harsh drug on the intestinal system. Please give living probiotics during this time and two weeks after. Especially since you've just introduced a new bird.

Boost their immunity in non-antibiotic ways. Make sure their nutrition is optimal, their water clean (ACV is all I'd add to it, organic). Do the sick chickens last, really I'd change clothes between them both for now. And next time, quarantine a little longer.

She's a beauty though! Congrats!

 

[Xfranc]

I was really worried this could have had something to do with those 2 softshelled broken eggs she layed ...

I will deff keep them apart and make sure I have proper facilities to keep them separate .

Kat and Dan

 

[threehorses]

Chickens will often not lay normally when they're fighting an illness. She'll probably need a good diet makeover. Calcium absorbtion, btw, is directly related to vitamin D intake.

Sometimes to boost calcium absorbtion, I'll give plain yogurt every other day for a week - then reevaluate my feed. The yogurt helps their digestive flora (which overall helps nutrition intake), is a source of a little extra calcium, and can contain vitamin D. Check the label for fortification before you buy it.

There are also some A/D/E supplements on the market, like wheat germ oil (at the feedstore). E is a remarkable antioxidant that also helps to ward off E. coli. A is the most easily degraded vitamin in poultry foods. And D helps calcium absorbtion. You wouldn't want to give a lot or often. Just every once in a while, once a or twice a month, for heavy layers. I'd just put a cap full in a half gallon of food, stir thoroughly.