Puffy face and watery eyes

[chickenpeeple]

My hen ,Peanut, has watery eyes, the right side of her face is all puffed up and she's acting a little bit slower than normal. She will eat treats and is still pecking around in the yard but she's not too interested in her food. I gave her 15 drops of 250 parts per millon collodail silver and I put 2 drops around her eye. One of my hens had this same thing about a year ago but it was worse.

 

[azygous]

You likely have a respiratory virus in your flock that activates once in while in a chicken that has suffered stress. Tylan 50 is the antibiotic of choice for this ailment. You can get it at any feed store.

It can be administered in .5ml doses orally twice and day for five days. A needle syringe is required to extract the dose from the vial but can be given without the needle into the beak.

 

[Eggcessive]

You might be dealing with mycoplasma or MG, a chronic respiratory disease in chickens.

It can be difficult to find Tylan 50 presently. But you can get Tylan powder for the water here, and give 1 tsp per gallon of water for 5 days to treat MG symptoms in only chickens who have symptoms:
https://www.jedds.com/shop/tylan-soluble-100-g/

Here is some reading anout MG:
https://extension.umd.edu/sites/ext... Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) Infecti....pdf

 

[chickenpeeple]

Do you think the colloidal silver will help? It fixed my hen with the reproductive infection.
And is it contagious?

 

[Eggcessive]

That is up to you. I would use Tylan myself. You can get some testing to confirm if it is MG. MG is contagious, and can be common in many backyard flocks. It may not cause illness in your other birds, but they may have been exposed previously, and she is the only one showing symptoms.

 

[chickenpeeple]

Ok. One of my girls had the puffy face and watery eyes about a year ago and we didn't quarantine her so they're all probably carriers.

 

[chickenpeeple]

The swelling is all most gone and she's doing better.But now they've found vND in wild waterfowl in MN so I have to worry about that.

 

[Eggcessive]

Glad that she is better. Yes, MG can make carriers of the flock, and can cause a bird to get symptoms occasionally. What did you use to treat the chicken?

I would not worry too much about Newcastles yet, since it has only been found in some wild birds. Just keep up good biosecurity measures, such as not visiting other poultry farms, poultry shows, or swap meets, preventing wild birds from eating or drinking from your feeders and waterers, and just watching for symptoms in your birds. Here is a link about the MN findings:
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MNBAH/bulletins/254d447

 

[chickenpeeple]

Ok, thank you. I did just get 3 orpington bantams that I'm going to show in the fair but we are keeping them separate from our other birds.