Puffy faces. Please Help.

[crazy chook]

I am hoping for you that it is not anything that serious and that your girls get over it fast.

I have an austrolorp chicken that at 12months old developed a cough and swollen face, two days later my x breed pullet 5months was showing the same symptoms.
Since all my girls live together in the one pen I gave them all OXY B in the water. No other chickens showed any signs of being sick and the 2 chickens were back to normal within the week.

I have since added 3 more chickens (which I hatched) to the flock and have seen no signs of illness since.

Hope all end up well for you. Best of luck, Donna

 

[ccrichard]

It's daylight and they are all still alive. Everyone is rattling this morning and they want out.
I am wondering if I should start Sulmet today, do you think that would interfere with any treatment that the Vet prescribes?
I am having a hard time just sitting back and doing nothing.

 

[ccrichard]

I just wanted to update on the puffy faces and respiratory thing we had going on. Seems my original flock of 4 was not vaccinated for anything so who knows what it was. The good news is they are all fine I would say 100%. it was hard to sit back and watch this evil sickness try to take my birds, but they all got through it. It took about 2 weeks to run its course. Hopefully that will be the end of it.
Since this has happened it forced me to do a lot of research and thanks to everyone here I have learned so much.
I have since started a vaccination program with all the babies with the help of a very good "chicken" friend.
All new hatched babies have been and all future birds will be vaccinated for Mareks, New Castle/IB and Pox.
Again, thank you all for your help and sharing your knowledge and experiences.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

I'm glad that your original flock all survived. Just be aware that if it was something other than what you are vaccinating for, they are carriers and can/will infect future birds. Also, something that our state poultry guy told me about vaccinating, was that if you are using a modified live virus (the only type I could fine for newcastle and coryza) the birds will shed the virus, and you will have it on your property. He advised against it unless your birds already had it and you were vaccinating asymptomatic birds or new birds coming in...