Respiratory Disease. What would you do?

[Miriah132]

My flock has suffered from a respiratory disease. We have not tested to see which one it is yet. The last egg I got from them was August 6th. All my girls are under 2 years. I really noticed symptoms August 18th after we got some rain(we don’t get much rain where we are). Should I cull the whole flock and start over? I have some very nice and expensive birds and would hate to do that. But if there is no hope for them starting to lay again, I don’t wanna keep them around. What would you do?

 

[casportpony]

I would get them tested before you died to cull.
See if this place can test one or more for you:
https://www.zoologix.com/avian/Datasheets/PoultryRespiratoryPanel.htm

 

[MissChick@dee]

Have you tried any type of treatment?

 

[hillbilly91]

Vetrx from tractor supply. Follow the directions. If they don't get any better in a week cull

 

[Miriah132]

Have you tried any type of treatment?

Yes. Tylosin. I have a rathe rbig flock so we used the water soluble. For 7 days.

 

[MissChick@dee]

Kind of hard to ensure that all get the dosage they need when just offering it in water. My recommendation would probably be unrealistic for you. It would be a process to treat each with antibiotics injectables are easier and quicker and orals with a syringe can be quick too. You’d have to have somewhat of an assembly line (weight,inject or dispense)repeat. I don’t have a lot of birds so each one to me is of great personal value. It’s a hard call. And I’m not you I don’t envy your situation at all. Sure sorry this had to happen to you and your birds.
Please do a necropsy so you’ll know. Could be your coop and runs could have contamination that requires special attention before you can safely keep chickens again.
Man...I’m just so sorry for you truly. Best wishes

 

[Miriah132]

Kind of hard to ensure that all get the dosage they need when just offering it in water. My recommendation would probably be unrealistic for you. It would be a process to treat each with antibiotics injectables are easier and quicker and orals with a syringe can be quick too. You’d have to have somewhat of an assembly line (weight,inject or dispense)repeat. I don’t have a lot of birds so each one to me is of great personal value. It’s a hard call. And I’m not you I don’t envy your situation at all. Sure sorry this had to happen to you and your birds.
Please do a necropsy so you’ll know. Could be your coop and runs could have contamination that requires special attention before you can safely keep chickens again.
Man...I’m just so sorry for you truly. Best wishes

Thank you. It’s heart breaking. I’ve worked so hard on this flock. I keep a pretty closed flock unless i bring in birds from reliable sources and always implement quarantine. I guess they heard that they were going to a show in few weeks and decided they didn’t want to go. Oral and I jectables isn’t really an option for us at the moment, unfortunately.

 

[Miriah132]

I would get them tested before you died to cull.
See if this place can test one or more for you:
https://www.zoologix.com/avian/Datasheets/PoultryRespiratoryPanel.htm

Would that be a swab that I do myself? I figured I would need to find a state vet to do the testing.

 

[casportpony]

Would that be a swab that I do myself? I figured I would need to find a state vet to do the testing.

Call them and ask. I friend of mine used them and was quite happy with them. Not happy with the results, but happy with the service.

 

[Miriah132]

Call them and ask. I friend of mine used them and was quite happy with them. Not happy with the results, but happy with the service.

Will do. Thank you