Respiratory issue? Worms? *poop pictures included*

[centrarchid]

You guys are getting a little aggressive with the medications. Post a picture of your birds being treated. Best time is early in morning when temperatures cooler and everyone should be wide awake. You do not have to worm all birds that are kept free-range or otherwise. Some of mine nor their ancestors have ever been wormed. When so treating, do it only when needed.

 

[Eggcessive]

Just some sneezing and the one has a stinky runny nose. They all look great and are eating and drinking great. The one that "yawns" breathes with her mouth open sometimes during the day and it is not warm in my yard. She is the only one doing that.
Nobody fluffing feathers or huddling together so I think they are ok as far as temperature goes. I think the Wazine killed whatever was causing the bloodier poops. Last week there were a ton in the run with small amounts of blood, now not so much, just those few from over night. So poop looks good now if those are normal! I didn't realize chickens had to be wormed and they were free ranging

. I swear I'm not a total idiot!!

The blood in this age may have been more from cocci than worms. Sometimes it's hard to tell if it is intestinal she in the poop, but if you see a lot of red blood or the chick is lethargic, then think cocci. They all get exposed to it and hopefully will build up immunity.
The yawning can be her adjusting her crop as all birds do occasionally. I really didn't mean for you to buy out the store in meds, but just to point out which medicines treat different diseases. I always think it is best to find out what is wrong first, and not guess and treat blindly. If you are not seeing blood anymore, I would concentrate on finishing the Duramycin that you had already started. If this is caused by a virus, the Duramycin will only help prevent a secondary infection, since antibiotics won't treat a virus. Re-read the link for diseases: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044

 

[birdlady79]

Wazine is used for roundworms... Safeguard us used for diff types of worms... I personally use safegaurd.... I agree with @Eggcessive , it sounds like Corzya, bc of the smell and Gaping is a sign of respitory... corzya is highly contagious, so I would treat all with Sulmet, and seperate the 1 who's the worst.. Do you have a local feed store that would sell Sulmet? If so, I would take them off Duraymicin , it's weak, and start them on Sulmet.... It's harder on their system than Corid, so it needs to be followed up with probotics .... If Sulmet doesn't take care of it, then I would use the Tylan 50.... Like @Eggcessive stated, Tylan 50 is good for respitory ... My birds free range, it's hot and humid here and I de worm all of my flock! Everyone is diff, but I've got mine on a worming schedule... @Dawg53 is great with worming questions...

 

[Nwchickma]

I'll finish the duramycin since nobody had taken a then for the worse and hope the sneezing and runny nose goes away. If they get worse I'll switch to tylan.
I think I freaked out the moment anything was off BC I've read so many things on here where people lost their chickens. Here is a photo, I have 3girls and 1roo. I just took these, they have been in the yard about 30 mins.

My welsummer is the one with the runny nose

Also sneezy

The one "yawning"

 

[Nwchickma]

OK, I hope people are still reading this. I did 8 days of the duramycin and still had one sneezing a lot! So today was day 4 of Tylan50. I did probiotics in the water all week as well. The sneezing hasn't gotten better. I couldn't find sulmet so I don't have any. Thoughts on where to go from here? Her behavior is normal, she's eating normally and her eyes are clear. Am I worrying about nothing? I use sand in my run, no shavings and I have a pretty well ventilated coop.

 

[Eggcessive]

Do you still notice the bad odor around the head? I think because the sneezing has continued so long, that you maybe have infectious bronchitis. They can get a secondary infection of MG or coryza, which may be helped by antibiotics, but the IB virus has to run it's course over 4-5 weeks. Here is a link to read: http://www.merckmanuals.com/vet/pou...view_of_infectious_bronchitis_in_poultry.html

 

[Nwchickma]

Thanks Eggcessive! I read that and goggled it. She doesn't have any other symptoms so I'm hoping that's not it since it's morbidity rate is really high. It does kind of stink though.
What would you do if this was your chicken? Just wait and see? More/different antibiotics?

 

[Eggcessive]

Morbidity means the percentage that may get sick--the mortality rate is the percentage that can die. IB has about a 100% morbidity rate, but a much lower mortality rate. It is higher with chicks and younger chickens. Are there any other symptoms right now other than sneezing? If not, I wouldn't do anything else yet.

 

[Nwchickma]

Well clearly didn't read that right! Thank you, maybe watery poop but that is it, still eating. No puffed up feathers, or depressed behaviors. No facial swelling either.