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[Garden Peas]

I have treated it in five peacocks before with Tylan 200, you can still treat him!

@q8peafowl , how long had those five birds had the swelling when you started the Tylan 200? Did you inject the sinus area itself? How many times? Was the swelling hardened, or still soft?

Can you post photos?

Have you had to do surgery to remove hardened masses from the sinuses before?

I have not heard that it is possible to get it to go down without surgery if it has been there a long time and has hardened into a gooey or solid mass. I would be very interested to hear if someone has managed to get it to resolve without surgery after it is hardened.

Also, if there is a lot of swelling, an area can feel tight and hard from the pressure.... that's different from a mass that has hardened from drying out and thickening fluid. If the stuff is still thin, even if pressing hard, I think it could resolve with antibiotics. It's the thickened goo that can't get out which causes the need for surgery.

 

[KsKingBee]

I agree with Garden Peas. That swelling has been there for quite a long time, it may be too hardened to dissolve back into the birds system. Perhaps you can be ready to inject the sinus IF and only IF the sinus is soft and squishy. If it feels hardened I would not inject it, if you do, the dosage I used on the turkeys was one ml, and only one time. I would follow with injections in the neck, under the skin for two more days and if it is responding positively, two or three more days.

All that being said, I think that infection is going to be hard and cutting it out will be the best for the bird. Go back a few pages and read how Kyle helped his bird, he had zero experience, although he did have a good helper.

 

[KsKingBee]

@q8peafowl , how long had those five birds had the swelling when you started the Tylan 200? Did you inject the sinus area itself? How many times? Was the swelling hardened, or still soft?

Can you post photos?

Have you had to do surgery to remove hardened masses from the sinuses before?

I have not heard that it is possible to get it to go down without surgery if it has been there a long time and has hardened into a gooey or solid mass. I would be very interested to hear if someone has managed to get it to resolve without surgery after it is hardened.

Also, if there is a lot of swelling, an area can feel tight and hard from the pressure.... that's different from a mass that has hardened from drying out and thickening fluid. If the stuff is still thin, even if pressing hard, I think it could resolve with antibiotics. It's the thickened goo that can't get out which causes the need for surgery.

We had a young bird last year that was pretty swollen and did not respond to the injections. I don't know the mechanics or why it worked, but I held the bird while DW used Q-tips through the swollen eye socket and she dug, and squeezed, and dug, and squeezed and that cottage cheese kept oozing and oozing out, OMG I nearly hurled.

In the end the bird responded to the injections and is alive and happy, but what an experience!

 

[zazouse]

Finally my male is fanning. Or at least that I've seen and got pictures of.

Pretty

 

[cajunfowl0]

Update:The area is soft and there is a spot where I could easily squeeze some out

 

[cajunfowl0]

I have some vetrx that will help with the mucus and cold symptoms he has and after I'll give him a shot I think

 

[zazouse]

We had a young bird last year that was pretty swollen and did not respond to the injections. I don't know the mechanics or why it worked, but I held the bird while DW used Q-tips through the swollen eye socket and she dug, and squeezed, and dug, and squeezed and that cottage cheese kept oozing and oozing out, OMG I nearly hurled.

In the end the bird responded to the injections and is alive and happy, but what an experience!

Just the thought of something coming out of an eye that resembles a zit would make me queasy, does that stuff smell cause it would send me over the edge if it does, i can deal with most visual things but there are some smells that will make me puke like when something is dead.

 

[zazouse]

Update:The area is soft and there is a spot where I could easily squeeze some out

How did that spot develop? i never read where anyone just found an eruption

 

[cajunfowl0]

How did that spot develop? i never read where anyone just found an eruption  

It first showed up when he was one after a quick visit to the vet it went away then it came back when he was three and it's been here since maybe 4-5 months

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

@q8peafowl , how long had those five birds had the swelling when you started the Tylan 200? Did you inject the sinus area itself? How many times? Was the swelling hardened, or still soft?

Can you post photos?

Have you had to do surgery to remove hardened masses from the sinuses before?

I have not heard that it is possible to get it to go down without surgery if it has been there a long time and has hardened into a gooey or solid mass. I would be very interested to hear if someone has managed to get it to resolve without surgery after it is hardened.

Also, if there is a lot of swelling, an area can feel tight and hard from the pressure.... that's different from a mass that has hardened from drying out and thickening fluid. If the stuff is still thin, even if pressing hard, I think it could resolve with antibiotics. It's the thickened goo that can't get out which causes the need for surgery.

1- I think it was 2 weeks.
2- I asked the vet to inject the sinus area with half cc of Tylan 200.
3- Just one shot, because they got better in a few days.
4- It was soft.
5- Sorry i don't have photos, but it wasn't that bad like cajunfowl peacock.
6- Nope, but in this thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/504944/swollen-side-of-face-cyst-surgery some members suggest to let the sinus area bleed first before injecting it.