Sick chickens diagnosis and treatment

[MagnoliaAcres]

@Eggcessive, help?

Did you quarantine your new birds before adding them to your flock.

Can you post pictures of the poop and the chickens in question. Please take current pictures.

We failed at quarantine. Will send some
Pics tomorrow.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Sounds like the new birds may have brought in an illness.
You can try treating with an antibiotic like Tylosin to see if that helps.

Photos of the poop and birds would be good.

Look everyone over for lice/mites.
You mention seeing blood in the poop? Consider treating everyone for Coccidiosis and worms too. Corid and Safeguard both can be found at TSC.

Liquid Corid dose is 2tsp per gallon of water given for 5-7 days in a row.
Safeguard dose is 0.23ml per pound of weight given orally once a day for 5 day in row.
These can be given in conjunction with antibiotics.

 

[MagnoliaAcres]

Sounds like the new birds may have brought in an illness.
You can try treating with an antibiotic like Tylosin to see if that helps.

Photos of the poop and birds would be good.

Look everyone over for lice/mites.
You mention seeing blood in the poop? Consider treating everyone for Coccidiosis and worms too. Corid and Safeguard both can be found at TSC.

Liquid Corid dose is 2tsp per gallon of water given for 5-7 days in a row.
Safeguard dose is 0.23ml per pound of weight given orally once a day for 5 day in row.
These can be given in conjunction with antibiotics.

How do I administer the Tylosin?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

How do I administer the Tylosin?

What do you have, powder or liquid injectable?

 

[MagnoliaAcres]

What do you have, powder or liquid injectable?

Tylan 200 injectable

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Tylan 200 injectable

OK, then you would give that orally.

Dose for Tylan200 at 25mg/kg would be 0.056mg/ml per pound of weight given 3 times a day for 5 days.

 

[MagnoliaAcres]

OK, then you would give that orally.

Dose for Tylan200 at 25mg/kg would be 0.056mg/ml per pound of weight given 3 times a day for 5 days.

Thanks. Any tips on how to best administer meds orally to chicken?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Thanks. Any tips on how to best administer meds orally to chicken?

The article linked shows you how. I see roundworms in the poop, so I would also treat with the Safeguard.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/

You mention seeing blood in the poop? Consider treating everyone for Coccidiosis and worms too. Corid and Safeguard both can be found at TSC.

Liquid Corid dose is 2tsp per gallon of water given for 5-7 days in a row.
Safeguard dose is 0.23ml per pound of weight given orally once a day for 5 day in row.
These can be given in conjunction with antibiotics.

 

[Tclloyd0812]

I would definitely be cautious with these symptoms and watch your flock closely for developing symptoms and keep a closed flock for at least a few weeks until you find out what this is.

We had the same experience a few years ago with our original flock. We introduced 9-10 new laying hens that came from a local mennonite egg farm. We quarantined them and didn't see anything wrong with them so we introduced them to our original flock. We unknowingly introduced mareks and mycoplasma to our flock and slowly our original flock started deteriorating and dying off. The ones that didn't pass were culled sadly. Just be careful with these symptoms because they sound bad. Good luck!

 

[MagnoliaAcres]

The article linked shows you how. I see roundworms in the poop, so I would also treat with the Safeguard.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/

Thanks so much for the help. I’ll get treatment started and Hope for improvement. Just to clarify the Tylan dosage, if I have a 6 lb bird, she would receive .34 ml of Tylan 3x day? Also, do I discard any eggs laid during this time and for how long?