Sick meat chicks, need fast advice

[DadandJB]

When I checked on the chicks this morning, everything seemed fine. When I got home from work, the DW informed me that one of the younger meat chicks had died. She also said that one was congested. I immediately went to the coop and checked on them. One of the chicks is indeed congested and another sounds like it is getting it too. Up until today, all of the chicks have been completely healthy and trouble free. Here are the answers to the sticky questions:



1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.)
Type Cornish X, age, 3 weeks, weight about 1 pound. It does not feel or look thinner or lighter that the others.


2) What is the behavior, exactly.
Congestion when breathing, some sneezing.


3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms?
Less than 12 hours.


4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms?
Yes, one other at this time.


5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma.
No.


6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
Nothing.


7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.
Eating 24% protien chick starter, drinking water with 1/2 Tbsp ACV w/mother.


8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.
Normal.


9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far?
None.


10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet?
Self treatment if possible. Preventing or treating the entire flock if necessary.


11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
I do not.


12) Describe the housing/bedding in use
Housing is an insulated chicken coop with a three chamber brooder system. Bedding is pine shavings. This particular chick is housed with 18 others of the same age in a 16 square foot brooder with a heat lamp. Next to that brooder are two other brooders of the same size. One contains 9 CX, 4 weeks old. The other brooder contains 15 laying chicks (6 black australorps, 6 amberlinks, and 3 red sexlinks, also 4 weeks old.

Thank you.

 

[realsis]

hi i would use tylosin or tylan 50 injectable. it is excellent for respiratory illness. dose is for large birds 1/2 cc small birds 1/4 cc.once daily for 5 days.not to worry that the bottle says for cattle or swine many poultry users use tylan with great success including myself. i also looked up your symptoms in The chicken health handbook. the recommended treatment in the book is either tylosin which is tylan or gallimycin. I'd choose tylan because its quite strong and with injection you can control dose better than with water soluble antibiotic.when they are ill they tend to not drink as they should making it harder to get a good dose of water soluble antibiotic. you should see improvements in a few days. you can give the shot in the breast area . if you have never injected before this may sound silly but YouTube has a great instructional video on how to do it. look up "injecting chickens with tylan" you will find the video. its very helpful. you can get tylan 50 and syringe at feed store. i hope this is helpful! i wish you the best! the chicken health handbook is a really great book to have on hand its a treasure of information and causes and treatments among other things in it! i got mine off amazon for around 20.00$. my thoughts are with you and i wish you the best. hope things go well! good luck to you.