sneezing chickens

[Suzierd]

It sounds like MG if you decide not to cull I would treat with Tylan, I like the soluble type you put in water.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044

 

[Pete79]

Hello. I registered specifically cause I saw this post. I just had the sneezing chickens horrors, and hope I can offer something here. Mine was environmental, mould spores in the straw. It was bad. What breed are your birds, because some of my birds dealt with it better than others? I lost 20 of 26 cornish cross, and it happened fast. My red sussex were completely unaffected. Yours sounds like could be biological based (I had no nasal discharge), in which case get them on water soluble tylan. Get apple cider vinegar in their water, and try and get raw grated garlic down them (it helps out their circulation if their respiratory system is under stress). Get the sneezers out of where they are, that'll help to isolate the cause, be it environmental or biological. Get them out of their environment, away from stress and temperature fluctuations, electrolytes in water, ACV, and some tylan to control infection (or secondary infection if it is environmental). The main thing I found was supportive care; if their respiratory system is under stress, you need to reduce further stresses on the lungs and circulatory system. If any die, pull them out and have a look inside (while still fresh if you can), if it is environmental and caused by particles in the air, you will see greyish discoloured areas on the lungs and yellowish creamy coloured areas formed in the air sacs behind the lungs. I spoke with an animal pathologist after my horrors, and was told that biological infection will frequently show as lesions and haemorrhaging in the lungs and air sacs. Hope it works out for you, because my issue was stressful and very difficult to manage effectively. Apparently, this sort of stuff hits the meat birds way harder than the egg layers and dual purpose birds. Best of luck.

 

[JoePa]

Any chicken that is suspected of having a respiratory disease should be culled - trying to cure it only provides a avenue for the disease to spread and endanger other chickens - if people would cull their sick chickens everyone would be better off - if you have a hard time culling chickens get someone to do it for you - otherwise you shouldn't be raising them - a lot of diseases would be less frequent if people didn't try to cure them - I know it might be hard for some people to do this but it's a fact of life - the way things are -

 

[Pete79]

"Any chicken that is suspected of having a respiratory disease should be culled - trying to cure it only provides a avenue for the disease to spread and endanger other chickens - if people would cull their sick chickens everyone would be better off - if you have a hard time culling chickens get someone to do it for you - otherwise you shouldn't be raising them - a lot of diseases would be less frequent if people didn't try to cure them - I know it might be hard for some people to do this but it's a fact of life - the way things are -"

Sounds like a plan and a half for biological infections to me.

 

[miss silky]

My chickens came down with sneezing too! One started, with sneezing then a cough, the second started sneezing with a runny nose, we had tried using hay left overfrom halloween, so we changedthat outandputthe usual grass. Gave them the homopathic recipe for kale,garlic mashed in olive oil- didn,t work! So we started them on tetra- something which is an antibiotic from our local feed store, funny how it was the last one they had, they actually had to holdit till i gotthere.its only been 5 days, u treat for 14. I haven,t seen a difference yet.

 

[miss silky]

My chickens aren,t that sick to kill, plus their pets, and i only have three, not to mention my dog usuallykillsthem before they start laying, i don,t want to loose the three i,ve had since last spring. Now that we,ve formed a bond. They each have their job, one looks out for everyone, one searches for different yummies, the other is the peace keeper, and the largest.

 

[miss silky]

I had tried using left over hay from halloween, i think it ot wet so enviormental makes sense, i had immediately cleaned it out and put the usual grass in, but still two outta three are sneezing, i tried the kale, garlic,olive oil, only when that didn,t work i started em on antibiotic, we even added a light, to find out we dodn,t have to keep them warm, so we tarped up the open sides and improved the roost.

 

[miss silky]

Need help. We built this awsome coop outta scraps and it absorbed water the last year and now it seems damp in the house. Everything froze recently and it looks like an igloo, inside too. We started building a new and improved one cause our 2 outta 3 ladies are sick. Is it environmental?

 

[Sunflower]

I would say it is environmental. Coops need to at least be dry. But they do need ventilation, as well, but not so much that the chickens will be in a draft. Good luck with the new one. We did the same thing, made our first coop out of scraps - it just wasn't big enough or dry either. The new one is like a garden shed w/ electricity for a fan in the summer and heat lights in winter. I've been reading that damp coops can cause lots of problems. Chickens can be a lot of work and not "cheap" either.

haha!!

 

[miss silky]

Its what you put into it that you get out, huh?i,ve totally taken this to another level, last year we only had one hen threw the winter, having 3 this year upped the dampness,humidity,everything changed! I,m not a farmer but love animals, and want to conquer this! Yes my brown eggs come with a huge price tag