Sneezing

[mckaylaburgess]

How common is sneezing? One of my girls sneezed maybe 3 times while I was in the run today over the course of 20 minutes. She didn’t have swollen eyes or any discharge from her mouth or nose. How concerned should I be?

 

[Isaac 0]

Sneezing can occur in fowl when feed dust or other environmental aerosol contaminants are inhaled into the respiratory system. If you're observing it more regularly, it's plausible she is suffering from a respiratory disease such as Infectious bronchitis which frequently results in mild respiratory symptoms, like sneezing.

I would suggest a thorough inspection over your setup to ensure there are no predisposing factors such as the ones suggested above to induce the sneezing you're seeing. After correcting any potential problems, you're still seeing sneezing it's probable she has something like IB, fortunately, the virus tends to go away on its own without any measures needed.

 

[Myrshine]

Infectious Bronchitis actually isn’t as common, Chronic Respiratory Disease (CRD), also commonly known as Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG) and Infectious Coryza would be the cause.

I personally do NOT believe your birds are sick just because they’re sneezing, they can sneeze for many reasons, most commonly from eating or drinking water as well as dusty or moldy bedding. I wouldn’t worry about it, unless other symptoms show up.

 

[Isaac 0]

Infectious Bronchitis actually isn’t as common, Chronic Respiratory Disease (CRD), also commonly known as Mycoplasma Gallisepticum (MG) and Infectious Coryza would be the cause.

I personally do NOT believe your birds are sick just because they’re sneezing, they can sneeze for many reasons, most commonly from eating or drinking water as well as dusty or moldy bedding. I wouldn’t worry about it, unless other symptoms show up.

Infectious Bronchitis (IB) is common worldwide and usually presents itself with mild respiratory symptoms. Mild strains of mycoplasma Galliseptcum can look similar to IB from a symptomatic standpoint, so determining which one it might be would rely on diagnostic tests. Coryza is less common than both and is mainly restricted to the SW portion of the states, and is mainly characterized by infraorbital swelling.

Considering that one bird is affected, and the symptoms are mild, I can agree the symptoms are likely correlated to an environmental factor as I previously suggested.

 

[mckaylaburgess]

Thank you all. Yesterday she didn’t sneeze while I was in there, and today she met me at the door sneezing. Still no other symptoms, no eye swelling or mucous from the nose or mouth. I did put down new shavings two days ago.