Swollen Cheek, Eye Swelled Shut - Looking for suggestions

[hensintheHOUse]

How does your chicken breath now? If she opens her mouth to breath, her nose is blocked by sinus infection.

She was hospitalized.. her symtom was like yours, but also less appetite.

In the site ( Japanese avian vet), In the bird world, they pretend not to show their sickness, otherwise the stronger one will attack to eat.
Your chicken may try to be normal. Is she really eating well?

The bird was given eye drops, antibiotic, and I.V fluids in the hospital.

Quote: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/275285/treating-sinus-infection-in-a-chicken


Tylan is a really good choice to try.

 

[Mike Fitz]

She definitely is eating well, I walked out earlier with a plate of broccoli and wheat grass and she jumped up and tried to tear it out of my hand when I walked in the run. I'm heading out to clean the coop so I'll sit with her and see if she's breathing through her mouth or not.

 

[Mike Fitz]

So I sat her in my lap (of course one of the barred rocks had to join in) for a few minutes. Her beak is just barely open, you have to look just right to see it. No noises at all, no sneezes, raspy breathing, no mucus or bubbles. I put a drop of Vet Rx by her nostril, maybe won't help much but I've got it so what the heck. Still waiting for UPS to deliver the Tylan soluble and make the switch from Duramycin..

 

[hensintheHOUse]

hmmm... exactly.... what the heck it is..

I hope you can get the Tylan very soon! Good luck to your chicken!

 

[Mike Fitz]

Thanks so much! If she's not showing any improvement over the next few days after the switch to Tylan soluble in the water I'll head to the feed store for Tylan 50 and syringes and try that. I hope she gets better, she's always the first one to the run door to see what treats I'm bringing and follows me to the door when I leave, she's really a sweet girl.

 

[hensintheHOUse]

That sounds a lovely chicken!

I forgot to mention about the soft shell egg that she laid. She may need more calcium as well like oyster shell? Does she eat that?
Or you can give her human calcium to prevent to have her egg bounded, or internal layers.. which is awful.

 

[Mike Fitz]

I do have crushed oyster shell in a hanging dispenser in the run that they're eating and they're on layer pellets so she should be OK with calcium. Her eggs were fine until that one, I found a mess under the roost where it looked like the outer shell had opened on impact but was really soft and there was another smaller soft shelled egg still intact next to the yolk. She hasn't laid since then.

 

[hensintheHOUse]

I think that you better watch out to make sure that she is eating the egg shell as well to get enough calcium, also not to be hydrated, which is important.
my chicken has had internal layers after she had been laying something like the eggs ( soft shells, pointy shaped egg, some bumps on the eggs etc..) on and off for a year.


Or she started molting ?? that cause stop laying an egg too.. You may know but I better say anything come up on my head.

 

[Mike Fitz]

Hah! I appreciate the thoughts, believe me. She's only 5 months old so no molting yet. Maybe related to whatever is wrong with her, she laid her first egg the Monday before Christmas and was laying daily until Sunday when it started. I'll mix some crushed egg shell in with the treats to make sure she's getting plenty of calcium just in case.

 

[Eggcessive]

Thanks so much for all the responses! I'll switch over to the Tylan this afternoon assuming the UPS driver doesn't get stuck in the snow and delivers it. Since I've already started all of them on Duramycin and am not sure if what she has hasn't been spread would it be better in this case to just keep her with the rest and treat them all? The only place I could put her away from the others would be in the brooder but it's being used by a little bantam hen that's having some different issues.

I think she is fine with the others--I just suggested not giving the others the Tylan, and to do that you would probably need to keep her in a crate within the coop and run. But if she would be very upset in a cage, it might not work for you. Sounds like you are really fond of your chickens.