Swollen eye/face on oneside and snoring sound. HELP!*updated with pics

[deerman]

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you can also give them a little suger water that way if they don't drinks.....odd they all have it at once.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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you can also give them a little suger water that way if they don't drinks.....odd they all have it at once.

Not a bit odd, it's obviously something contagious that they've all caught from each other. The weather getting cooler has stressed them out and made them all show symptoms.

 

[undergroundchickens]

Is there a way to get a definite diagnosis that is not to costly and does not cost a bird its life? I would like to be sure of what I am dealing with. If it is one of the terrible diseases that will just live on in my birds and could subject other birds in the future to this disease I may have to consider culling. I also have lots of wild birds (house finches to ring neck doves) that visit my yard and eat from my husbands working dogs dishes and with winter kicking in they have started to eat from my birds feeder. These wild birds could spread this to other flocks they may visit? If so I need to really do some thinking here with a definite diagnosis.

 

[deerman]

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you can also give them a little suger water that way if they don't drinks.....odd they all have it at once.

Not a bit odd, it's obviously something contagious that they've all caught from each other. The weather getting cooler has stressed them out and made them all show symptoms.

Reason thinking its odd Sinus infection .....all of them at same time....thinking now maybe Corza . if so all birds will need culled ,as even if cure they become carriers. Sinus infection will spread few birds at a time.

 

[chickenzoo]

If you talk to your local Dept of Animal & Agriculture, they may be able to help. Also, here getting NPIP tested is free, and if you have any illness going on they will give it in the report.

Corzya will most often have a fowl smell about the face. Their is a vaccine for it, but the bird has to get over it before you can vaccinate them, then after re vaccination if it reoccurred then you know that bird is a carrier.

Sinus infections are often caused by MG, another carrier state. But there are new meds out there to help control some of it.

 

[undergroundchickens]

Corzya will most often have a fowl smell about the face.

My girls smell about the same to me as usual but I have a slight cold. I asked my daughter to smell them. She says they just smell like outside like normal. My son says they stink but he has always told me that from day old chicks.

My Husband wont get close enough to smell them, he is afraid he will catch what they have.

One bird in the bunch (6) has no sign of infection upon closer inspection except maybe a runny nose? She just got done drinking when I looked her over and took her picture. I took pictures of them all if you would like me to post them I can. I have hope they might get better though as one that had a very swollen eye yesterday can now open it most of the way.

I tried to suck some puss out of my BR's face. All I got was blood. She is so swollen it hurts to look at.

I will look into trying to get a diagnosis. Our local vet should be open tomorrow and I am thinking about giving them a call to see if they could help in that department.

Again...thank you to all who have helped out with this. I truly appreciate it.​

 

[deerman]

Ok this sounds better, go ahead give the tylan for 5 days .Should see results in a day or two. the one BR eye may not go all the way down , just a wait and see.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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My girls smell about the same to me as usual but I have a slight cold. I asked my daughter to smell them. She says they just smell like outside like normal. My son says they stink but he has always told me that from day old chicks.

My Husband wont get close enough to smell them, he is afraid he will catch what they have.

One bird in the bunch (6) has no sign of infection upon closer inspection except maybe a runny nose? She just got done drinking when I looked her over and took her picture. I took pictures of them all if you would like me to post them I can. I have hope they might get better though as one that had a very swollen eye yesterday can now open it most of the way.

I tried to suck some puss out of my BR's face. All I got was blood. She is so swollen it hurts to look at.

I will look into trying to get a diagnosis. Our local vet should be open tomorrow and I am thinking about giving them a call to see if they could help in that department.

Again...thank you to all who have helped out with this. I truly appreciate it.

The one that doesn't have any symptoms, is she new? The reason I ask is because she might be the problem with the others. Of course it's too late now since they've all got it, but if one bird seems fine while all the others are sick, I would think that is the one that started it.

Personally, I don't think you have to cull. If you use your birds for eating eggs only (not hatching or selling hatching eggs, selling birds, showing, etc) then they pose no risk to each other. Though if you add any new birds to your flock they'd certainly catch it. Coryza and MG both turn into a type of virus where the bird is a carrier for life, though they will get 'better'. Whenever they get stressed though, the symptoms will come back.

But if you don't plan on selling birds, chicks, hatching eggs, or hatching eggs yourself, there's no reason why you can't keep your birds alive.

 

[undergroundchickens]

Yes we only eat their eggs.

I bought all 6 of my older girls (8 months old now) together as day olds from the local IFA. They have been perfectly healthy up until now. I hatched out 4 eggs trying to get blue and dark brown eggs. I suspect I have two roosters from this hatch and my female BCM died young. I didn't want to introduce one female to my older hens so I mail ordered 4 more pullets about the same age so I could get them to bond and then introduce them to the new girls when they were much older. I kept them in quarantine for 2 weeks and then introduced my chicks I hatched to them a week ago. They all stayed healthy (and still appear to be). I put them outside in their own heated coop about 5 days ago. My older girls free range in the back yard during the day. They went over and have checked out the new chicks through the fencing. I am guessing my older girls picked this up from them OR all the wild birds that visit the yard. The wild birds can not get into the enclosure with the chicks but can with the big girls. This is a definite mode of transmission as well so I don't know if I will ever know where they got this from.

I guess in the future if I get chicks again after these are all gone I will stick with them only. I don't think I like the idea that I may have given this to them because I wanted more colored eggs and added more chicks from different sources.

 

[undergroundchickens]

Here are my girls from worst to best.

Princess is the worst. Both eyes are swollen shut. She does have puss in her eyes and I have to keep soaking them to keep them from crusting shut. She won't eat or drink. I have been force watering her. She stayed in the coop all day today.

Pepper has one VERY swollen face only on one side. The other side is normal and her eye is clear. She is drinking but not eating today. She stayed in the coop for the morning but came out around noon. She walked around a bit but then fluffed up and sat in one place with her head under her wing so I placed her back in the coop where she stayed the rest of the day.

Scarlet has gunky nares and one swollen eye. No puss from the eye. She is eating/drinking and still running around today.

Roxy is the BR that had a swollen shut eye yesterday but today she can open it most of the way. She is eating/drinking and running around today.

Cocoa has a swollen sinus cavity. So far it hasn't bothered her eyes. She does have nasal discharge. She is eating/drinking and running around today.

Penny so far doesn't show any swelling. She might have a runny nose. She is running around and eating/drinking as normal today.

I dosed them all with Tylan this AM and plan to for the next 5 to 7 days. The coop is heated now for the last 3 days and I am keeping it around 65F now that they are sick. I planned on keeping it around 40F but now that they are sick I wil keep it warm for them. The weather went from cool but above freezing to sudden deep freeze (below freezing all night/day) for the last 5 days.