The EMERGENCY Thread!!!

[chickengr]

New Emergency

1. Mix of breeds: RIR, Brahma, Australorps and Barred Plymouth Rocks. All adult birds including, one hen with chicks, one hen sitting on eggs. Age range 1 year to 4 years old.

2. Almost the entire flock has come down with coughing and gurgling rattly sounds when breathing. Some are open mouth breathing. Symptoms are more apparent at night, but still obvious during the day just perhaps a little quieter. One hen has something going on with her eye as well. The eye has been closed, no discharge. I've been putting Terramycin in the eye as many times a day as I can. The eye is a cloudy colour.

3. Length of problem - 3 days.

4. Answered already - almost entire flock affected including roosters (chicks not yet affected).

5. No signs of trauma at all.

6. What I think may have caused this is my lack of attention to coop bedding. I noticed a couple of days ago that there was a strong smell of ammonia. I immediately put down an extra layer of litter (about 1 foot of rice hulls over top).

7. There is NO decrease in either eating or drinking within the flock. They have fermented feed every morning with powdered vitamins. They also have 17% layer feed. Yesterday they had chopped greens with chopped garlic, cayenne pepper, turmeric and parsley in an attempt to give them an immune boost.

8. The poop is watery - normal. It is quite cool here in Thailand in the mornings, but blazing hot during the day time. I think the heat during the day may be accounting for the watery poop at the moment. Not sure.

9..So far I have been administering Doxy-Sol (doxycycline hydrochloride 10.82 gram), not sure of the dosage I should be giving, but have given 1 teaspoon / 1 gallon water in the chickens waterer for all to share. Is someone able to confirm for me please if this is the correct dosage?

10. I need to be able to treat this myself.

11. Housing/bedding: I have 3 coops joined together with dividing walls, all sharing one run. Currently (unfortunately) the chickens must stay within the enclosed run and cannot free range. We are endeavoring to change this situation but it may be a few more months down the line yet. All coop/run litter is rice hulls. They have a sand bath, and a separate dirt bath with lots of charcoal/wood ash mixed in.

Really, my questions are: what dosage of doxycycline? and how do I manage the hen with chicks? This particular hen has only just started symptoms this morning. So far no sign of her chicks having any problems......they are about 2 weeks old.

Thanks so much for starting this thread.....a great service to everyone

it might be a virus. antibiotic will help with secondary infections only. 20mg/kg would be a dosage but you have to make sure they all take it. I use humans vibramycin, 100 mg pills, 1/4 for up to 2,5 kg birds and 1/2 for up to 5 kg birds. ask the chemist if they sell vibramycin or doxycycline with some other name. good luck.

 

[Roxannemc]

My rooster and frizzle hen are fnbe too today... eating crowing whooping it up. Go figure

 

[Roxannemc]

not necessarily. Dirty runs, warm excessive wet weather (really any excessive wet weather). Chickens always carry a load of cocci but it can get out of balance for many reasons

TODAY hes crowing eating acting normal maybe they were just cold.It was nasty out..Im still giving them the Duramyicin 10 in water i started yesterday.The poop in there looks black and white sort of wet from them but i did feed lentil fodder too the last 2 days .Ill do Corid if the other doesnt keep him lookibg well.Thanks for info

 

[minihorse927]

Thanks so much for your quick response! Here's the photos (although it's mostly all written in Thai). Hope this helps.

can you translate the area where it says 10.82 grams? The line above?

 

[NanaNeen]

EGG BOUND!! HELP

 

[minihorse927]

EGG BOUND!! HELP

we need some more information. Has she prolapse? can you see the egg coming out or feel the egg? Is the egg intact or broken?

the first thing to do in most egg bound cases is going to be to soak her rear end in a tub of warm water and epsom salts

 

[NanaNeen]

we need some more information. Has she prolapse? can you see the egg coming out or feel the egg? Is the egg intact or broken?

the first thing to do in most egg bound cases is going to be to soak her rear end in a tub of warm water and epsom salts

I haven't been able to pick her up yet. She looks like a penguin. And her abdomen is very swollen between her legs.

 

[minihorse927]

I haven't been able to pick her up yet. She looks like a penguin. And her abdomen is very swollen between her legs.

there could be a host of other issues besides being egg bound. There could also be an infection

 

[thailand]

can you translate the area where it says 10.82 grams? The line above?

Ok. Basically it just says that the ingredients are 100grams. Assumedly that means that the strength is 10.82 grams of 100grams?? The packet itself is a 20 gram packet of this stuff. (Maths is SO NOT my thing!). Appreciate all the help you guys can give me. Many thanks.

 

[casportpony]

can you translate the area where it says 10.82 grams? The line above?

Ok.  Basically it just says that the ingredients are 100grams.  Assumedly that means that the strength is 10.82 grams of 100grams??  The packet itself is a 20 gram packet of this stuff.  (Maths is SO NOT my thing!).  Appreciate all the help you guys can give me.  Many thanks.

I think what that means is that there are 10.82 grams (10,829 mg) of doxycycline in that package, which means each gram = 108.2 mg doxycycline. Does that help at all?