treat or not? what is it?

[fishnet1971]

MayMay,my favorite hen started to 'sneeze' or 'cough' last week. little bit of a runny nose. Eating fine, pooping fine no fever.

Started talking a lot to me. Two days ago she started sounding like she has larangitis! scratchy voice. Now she is almost wheezing to breath. I started he on VetRx anyway. No good really. I found some brown dirt yeuchy up her nose and cleaned it out. not really any different. Is she getting a cold maybe? She seems to be ' coughing' sometimes a little.

eating great,drinking, etc just fine.

It's funny, almost sounds like allergies! Do they get allergies like 'hay fever'.

Should I just take it day by day or go ahead and start her on something??????


She was pretty sick a few weeks ago. She had gotten into something or other and had really bad diahrea, would not eat, etc. finally got over that. I really thought i was going to loose her.

 

[robertgower53]

I have a hen that has allergies. She just started laying in February, then started sneezing/cough. No other symptoms. Then she stopped laying for about 2 weeks. Yesterday she laid an egg. She still sneezes. Poultry society said it was allergies.

 

[Suzierd]

How does the Poultry society know it's allergies and not a respiratory problem did they say?
I would really like to know how to tell the difference.

 

[robertgower53]

No other symptoms, no fever, no lack of energy, no wheezing. Nothing changed except the laying pause.

 

[robertgower53]

I live in the highest allergy region in the US

 

[fishnet1971]

Week later and she's still soundinglike she has larangitis. It seems like it's a little hard for her to breath still. Sneezing has slowed down, but she does have a little bit of nasal running. I am wondering if it's not time to treat for something respiratory. Time to do the ol' backyard chicken website search for what to use. Any suggestions ladies and dudes?

 

[Suzierd]

The Tylan works very well. I went with the soluble that you just add to the water. Its a bit spendy but much more effective then Duramycin-10.
The Tylan Soluble is 1 teaspoon per Gallon.

 

[fishnet1971]

we have the Tylan injectable at our feed store. Dont know about the watersoluable stuff. I am so scared to do an injection, but i think i better learn and learn quickly.

 

[Suzierd]

You can give the Tylan 50 injectable Orally, 1/2cc for five days or 1/4cc if it's a small bird.
Good luck with her.

 

[fishnet1971]

just got back from TSC and got Tylan 200. found on here to give orally .23 cc once a day for 7 days. I hope that's correct. I know it's not the Tylan50.