UPDATED: Foul smell coming from 9 week old, no discharge from nose. Still need help please!

[casportpony]

Fishnet is right, using less dust on a young one is probably a good idead... FWIW, I have used it on many that were about a week old and haven't lost any.

 

[fishnet1971]

hmmm,,, I bet I just over did them, or they were just not ment to survive ya know what I mean?

 

[casportpony]

hmmm,,, I bet I just over did them, or they were just not ment to survive ya know what I mean?

Yes, I know what you mean. It seems that birds that are sick are more likely to have lice, maybe because they aren't dust bathing enough?

 

[Three4me]

I am so confused. Would a chicken that has sour crop still be eating, drinking, and pooping normally? Could it still be sour crop with the crop appearing to be empty? My girl STILL has that awful sour fermenting grass smell coming out of her mouth. I can barely smell it when her mouth is closed but when her mouth is open it is obvious it is coming from there. When I went to check on her this morning I could smell it when I opened the door to the brooder. I thoroughly checked her over last night and did not find any sores or injuries on her body anywhere. She does not appear to have any respiratory problems. No sneezing, coughing, rattly sounding lungs, etc. I observed her eating, drinking and pooping normally this morning.

Her voice is not as loud as usual though. She is a Rosecomb and the loudest of all of my birds. She does seem a little more fluffed up than usual but not terribly but I increased the heat in the brooder by 5 degrees just in case she is cold.

What would you do in this situation? I started them all on Duramycin in their water last Thursday because we had lost a 5 week old suddenly with what I thought was some type of respiratory disease (see my OP for more details on the one that died) but none of the others have gotten sick. Could the antibiotics have caused a yeast problem this quickly? I do normally give probiotics & vitamins in their water but read that I should discontinue them while they are on the antibiotics so I did. I have read that you can give baking soda in the water to help with sour crop. Should I do this? I have the Monostat but have not given it because I am not sure it is warranted right now with her lack of sour crop symptoms other than the sour breath.

Anyone?

 

[fishnet1971]

Casport and I were just bs'ing about vent gleet. Is there any white around her vent at all? That will stink something aweful all the time.

 

[Three4me]

Casport and I were just bs'ing about vent gleet. Is there any white around her vent at all? That will stink something aweful all the time.

I just checked, nope her vent is clean. The smell is definitely coming from her mouth and definitely smells like a grass compost pile that has been sitting in the sun. And for what it's worth, we don't have a grass pile or compost pile at all that she could have gotten into. We bag our grass every time we mow and put in the yard waste bin for pick up every week. I do know that smell though cause we forgot to put the bin out one week and had to wait until the following week when they came around again. It smelled awful and was just the same smell. It is driving me crazy with paranoia and worry. Every time I go check on her I expect to find her crop all swollen. I feel that I can't just ignore this because I know it isn't normal but I don't know what I can do if the only problem with her so far is that awful sour smell coming out of her mouth when she breathes.

 

[casportpony]

FYI, a yeast infection does not always mean swollen crop/sour crop, the yeast can be between the tip of her beak her crop, her intestines and vent.

 

[casportpony]

Read this:
http://www.peafowl.org/ARTICLES/9/

 

[casportpony]

Three4me, are you in the US or Canada? If you're in Canada, I think you can buy the oral anti-fungal, diflucan, over the counter.

 

[Three4me]

Thank you for the link! I mentioned yesterday that the tip of her tongue was white but it doesn't look fuzzy or anything. Just looks like the color drained out of 1/8th inch of her tongue. I feel like an idiot...I just looked in all of my chicken's mouths and they all have tongues that look like that with the white on the end. Nobody else stinks though. Is a white tongue like in the pic normal for chickens? I have no idea. The picture is actually one of my other chickens as she is the only one that I would even attempt to hold her mouth open to take a picture. She is very mellow...
This is not the sour breath chicken in question but her tongue looks exactly like this. So am I looking at a normal chicken tongue and I just don't know any better?

I think I will go ahead and treat with the Monostat and assume this is a yeast infection somewhere between her throat and vent.

p.s. no chickens were harmed in the taking of this photo

I had my cell phone ready and it was quick and painless.