Upper respiratory issues.Need Advice Quickly.

[BastyPutt]

Your chickens likely have a chronic respiratory disease (CRD) caused by Mycoplasma galisepticum. (MG) Chickens pick this up and it takes up residence in their cells and then when they experience stress, it flares up. Often, it resolves on its own and natural remedies are fine to use.

However, if it lingers and even becomes worse, and it sounds like it has, then an antibiotic may be needed or some of these birds could die. Often what happens is bacteria moves in to infect the mucous and inflamed tissues. This is what the antibiotic is for.

@nuthatched has given good advice. Tylan or Tylosin are the best antibiotics for this issue. You can get Tylosin here without a prescription for now. Next month that will change as the federal government has made it mandatory these antibiotics are to require a prescription to buy. So get it now while you can. https://homelabvet.com/product/tyclosin-500-30g/

Also this. The abstract is great, and also from a government source.

 

[Bella101]

Hello
I am a new chicken owner and I am learning about my beautiful girls I have. We have made serious mistakes that will never ever happen again.
My girls can't handle a lot of change. We moved there coop three times in the last couple of months and now have decided until things get better for our birds that it stays put. The stress of adjusting to outside living has been hard with all the rain and cooler temps in SC.
My birds are all very young. I have raised them from babies. 12 weeks to 15 weeks 9 in total. The first thing I noticed was my Bard Rock scratching a complete C around her ears. This sight gave me some info to help guide me to look for mights. They were all clean. I flushed both the birds I saw scratching with peroxide and one side it really smelled bad on both birds. I used yeast meds in there ear and triple antibiotic ointment to help where they were scratching.
They are still slinging there heads and now my Bard Rock is wheezing. My big girls that are 15 weeks old are croopy and one sounds like she is honking.
The only thing I know to do is use Vet Rx along with some pro- biotics. Maybe some supplements wouldn't hurt. I am making oregano oil and using that too. Is there anything else I can do to help my birds naturally?

I'm going through similar symptoms with my chickens, I tried to vetrx and other herbs. It didn't do much so I did some more research and found that chicken owners will treat respiratory diseases with danagard. It's a medicine for pigs with respiratory illness. You can get it on Amazon. All birds except for 1 got better. I now have the 1 in a tent inside and I'm still trying to figure out how to nurse her back to health. But the danegard worked great for the other chickens. Here is the link to the YouTube video explaining danagard

Hope your girls get better soon!

 

[azygous]

Thanks @Bella101 for the good advice. Denaguard is a good antibiotic for respiratory illness and easy to treat multiple chickens.

 

[Bella101]

Thanks @Bella101 for the good advice. Denaguard is a good antibiotic for respiratory illness and easy to treat multiple chickens.

It worked great. But I still have one chicken that's still not doing good, and one chicken that still has a raspy voice. I'm going to try using tylan/tysniol. I saw the link that was put up in this thread to buy it without a prescription. But there are multiple options, could you let me know which one I should get. Powder or injectable, and what the dosage should be. Thank you for your advice, and Betty and princess laya thank you too!

 

[azygous]

We use non-injectibles when possible since chicken tissue is prone to injury from injections. Tylam 50 appear no longer to be obtainable. But if you get that one, it is highly effective, butwe administer it orally via syringe. The next best one is Tylosin soluble powder, which is mixed into the drinking water and can treat miltiple chickens or just a single if you segregate the patient.

 

[Bella101]

I just bought both to be on the safe side, I found tylan 50, I will attach a picture of it. And also the powder. The tylan 50 I found on site called

We use non-injectibles when possible since chicken tissue is prone to injury from injections. Tylam 50 appear no longer to be obtainable. But if you get that one, it is highly effective, butwe administer it orally via syringe. The next best one is Tylosin soluble powder, which is mixed into the drinking water and can treat miltiple chickens or just a single if you segregate the patient.

I bought tylan 50 from this website if you need it https://www.revivalanimal.com/product/tylan-50-200-liquid
I Also bought the powder from the web link I found in one of your other replies. I saw a youtube video that said you could kill you chickens pretty easily by administering medicine orally. That if it goes down the wrong way, it would kill them..is this true? If I do the powder, what should the dosage be? Thank you again for sharing your knowledge

 

[azygous]

This is how to give fluids by syringe or tubing safely. Inserting the syringe into the right side of the chicken's beak and putting into into the esophagus assures none will be aspirated.