Urgent!! Something is wrong with my hens!!

[Phoenix Farms]

I have recently bought three Silver Phoenix hens. I noticed they have nasal discharge but act like normal chickens. They are sneezing and coughing often but one of the my hens is in worse shape. She eats but her craw rarely seems full and her feathers are all ruffled looking. A rooster cane with them and he has a bit of a cough and gargly sounded breathing. My one hen who has the ruffled feathers has wheezing and gargled breathing. She has hard lumps on her and is super skinny. What is wrong with them!?

 

[Phoenix Farms]

Also, my hens are in the same chicken yard as all the other chickens. The rooster is away in a diff. pen because he fights with my other Phoenix roo. Should we quarantine them until they get better or is it just a cold?

 

[NovaAman]

I would say you need to start them on antibiotics very quickly. Tylan, baytril, something. Poultry drench too. Good luck.

 

[Phoenix Farms]

Where could we buy the antibiotics and poultry drench at?

 

[NovaAman]

Oh gracious! Duramyacyn, not sure of the exact spelling... In the water. Youre going yo learn a very hard lesson. Never bring in birds and put them with your existing flock for at least 2-3 weeks. A month would be ideal. Chickens can look healthy, then you move them, and they get stressed, then bam, they are sick. Since all three are ill, I would say this is probably contagious and you should treat everyone. Take the 3 sick ones out and treat them with Tylan.

 

[NovaAman]

Most farm supply store will have it. Tylan 50 will say its for cattle and swine, injectable. But you can dose orally. 1/4 cc for bantams, 1/2 cc for standard for 3-5 days. Poultry drench is a quick acting nutrient to help perk them up.

 

[Phoenix Farms]

Okay. Right now my hens are roosting with my others. Should I take the hens away tonight or wait till morning? We have some antibiotics that may work for then that you have to put in the water. The person we got them from may have kept them in a cage for a longtime by the looks of the rooster. Could they just have a little cold?

 

[Phoenix Farms]

We are going to move the three sick hens into the pen with the sick roo. I will give them electrolyte water and plenty of food and grit. Could it just be stress and the dust?

 

[NovaAman]

Stress will cause the symptomatic illness to show up...

 

[maidenwolfx80]

Sounds like a respiratory thing. With the weather going from triple digits to 80's during the day and lower 60's at night so suddenly the stress has popped up a respiratory prob in a group of 4 that I got from a different farm than I had gotten all my others.. They have been together for 4 months now and the illness just popped up, these things happen, so now I am treating with duramycin-10 and probiotics for the whole flock. Sometimes I mix it in the water and sometimes I make a smaller amount and mix itin their food and make a wet mash and they love it. I hope your birds get better I just love pheonix's. I have one golden hen, would so love to breed her..