Hi all,
Been posting the last two weeks about my sick chicks. There did seem to be some confusion about what was wrong with them and I was grasping at straws. No chicken vets around me.
After 2 weeks of dealing and loosing chicks I can clearly see two separate things going on.
My Australorps do seem to have a respiratory thing. Bubbles in their eyes, coughing (finally heard it) crusty nostrils, sometimes with discharge. They were on duramycin for 7 days because I couldn't get LS-50. They didn't improve, just got worse. Yesterday I got the LS-50 and they have been on it for 24 hrs or so. Not much better yet.
My light brahmas don't have the respiratory symptoms. They just stop walking and then can't eat or drink.
All are housed together in the same coop with 1 silkie.
So far two have died out of the 12 I started with: 1 silkie and 1 Lt Brahma.
Out of desperation I took 1 brahma and 1 australorp to the State Lab this morning. Neither were doing well at all and were close to death. Now I've lost 1 silkie, 2 brahmas, and 1 australorp.
Just talked with the vet who is confused. He did not find anything wrong with the Australorp I took in. She wasn't coughing but did have very strange looking, very small pupils (almost shrunken looking) and she did weird things with her head and neck.
He found nothing much with the brahma, just a few worms, nothing he would call a serious infestation.
He sent cultures and is checking for AI and MG. I won't know until next week the results of those tests.
My questions:
1. The remaining chicks are 7 wks old now. They were fine it seemed until they reached 5 wks. When do you worm chicks, if at all and what do ya'll use to do that?
2. Got any ideas what might be going on with the Brahmas? I have had 2 that got like this and both have died. Still have one more that is not doing well. Eyes are closed.
My Australorps do seem to have some sort of respiratory thing going on.
I'm waiting to hear back about the cultures.
Any thoughts from anyone?
Posey
Been posting the last two weeks about my sick chicks. There did seem to be some confusion about what was wrong with them and I was grasping at straws. No chicken vets around me.
After 2 weeks of dealing and loosing chicks I can clearly see two separate things going on.
My Australorps do seem to have a respiratory thing. Bubbles in their eyes, coughing (finally heard it) crusty nostrils, sometimes with discharge. They were on duramycin for 7 days because I couldn't get LS-50. They didn't improve, just got worse. Yesterday I got the LS-50 and they have been on it for 24 hrs or so. Not much better yet.
My light brahmas don't have the respiratory symptoms. They just stop walking and then can't eat or drink.
All are housed together in the same coop with 1 silkie.
So far two have died out of the 12 I started with: 1 silkie and 1 Lt Brahma.
Out of desperation I took 1 brahma and 1 australorp to the State Lab this morning. Neither were doing well at all and were close to death. Now I've lost 1 silkie, 2 brahmas, and 1 australorp.
Just talked with the vet who is confused. He did not find anything wrong with the Australorp I took in. She wasn't coughing but did have very strange looking, very small pupils (almost shrunken looking) and she did weird things with her head and neck.
He found nothing much with the brahma, just a few worms, nothing he would call a serious infestation.
He sent cultures and is checking for AI and MG. I won't know until next week the results of those tests.
My questions:
1. The remaining chicks are 7 wks old now. They were fine it seemed until they reached 5 wks. When do you worm chicks, if at all and what do ya'll use to do that?
2. Got any ideas what might be going on with the Brahmas? I have had 2 that got like this and both have died. Still have one more that is not doing well. Eyes are closed.
My Australorps do seem to have some sort of respiratory thing going on.
I'm waiting to hear back about the cultures.
Any thoughts from anyone?
Posey
