It is really good you are checking. How is she behaving? Can you give us good clear photos of her and tell us of any behavior that you find out of the ordinary, social & physical. Have you been able to locate a broad spectrum antibiotic? Is she or are they on it? And has Lizzy laid an egg yet?
Birds are great at hiding sickness. It could be your whole flock has something making the rounds. I'm confident when I'm looking at birds in person, but not so much when reading symptoms...but if it was me I think I'd dose the whole coop at this point. I'm still thinking it sounds like some kind of upper respiratory at this point, and an awful lot of those can be treated away.
That's the bizarre thing...Lizzy acts normal during the day (still no egg but shes a new layer and a bantam Satin) ... but i noticed last night she went and sat on their porch by herself before it was bedtime and her breathing wasnt as bad as it was aunday but i felt like she was headed back that way...and everyone else was eating. So i brought her back in for the night and gave her day 2 of Tylan50...at 25ml per lb...she weighed 2.2 lbs Sunday. She had a crop...not full like most others but nothing as empty as it was tonight. I thought since her poo was back to normal and she was acting find during day it was freak hypothermia or ddehydration. Shes had 3 days of tylan50 now.
I'd dose the whole coop with tetracycline. That's my antibiotic of choice for upper respiratory. It's a broad spectrum used commercially for that. I don't know what's available in fish meds, but I think I'd head to the pet store and see if they carry that. I'm guessing it'd come in expensive by volume capsules, so I'd remove they're normal water bowl and give them a small bowl that you can replenish as needed so your not wasting meds....tetra has to be dumped and replaced every 24 hours. So the closer you come to 24 hours worth of water the better. If you get some and post the potency, I could figure out the correct dose for you.
Think someone said that tetracycline is available as a fish medicine though.
I tried to find that Sunday and unable to...but tractor supply did have the tylan50...I thought that was for upper respiratory too.@Gammas Bearded Babies I might have to make a trip to tractor supply just to see what their medicine shelf carries. It's very frustrating right now to not be able to tell you something I know you can get.
I learned what meds to use a long time ago and things have changed is all. Tylan I believe treats only gram positive bacteria...tetra treats both gram positive and gram negative, but it's harder to get now days...so Tylan is an alternative treatment. So if Tylan isn't working, then that probably means either your birds have a gram negative or a viral infection. I've never checked what to use as an alternative to tetra. I'll go read for a sec and see what I can find for gram negative.
