It seems that all of the people I know that have chickens in southern cal now have chickens that are chronically coughing all the time....... I have had chickens when i was younger and never once did one get sick...... i have one chicken i bought when it was older and it has coughed for the past two months constantly.......still lays eggs....just shakes its head all the time and off and on has white stuff coming out of its nose.......I am opposed to giving it antibiotics because in my opinion this is probably why all these dang chicnkens are so weak now that they get sick all of the time..... anyone else experience ing this? Seems that if they get a cold they should get over it just like humans..... and if they were deathly ill they would stop laying no?
Chickens don't get "colds" like people do. Any chicken with signs / symptoms of CRD (chronic respiratory disease) should really be culled. Even once they appear "healthy" again, they are carriers for life and will continue spreading the disease to any other birds they come into contact with. Likewise, as long as you have a CRD bird on your property, any other properties you visit you could be spreading the disease to other people's birds.
