Why is my chicken sneezing again???

[Differentiation]

My buff bantam started sneezing over a week ago and I didn't think anything of it till three days after the sneezing her eyes and face were swollen and discharge was coming to of her eyes. I took her to the vet and she was diagnosed with coryza. She was given the antibiotics and also the others as they showed symptoms too. I was told to keep her indoors for a week to recover. Come to today where it has been a week and I let her out to join the others and noticed that she is sneezing again. Im so worried, is she ill again???

 

[chickens really]

Might of needed 10 days of meds....

 

[coach723]

I would certainly call your vet and ask if a longer duration or different antibiotic is called for. Also possible that the coryza infection weakened her enough that she has another issue too, secondary infections are not uncommon. You can search and find lots of info on infectious coryza, I will attach a couple of links to shorter ones at the end of this. It's a bacterial infection and the symptoms are treatable with antibiotics, however your birds will become lifetime carriers, which means any new birds you bring in will be exposed and likely infected also. Here are the links, and you can search and find much more: http://articles.extension.org/pages/68127/infectious-coryza-in-poultry
http://www.poultryhub.org/health/disease/types-of-disease/infectious-coryza/

 

[Differentiation]

I would certainly call your vet and ask if a longer duration or different antibiotic is called for. Also possible that the coryza infection weakened her enough that she has another issue too, secondary infections are not uncommon. You can search and find lots of info on infectious coryza, I will attach a couple of links to shorter ones at the end of this. It's a bacterial infection and the symptoms are treatable with antibiotics, however your birds will become lifetime carriers, which means any new birds you bring in will be exposed and likely infected also. Here are the links, and you can search and find much more: http://articles.extension.org/pages/68127/infectious-coryza-in-poultry
http://www.poultryhub.org/health/disease/types-of-disease/infectious-coryza/

The link is very helpful. Thank you!

 

[coach723]

Your welcome, sorry you are dealing with it.

 

[getaclue]

Coryza is not entirely cured. The antibiotics treat the bacteria, and stop the current symptoms. Once treated, they can't ever catch it again, however, treated birds become carriers for life. Any new birds exposed to them will become infected. Symptoms may reoccur when under stress. You have the choice of raising a closed flock, meaning you put them in enclosed coops, and runs, and never add any new stock, OR they may be euthanized, and anywhere they've been, decontaminated, then start over with new stock.

 

[getaclue]

Please be careful going to the feed store, or around other people's flocks, making sure your clothes, shoes, etc., have not been in contact with your birds.