whats wrong with my hens!!
- Thread starter jonfphall
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chrismahon
Well-known member
Never seen anything like that Jonfphall. Suggest a vet immediately.
foxy
Active member
Hello and welcome to the forum jonfphall. From the photo and description of the symptoms, it does look like an upper respiratory tract infection which has infected the sinus under the eye of the pekin boy. The most common respiratory infection which fits would be mycoplasma gallisepticum. This bug infects the soft tissue around the nostrils, throat and eyes causing irritation, inflammation, snicking, head shaking amongst other symptoms.
This is a highly infectious disease that can lay dormant for some time, then, in times of stress becomes symptomatic. Treatment is by antibiotics which treat the symptoms and go some way to preventing opportunistic bacteria and the disease being too entrenched, developing more of a chronic respiratory disorder.
Of course this would need a consult by a poultry friendly vet, who would then suggest the best course of action
Here is a link to give more information about respiratory diseases and poultry you may find useful.
http://poultrykeeper.com/respiratory-problems/
This is a highly infectious disease that can lay dormant for some time, then, in times of stress becomes symptomatic. Treatment is by antibiotics which treat the symptoms and go some way to preventing opportunistic bacteria and the disease being too entrenched, developing more of a chronic respiratory disorder.
Of course this would need a consult by a poultry friendly vet, who would then suggest the best course of action
Here is a link to give more information about respiratory diseases and poultry you may find useful.
http://poultrykeeper.com/respiratory-problems/
jonfphall
New member
thanks very much for all the excellent help, i will get the vet and let everyone no what the out come is.
