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Canker

By sharon71, in Chicken Clinic

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My chickens have been diagnosed with Canker.

They have been prescribed Flagyl and I understand that this will take at least 7 days to show improvements but in the meantime I'm having great difficulty getting any food into them and each day they are getting progressively worse - swollen & watery eyes, loss of appetite, legions in their mouths, diahorrea, soft shelled eggs etc. etc. One is already dead....

If anyone has any advice or appetising recipes please let me know.

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Valkyrie Cocka-doodle-loopy

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Crumbs I haven't heard of that either - I thought plants got it. I hope your birdies improve soon. Something else to add to the watch out for list - it's a pity that your birds had to suffer, but I am grateful that you posted so that it makes us aware of they symptoms should it happen to our girls.

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I wonder if that's what Apache has - being treated by the vet at the moment, but it might be worth mentioning when I see her on Monday. We are plagued with pigeons here - wood pigeons that is.

Edited to add: so far she has the puffy eye and the other one is just coming out in sympathy - have eye drops for that, but not the other symptoms just yet.

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I wonder if that's what Apache has - being treated by the vet at the moment, but it might be worth mentioning when I see her on Monday. We are plagued with pigeons here - wood pigeons that is.

Edited to add: so far she has the puffy eye and the other one is just coming out in sympathy - have eye drops for that, but not the other symptoms just yet.

 

Koojie if you look in her mouth it causes a sort of cheesy substance in their mouth and throat. Pigeons are particularly prone.

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I shall try and peek while getting her in a headlock when I do her eye again in the morning. These chickens are so wriggly! I am not aware of anything oozy around the mouth, but she does tend to shake her head now and again - I did ask the vet whether her ears were affected.

 

Cheers Budgies.

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Stuck my finger in her beak - nothing out of the ordinary that I could see. She did have something that looked like large lumps of pollen on her nose - looked rather like the medicine I have been putting in the drink. Not shaking her head so much today and not much whingeing either. Perhaps she's on the mend.

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Apache has been given a clean bill of health from the vet. I didn't think she got any worse, but didn't think she had improved much. Nope, said the vet, the swelling has gone down a lot - just finish the eye drop course and no more medicine with the water. So mycowhatsit it must have been, and with luck the birds will have built up immunity to cope with it in future.

I hope all your birds are doing well with their medicine too, Sharon. These pigeons have a lot to answer for.

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