Chicks sneezing often - respiratory infection?

[The Welch Chickens]

@azygous sorry to bother you but I saw you were online

 

[The Welch Chickens]

It sounds like a respiratory infection. If you can, call around and find Tylosin powder. It's one of the very few antibiotics left for us to purchase without a prescription. You mix it into the water the chicks drink. Or order it here. https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=7EF2885F-8F22-495D-A6C5-12069F4B5712

Ok. I will look around.

Do you think removing the pine shavings is a good idea?

 

[The Welch Chickens]

If you can, call around and find Tylosin powder.

What is the difference between Tylosin and Tylosin Tartrate?

 

[The Welch Chickens]

I'm not sure what the role of tartrate is in a drug, but it's a chemical salt that I would advise to avoid when treating chickens.

Ok.

 

[The Welch Chickens]

I'm not sure what the role of tartrate is in a drug, but it's a chemical salt that I would advise to avoid when treating chickens.

The medicine you advised getting says Tylosin Tartrate, though, as with a few other Tylosins:
https://jedds.com/products/tylosin-powder
https://birdpalproducts.com/products/tylosin-powder-for-birds?_pos=1&_sid=0d2013084&_ss=r

 

[The Welch Chickens]

I changed the pine shavings to paper towels and rubbed VetRX on the sneezing chicks, under the wings and on their chests and heads.

Four chicks out of ten have the symptoms.

 

[The Welch Chickens]

Go with the Tylosin without tartrate. Tartrate may be entirely safe, but chickens are so sensitive, it's safer to avoid it. If anyone knows about tartrate and can correct me, I would welcome it.

@Eggcessive, I see you advise using Tylosin Tartrate on other threads. Do you know anything about the tartrate? Thanks

 

[The Welch Chickens]

My mother posted about our chicks on a local Facebook group, and someone suggested using this: https://www.springwateravian.farm/product/dac-1-1-cure/

Here's what they said about it:

Bromhexine helps with congestion. Springwater Avian Health sells a powder alone, or with an antibiotic. I’d get the one with doxycycline to treat whatever they have going on.

What do you guys think?