New chickens, respiratory symptoms/med advice

[Littletrees]

I got two new chickens yesterday from a friend, already in quarantine thankfully but after she left I noticed them both sneezing and snotty. No other noticeable symptoms, no swelling, eating and drinking well and acting just fine. The sneezing and snot is getting worse though. I have on hand
Oxytetracycline INJ 72-200 (I’d rather not inject, muscle necrosis isn’t a side effect I want to deal with)
Clindamycin 150 mg capsules
Cephalexin 500 mg
Amoxicillin and Azithromycin.
Im unsure of which would be better considering the unknown illness. I’d like to at least get ahead of this while they are quarantined. Anything is helpful at this point.
Pic of Karen and Sharon (my 6y/o named them)

 

[Eggcessive]

It might save a lot of work and expense to just give them back. Is the nasal drainage thick or watery? Sneezing can be okay is occasional, and during eating feed, or from dust. You don’t want to bring in birds if they have a respiratory infection. I don’t get birds from others because the possibility of bringing in of chronic respiratory diseases, only from a hatchery or feed store. Stress from a move can sometimes bring about symptoms, but use your own judgement as to if these symptoms are something to take seriously. Respiratory diseases can include MG, coryza, ILT, and infectious bronchitis. Each symptom can give a clue to what you are dealing with. Eye bubbles or foam, nasal drainage, wheezing, rattles, or gasping are common sy,ptoms.

 

[Littletrees]

It might save a lot of work and expense to just give them back. Is the nasal drainage thick or watery? Sneezing can be okay is occasional, and during eating feed, or from dust. You don’t want to bring in birds if they have a respiratory infection. I don’t get birds from others because the possibility of bringing in of chronic respiratory diseases, only from a hatchery or feed store. Stress from a move can sometimes bring about symptoms, but use your own judgement as to if these symptoms are something to take seriously. Respiratory diseases can include MG, coryza, ILT, and infectious bronchitis. Each symptom can give a clue to what you are dealing with. Eye bubbles or foam, nasal drainage, wheezing, rattles, or gasping are common sy,ptoms.

The drainage is clear and relatively thin but still thick enough for a snot bubble, while I’m going to try to give them back and have her just keep the money, she was down sizing due to a bad home situation and I’m not sure she will take them back and frankly if anything’s wrong she’s just going to ask me for help/advise. She said she cleaned the coop two days ago and it got dusty but the sneezing was pretty frequent with the buff. Those are the only symptoms. Clear snot and sneezes.

 

[Eggcessive]

The symptoms might go away on their own, and could be from stress of moving. Unfortunately, if it turns out to be a respiratory disease, it can affect your other chickens for life making them carriers and subject to having outbreaks of illness. Infectious bronchitis, mycoplasma gallisepticum, coryza, and ILT are common ones with different symptoms. Just keep the new birds far away from your others for at least 30 days of quarantine, and use good hand washing, change clothes handling the old birds, and change your shoes between coops.