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Thanks, good point with the tuna - haven't tried that yet, but she normally likes it. Will give some a go tomorrow. She was diagnosed with EYP mid Sept - vet drained 150mL fluid from her abdomen and she was on antibiotics and anti inflammatories after - but just draining the fluid made a huge...

I was getting more and more worried reading your thread - so glad she's doing better! We've just put one of our 2y.o. Bluebelles on the suprelorin implant (due to egg yolk peritonitis), two weeks in now and she's taking it hard. She passed two eggs in the days after the implant, not lash eggs...

Hi all, anyone had more luck dealing with recurrent coccidiosis? @Mamawills - how have things been this year? I've been struggling since end July - we've done treatment number 4 of Baycox, and just started round 2 of Amprolium as well. Any other tips? Anyone tried oregano oil?

Hopefully a final update - Sybil is out with the other two, and seems to be scratching about & dustbathing pretty happily. We finally got the lab results back - high numbers of coccidia (as expected) - no capillaria eggs found. May be that I'm wrong and it was just some gross poop, but I feel...

Keep it up for the 7 days (assuming that's what it says on the bottle), and keep a close eye on her for a few weeks after. My two that had it relapsed two weeks later and one of them died Wednesday :( too weak to cope with a second round. The other is doing better though!

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Hi folks - sad news I'm afraid, Minnie didn't make it. She was so weak, she just started panting a few minutes after tube feeding this morning, couldn't keep it up, gasped a few times and that was it. Sybil has been doing much better, she's gained a little weight, and is eating normal chick...

Oh dear :( think there might be Capillaria in Sybil's poop. We already started the Flubenvet yesterday, on the vet's advice, will check when we can expect the lab results to confirm. Might explain why the coccidiosis has hit so hard.

Vet update - 'it wouldn't be wrong' to euthanise Minnie, she is so weak her odds aren't great, but there's a chance she'll improve with good supportive care (so we're going to try). Sybil looks much better, and just needs a bit of help. So we've come home with lamb feeding tubes for both of them...

Thanks eggcessive, will do!

The roller-coaster continues - Sybil went back to the paint-like poop, and dozed most of the day. Suddenly perked up and had a good feed late in the day. She has also started pecking at her poop, then realising it is gross, and flicking her head - so the bathroom (where our cage is) now has...

Hi all - status update. We have a camera in the coop, and it was a warm night last night - so I thought Minnie might be more comfortable in the coop with the others. She hopped up onto her perch no problem, but about 5am my partner spotted she was down on the poop tray. I expected to find her to...

I've not tried tube-feeding before - can't find a soft tube the right sort of size at home, but have ordered some off Amazon - should arrive tomorrow. In the meantime we've just given her some blended up egg and water carefully using a syringe...which she decided to peck up the drips from by...

Yeah, very good point - she did seem to be drinking plenty whilst on the Tylan...side effect of the diarrhoea I guess! Thanks for your help :)

Thanks Eggcessive. They've already had one round of Tylan, and I'm not sure it is a good idea to double-down with a second round of the same antibiotics - but maybe the sulfa antibiotics are an option. I'll have to hope the baycox holds the cocci at bay until Monday!