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Sorry. I forgot to come back and say that a local chicken rescuer uses human antiviral meds. I do not know how well they work, but it's worth checking into.

Assuming your bird's sinuses are still swollen, have you tried Terramycin opthalmic ointment? I found out after I gave a hen away (to someone that said his dad knew how to treat a long term sinus bump) that you have to massage around the eye for several minutes after you put in the drop or gel...

Dr. Gary Butcher, the University of Florida Poultry Specialist, travels all over the world helping commercial operators solve problems. He told me that Marek's IS everywhere. However, he added that it takes a lot of exposure to very young chicks to cause the disease. My diagnosis was last...

Thank you @EggSighted4Life! I am also anti-DE but did not take time to say I used permethrin spray, Ivermectin, Moxydectin, ear-mite lotion, and baths followed by blow drying, although the unscented cat litter I used in the cage bottom might have contained DE. If so, it would be bound to the...

Not sure where I posted 2 other research studies on recent research regarding Marek's treatments. They were all about Chinese substances: Glycyrrhiza uralensis (not glabra which might caught hemorrhages) to shrink tumors, also Dan Shen to stop new tumors from forming, both from one study that...

Bumping thread because I'm a retired Clinical Lab Scientist who learned the hard way about Marek's, but I might be ahead of the curve on recent treatment research. I started studying chicken parasites and diseases when we moved to a farm in 2014. Bad experiences with our first chickens taught me...

Reviving an old thread because there is no wisdom in withholding citrus from chickens. In fact, it's good for them, even the peels...

I agree. Someone once texted in reply to a lost chicken ad I posted on CL that they enjoyed eating my chicken, an expensive silver lace English Orpington. That said, I have Khaki Campbell ducks and can ship across state lines because I have NPIP certification. I have never shipped anything, not...

Wow! I forgot all about this post until I found it viewing my profile. Sad to say, I lost 3 more chickens in the last week even though we covered the entire main complex years ago and hubby added overhead wires in the orchard where my standard breeds still free range. This summer, I started...

First, thanks for the good info and links. Years ago, I found info online from Mississippi State regarding dosages of a lot of things, but I lost it, so I came here trying to get the right amount again. I recalled the dosage in water being very low but not exactly how low. I guessed and used 1/4...

I'm reviving an old thread because I couldn't find a better one on levamisole. There are more on fenbendazole/Safeguard/Panacur, but I don't want to use it during molt because I don't want deformed feathers. Ditto Valbazen. I used Ivermectin the last 3 times, so I wanted another dewormer to...

I read study after study trying to find the correct dosage of Oregano oil to treat coccidiosis. Amprolium is almost useless on strains in the Florida panhandle. I know because I placed an ad on CL with a warning about coccidiosis and since then I've gotten calls from people who lost well over...

We are taking about Coccidia here, not Cocci. Cocci is a term used for round shape bacteria. Eimeria parasites are called Coccidia, and they appear much larger under a microscope than cocci do. I'm a retired Clinical Lab Scientist, so I already knew how to ID many human parasites when I got...

This is scary! I was using 1/4 teaspoon for chickens and 1/8 tsp for turkeys and fecal exams showed it was working slowly but not enough to eliminate Coccidia spores, just the Oocysts. So I checked the link above, which no longer gives any dosage because Durvet does not make the powder anymore...

Credit to a US government employee. Image uploaded to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eimeria_life_cycle_usda.jpg

A sick juvenile brought to me by someone who moved. This pullet had more stages of Coccidia than I've seen before, indicating reinfections. She had black feces and roundworms as well. Compare to Coccidia lifecycle chart on Wikipedia. She improved with Ivermectin and Amprolium treatment.

Coccidia Oocysts and mite on low power

Has anybody analyzed the composition of the spray? Maybe it's just ascorbic acid, vitamin C. There were plenty of studies confirming this resulted in a significant increase in hatchability before. But new research indicates egg dipping vs spraying gives best results, and it has to be a certain...

Thank you! Bookmarked for future reference. I had already bookmarked another chart at poultrypedia.com. I used it because I had bought some chickens whose parasites seemed resistant to Ivermectin. A Cream Legbar with gapeworm symptoms yawned and yawned, then in spite of Ivermectin, she...