Cocci usually does not bother chicken chicks like they do peachicks. It is more likely a bacterial infection, I would give one drop of Baytril orally and repeat if no progress is made within a day.
In areas that are bare dirt or sand and inside the metal brooder coop on concrete I use a pear burner or weed torch to kill cocci and worm eggs. It can be a slow process but if you heat up the concrete or dirt hot enough you can kill everything even below the surface of the dirt. I also clean...
It wasn't pokeberries that made your peahen sick. Pokeberries are actually good for birds, we have them and our birds eat them all the time. We even cut down the big branches and tie them to the pen walls for the caged birds to eat.
It is so frustrating to go through that, I know. There is just too much internet (mis) information out there that is hard to battle. The links to prove the effectiveness of sulfa drugs should help. I, for one, will not recommend using Amprolium in peafowl ever again.
That is why my vet sent these links to me and suggested that I use SulfaMed-G since the Corid seems to not be working. One of the articles states that amprolium does not work well in game birds and sulfa drugs are the better choice.
That being said, and to my dismay, my math was off by a...
Cocci, the never ending battle. Here are a couple of links my vet sent me that I found very interesting.
http://www.scienceinternational.com/fulltext/?doi=sciintl.2013.261.265
and,
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/poultry/coccidiosis/overview_of_coccidiosis_in_poultry.html
Hope you...
I am on my way out to collect samples from all pens and will run fecal exams this evening. I did notice that adjacent pens had some runny stools so I started all pens on Corid at 2 tsp per gallon. I am suspecting foot traffic has spread it from pen to pen.
Here I go again... I recently bought a pair of Midnight BS and put them in isolation for observation and treatment. I ran fecal exams on them and a pen of young chicks about four months old at the same time. Both pens showed cocci in massive quantities with no worm eggs in the chicks and...
My adults get 0.70 ml per day orally in their mash for five days. It definitely worked as observed by fecal float exam.
For chicks, I use a 16% medicated chick starter and add egg either hard boiled and blended in with a blender or raw and hand mixed into the feed. It also makes a great hand...