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In the Brooder
I’ll start off by admitting, I was sloppy about quarantining new birds from my old ones. I brought home three new silkies from a poultry swap a few weeks ago (one adult hen, one pullet, and a young roo that I THOUGHT was a pullet 
it’s so hard to tell with silkies.) I threw them in together with my two otherwise healthy 6 year old bantam hens.
Anyway, since then:
One of my two older hens got sick a few days after introducing the new birds. Acting listless, sitting puffed up, wings down, slight dark tint to her comb, and mushy, bright green poops. I thought I might’ve been dealing with cocci so I did a course of Corid, and my hen got better, though now I’m not actually sure if it was even the Corid that made her better necessarily. Towards the end of the corid run, I found a chicken poop with a big ROUNDWORM in it, I’m not sure which bird it came from though. So, I halted the Corid and dosed them with Wazine.
Since then, my OTHER older bird got sick, with *almost* the same symptoms as the first: lethargic, wings down, pale face and comb, and mucousy bright green poops. This is the hen I’m now most concerned about. She’s not snapping out of it like the first one did.
In the meantime, the only symptom the three new silkies are showing is just diarrhea, but not even the same green stuff as my two older birds, just brown-yellow liquid poo. Otherwise they are acting normal, aside from a few sneezes here and there, but nothing frequent.
So my actual question is this: should I dose my second sick bantam hen with Corid again, since it *seemed* to help my first one? The other antibiotic I looked for was Duramycin 10, but I could only find it in large volumes for cattle dosing.
Also after I dosed my birds with the Wazine, I read that Ivermectic is actually a better broad-spectrum dewormer/antiparasitic, so should I used that instead, or just re-dose with the Wazine in a week like the instructions say? I hate the idea of overloading my birds with tons of medications, but I just want them to get better.
it’s so hard to tell with silkies.) I threw them in together with my two otherwise healthy 6 year old bantam hens.Anyway, since then:
One of my two older hens got sick a few days after introducing the new birds. Acting listless, sitting puffed up, wings down, slight dark tint to her comb, and mushy, bright green poops. I thought I might’ve been dealing with cocci so I did a course of Corid, and my hen got better, though now I’m not actually sure if it was even the Corid that made her better necessarily. Towards the end of the corid run, I found a chicken poop with a big ROUNDWORM in it, I’m not sure which bird it came from though. So, I halted the Corid and dosed them with Wazine.
Since then, my OTHER older bird got sick, with *almost* the same symptoms as the first: lethargic, wings down, pale face and comb, and mucousy bright green poops. This is the hen I’m now most concerned about. She’s not snapping out of it like the first one did.
In the meantime, the only symptom the three new silkies are showing is just diarrhea, but not even the same green stuff as my two older birds, just brown-yellow liquid poo. Otherwise they are acting normal, aside from a few sneezes here and there, but nothing frequent.
So my actual question is this: should I dose my second sick bantam hen with Corid again, since it *seemed* to help my first one? The other antibiotic I looked for was Duramycin 10, but I could only find it in large volumes for cattle dosing.
Also after I dosed my birds with the Wazine, I read that Ivermectic is actually a better broad-spectrum dewormer/antiparasitic, so should I used that instead, or just re-dose with the Wazine in a week like the instructions say? I hate the idea of overloading my birds with tons of medications, but I just want them to get better.
