Updated with Very Graphic Pictures! - Blackhead Five Miles from My Place

[casportpony]

Kathy, I have some 2 wk old Cochin babies. How old do they have to be to worm them, and at what strength using safeguard?

Were they brooded on or off the ground?

-Kathy

 

[margaret8]

Were they brooded on or off the ground?

-Kathy

In my clean new brooder in the utility room.

 

[margaret8]

In my clean new brooder in the utility room.

I got them as day old chicks from a feed store.

 

[casportpony]

No need to de-worm them until they have spent *several* weeks on the dirt, and then it would be best to have a vet do a fecal float.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

More pictures:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/949401/necropsy-pictures-will-add-comments-later

-Kathy

 

[ullmankat]

Where can you get the medicine to treat them? Not that I have any signs but I do have a mixed flock and would like to have medicine on hand. Also if I wanted to use it as a preventative would I just dose all birds one time?

 

[casportpony]

To treat blackhead you also need metronidazole and probably Baytril.
To find the metronidazole, google Fish-Zole, AquaZole or Meditrich.

Baytril - https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/959119/baytril-enrofloxacin-sources

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

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