WATERY POOP

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Everyone here is so quick to worm a chicken at the drop of hat....Hey why don't you find out if they have worms first. You can get a kit from My Pet Chicken or take a sample to your Vet. Having worms is hard on a chicken but also worming a chicken that doesn't have worms is hard also.. Would you take an antibiotic if you didn't have a infection? Just my thoughts !

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Zoom Zoom said:
My RIR roo has had "loose" poop since he was very young. It wasn't bad , I thought it was normal for him, so I didn't worry about it. The six hens are fine. I started feeding the flock (7 in all) Activia yogurt (with fruit - plain with probiotics isn't available here) three days ago thinking that would clear it up. Yesterday it was a little worse and today it is mosly liquid. I see no signs of worms. He is eating, drinking and acting normal. Gobbles up the yogurt and, this morning, warm oatmeal. Could the probiotics be making this worse? Should I be doing something else. They are all 19 weeks old.

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Well, above is what I'm getting when I try to insert a picture so here's what I'm seeing. There is a small amount of dark in the poop surrounded partially by a milky, thicker liquid and then a clear, running liquid.

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Hi Rolla, We have New Hampshire Reds and one of them as what looks like your photo ( watery, sometimes white with bits of poo in it,) sometimes resembles watery cabbage soup. She has had it for 3-4 months now, we took her to the vets who gave us antibiotics to treat all 3 in the water, still no change, so back to vets who gave her a mulit-vit injection. She is very health looking, very active and ravenous 24/7. we have just finished a course of Layers pellets/ flubenvent and alas no change, they have cider vinegar in their water daily and fresh greens. Solids go in the front end and a liquid steam out the rear. She hasn't laid since about October last year, sorry we do not have an answer, but sympathize, its not nice to see her like this but we love her to bits and hope for an improvement.
 
Roestacey1 said:
Hi Rolla, We have New Hampshire Reds and one of them as what looks like your photo ( watery, sometimes white with bits of poo in it,) sometimes resembles watery cabbage soup. She has had it for 3-4 months now, we took her to the vets who gave us antibiotics to treat all 3 in the water, still no change, so back to vets who gave her a mulit-vit injection. She is very health looking, very active and ravenous 24/7. we have just finished a course of Layers pellets/ flubenvent and alas no change, they have cider vinegar in their water daily and fresh greens. Solids go in the front end and a liquid steam out the rear. She hasn't laid since about October last year, sorry we do not have an answer, but sympathize, its not nice to see her like this but we love her to bits and hope for an improvement.
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Stop the ACV and greens. Mix buttermilk with plain boiled white rice in layer feed for a few days, that should stop the runs.
 
Traphill said:
Everyone here is so quick to worm a chicken at the drop of hat....Hey why don't you find out if they have worms first. You can get a kit from My Pet Chicken or take a sample to your Vet. Having worms is hard on a chicken but also worming a chicken that doesn't have worms is hard also.. Would you take an antibiotic if you didn't have a infection? Just my thoughts !

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"Prophylactic Deworming

I have been saying this for years (because I have been seeing this for years!) and here it is: Many young and adult birds can be harboring ascarids (especially if they were parent-raised for any length of time) and you can run fecals all day, and guess what? The fecals will almost always be negative. A paper out of the Univ. of Georgia a few years back confirmed this. Many a time I have been a hero when I have dewormed a bird during a second or third opinion, when it passes a pile of ascarids and shocks the owner after being repeatedly told by other vets that "the fecal was negative." Well, deworm it anyway, with something safe. I routinely use pyrantel pamoate, since you can't hurt a bird with it, unless you aspirate it! "
Source:
http://www.exoticpetvet.net/avian/challenges.html
 
casportpony said:
"Prophylactic Deworming

I have been saying this for years (because I have been seeing this for years!) and here it is: Many young and adult birds can be harboring ascarids (especially if they were parent-raised for any length of time) and you can run fecals all day, and guess what? The fecals will almost always be negative. A paper out of the Univ. of Georgia a few years back confirmed this. Many a time I have been a hero when I have dewormed a bird during a second or third opinion, when it passes a pile of ascarids and shocks the owner after being repeatedly told by other vets that "the fecal was negative." Well, deworm it anyway, with something safe. I routinely use pyrantel pamoate, since you can't hurt a bird with it, unless you aspirate it! "
Source:
http://www.exoticpetvet.net/avian/challenges.html
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What's the dosage and for how many days for the Pyrantel Pamoate. Is that similar to Wazine?
 
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Pyrantel Pamoate is not similar to wazine. Wazine is mixed in water and treats large roundworms only.
I know of two types of Pyrantel Pamoate. One is an equine paste and the other is a liquid which must be given orally undiluted. Pyrantel Pamoate treats large roundworms, cecal worms and capillary worms in poultry. Oral dosage is 2.5ml for a 5 pound chicken if you're using the 4.54mg/ml liquid.
 
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dawg53 said:
Pyrantel Pamoate is not similar to wazine. Wazine is mixed in water and treats large roundworms only.
I know of two types of Pyrantel Pamoate. One is an equine paste and the other is a liquid which must be given orally undiluted. Pyrantel Pamoate treats large roundworms, cecal worms and capillary worms in poultry. Oral dosage is 2.5ml for a 5 pound chicken if you're using the 4.54mg/ml liquid.
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The bottle says each teaspoon (5ml) contains 250 mg of medication. So I'm math challenged. What would be the dose. How many doses?
 

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