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    Help please! Buff acting sick after introducing new chickens

    Update: Britney unfortunately passed Friday morning, and I had the great displeasure of seeing it happen. At least she wasn't alone. I found a vet that performed a necropsy. Turns out she likely had ovarian cancer that had spread to her liver. So there was nothing that I could have done. She...
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    Help please! Buff acting sick after introducing new chickens

    She made it through last night but she's still about the same with no improvement coming up on 24 hours with the corid and ACS in her water. I'm having to syringe most of the water to her now. Her crop seems better, but she's not pooping nearly at all, and when she does it's mostly brown...
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    Help please! Buff acting sick after introducing new chickens

    First doses of acidified copper sulfate and corid administered. She's not as interested in water anymore :( but I was able to get her to drink some. Not as much as I'd like. I'll try again later. She's just completely zapped of energy. Poor thing. Syringed her a bit more yogurt molasses...
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    Help please! Buff acting sick after introducing new chickens

    Okay, just added some corid to her water, I found a place close to me that sells acidified copper sulftate, so i'll pick that up this afternoon. Can I give her both corid and ACS at the same time? Or should I alternate in her water?
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    Help please! Buff acting sick after introducing new chickens

    Thank you! Both of these have been very helpful. Sometimes it feels like I'm throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. They are so fragile when they get this sick. I just ordered some of the acidified copper sulfate and had it next day shipped. I hope she can hang on till then...
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    Help please! Buff acting sick after introducing new chickens

    Hi @2ndTink thanks so much for your reply. It's not a bright green, but green typical of a bird that's not eating much/at all. She declined since my initial post. Now the thing I'm most concerned with is her crop. It's not emptying properly and she's not interested in food at all because of it...
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    Help please! Buff acting sick after introducing new chickens

    Hi there, looking for some advice. Our four year old buff is acting sick after introducing two new birds. She had been a solo chicken for a while (I’ve always kept a small flock, never more than 3 at a time) and didn’t seem to mind, but we had recently built a bigger coop and run, and decided...
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    Coccidiosis Again!?

    Thanks @Eggcessive. The texture was very mucusy-stringy, hard to represent it well in photos. Her poop looks better today but I'm still worried about the crop. Hopefully the egg, eggshells, and yogurt that she willingly will eat will help soothe the crop and get her some nutrients. I also put...
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    Coccidiosis Again!?

    Her crop was not fully empty this morning. It wasn't huge, but it wasn't empty, it felt about the size of a ping pong ball, I massaged it with mineral oil and that definitely loosened things up, but still not great. She seems less interested in her layer feed. She's just kind of peckish. Doesn't...
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    Coccidiosis Again!?

    Hi Everyone I wanted to give an update. I'm still not sure what's up. She hasn't improved, but hasn't necessarily gotten worse. Her poop keeps changing and non of it seems normal. A day or so ago she spent a lot of time in the nesting box but didn't produce an egg. I freaked out that she may be...
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    Questions about corid/coccidiosis

    @clickchicks Not sure what part of town you're in, but for future reference, Callahan's General Store off of 183 by the airport stocks Corid!
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    Coccidiosis Again!?

    Here's a couple photos of her. She lays the prettiest blue-green eggs! (Far right)
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    Coccidiosis Again!?

    @dawg53 @Eggcessive They found nothing in the fecal. So I don't know what's going on with her. Poop seemed a little more normal looking today, albeit still a bit watery. She just seems to be low energy. Not scratching around the yard as much as she normally does. Just chilling under her...
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    Coccidiosis Again!?

    I've gone to Research Pet and Bird Hospital, and Block House Creek Animal Hospital (out in Cedar Park). Of the two I would probably say that Block House is better with the chickens. I had to get proper bumblefoot surgery done on one of my chickens and used Research Pet and Bird and the...
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    Coccidiosis Again!?

    Thank you both for the replies. I really do appreciate it! I took a sample to the vet and they will hopefully have results for me soon. I have Valbazen on hand but have never used it, as none of my chickens have seemed to need it. We'll see. Fingers crossed. She just pooped again and there was...
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    Coccidiosis Again!?

    Thank you. I called the vet I normally take them to and they won't do a fecal without giving her an exam, and the next available exam is July 4th. :( I will call around to other vets in the Austin area. Unfortunately there aren't a ton that offer bird care. I have never wormed her, she's about...
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    Are my chickens sick?

    Looks like maybe dry pox. I had a bird with these. I applied neosporin to them until they healed, which they eventually did. Takes about two weeks to run its course.
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    Coccidiosis Again!?

    Hi There, Well, I've had my share of tragedy over the past year and a half of raising chickens for the first time. I had a buff die of coccidiosis last year and I'm afraid I my easter egger is coming down with it, almost EXACTLY a year later. The thing is, I've been treating with Corid the...
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    Saying goodbye to my favorite hen

    They had been on the soil since I first let them out as 7 week olds. It has been a particularly wet spring, but I hear the incubation period for cocci is only days, and it hasn't rained in a week at least. This makes me think she could have had it longer, just wasn't showing signs yet. I did...
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    Saying goodbye to my favorite hen

    She was just about 9mo old. A terrific layer, and generally always seemed strongest.
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