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My Royal Palm Turkey hatched 4 peachicks two weeks ago. They were fine until about week ago, and then they got that look... standing with eyes shut, loosing weight, not eating. I suspect Blackhead, so they're in my house now and I'm treating with Metronidazole, Baytril and Fenbendazole. Of the three that are still alive, one is showing no symptoms, one is much better, but the 4th is still loosing weight and doesn't have much energy. #4 is being tube fed baby bird food mixed with lactated ringers and hand fed crickets.

Was just looking for other things to help my little ones...
 
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No sulphur droppings, but the turkey poult that I had tested at UC Davis last year didn't either.

I thought it might have been coccidiosis, and it might be, but the fact that the one chick seems to have recovered in three days makes me think Blackhead. Do you know what the dose of Amprolium would be for a 76 gram chick?



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AugeredIn said:
I am not saying it is not blackhead by any means, but that is awful early for blackhead and awful early to show symptoms. Did you see the charchteristic sulphur colored droppings?

My first thought would have been coccidia. Same lethargic symptoms and hits hard when it comes on.
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Just thought I should follow up with my necropsy results from the UCD Lab and they were positive for histomoniasis and negative for coccidiosis.

One of the mistakes I made was in leaving the peachicks outside with their turkey mama on ground where chickens have been. Maybe worming earlier might have saved the two that I lost.

There are two still alive from that hatch, green and red ( leg band colors for for names). Green weighs about 500 grams and red weighs close to 800 grams. Green now lives indoors with access to a heat lamp and is offered many "special" treats to help with weight gain. Both have been treated several times with Fenbendazole. Both have been treated with metronidazole. At this point I think I've got the histomoniasis problem under control.

Since then, I've had four more hatch. Two hatched under my Buff Japanese hen (black and orange), two under a game hen (blue and one that didn't live long enough to get a leg band due to being malpositioned in the shell).

Black, orange, blue and green all live with the little Japanese hen and all are on a routine deworming schedule even though they are inside.
 
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