Hey everyone I have a few questions about the birds I just got from some BYC members. Recently one of my chicks died and it looked like as it died blood was gushing out of it's anus.
I immediately separated the remaining birds (at midnight so great timing). I put the visibly ill birds separate from the "unsure" status birds. Those birds did not get moved until I saw them poop (if it was good looking they were moved into a container with other normal pooping birds). The birds who had blood in their stool were kept in that container. So altogether I had a few tubs ranking: Good (fine poops/alert etc) Better (blood in stool but more alert than 'worse' birds) Worse birds with a slim chance
I was wondering if this was a good way to handle a crisis situation in the future.
Anyways back to my current predicament-
I thought that the chicks had coccidiosis after doing some reading so today I went to the store and bought corid 20% and gave 1/2 tsp to a gallon of water. They seem to be doing a little better.
Questions:
-How is coccidiosis different than mareks?
-How hot should I be keeping ill chicks (it's pretty hot/humid weather so I don't want them to be too hot)
- How can I tell coccidiosis apart from another disease I have been reading about, called Necrotic enteritis
-I bought save a chick electrolytes and probiotic- should I administer at this time or hold off until course of coccidoisis treatment is complete?
- Is 5 days enough time to give them the medicine?
I'm kind of surprised my birds got sick. I keep their cage really clean and water with a little ACV as well. It would make sense that they got this illness from when I take them outside but they are still only a few weeks old.
Should I have been feeding them medicated feed or is this just personal preference to what people feed chicks? Since they might already have this illness would there be any point to switching to medicated feed?
Sorry for all the questions but these are my first chicks. We all love them and it would be really upsetting if they didn't make improvements so I just want to make sure I handled things well but also if there is anything you think I should have done different. Thanks in advance for your help we are all really worried about the chicks
I immediately separated the remaining birds (at midnight so great timing). I put the visibly ill birds separate from the "unsure" status birds. Those birds did not get moved until I saw them poop (if it was good looking they were moved into a container with other normal pooping birds). The birds who had blood in their stool were kept in that container. So altogether I had a few tubs ranking: Good (fine poops/alert etc) Better (blood in stool but more alert than 'worse' birds) Worse birds with a slim chance
I was wondering if this was a good way to handle a crisis situation in the future.
Anyways back to my current predicament-
I thought that the chicks had coccidiosis after doing some reading so today I went to the store and bought corid 20% and gave 1/2 tsp to a gallon of water. They seem to be doing a little better.
Questions:
-How is coccidiosis different than mareks?
-How hot should I be keeping ill chicks (it's pretty hot/humid weather so I don't want them to be too hot)
- How can I tell coccidiosis apart from another disease I have been reading about, called Necrotic enteritis
-I bought save a chick electrolytes and probiotic- should I administer at this time or hold off until course of coccidoisis treatment is complete?
- Is 5 days enough time to give them the medicine?
I'm kind of surprised my birds got sick. I keep their cage really clean and water with a little ACV as well. It would make sense that they got this illness from when I take them outside but they are still only a few weeks old.
Should I have been feeding them medicated feed or is this just personal preference to what people feed chicks? Since they might already have this illness would there be any point to switching to medicated feed?
Sorry for all the questions but these are my first chicks. We all love them and it would be really upsetting if they didn't make improvements so I just want to make sure I handled things well but also if there is anything you think I should have done different. Thanks in advance for your help we are all really worried about the chicks
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