I have a 1 month old Welsummer chick that has been sick for going on a week now.
1. First symptom was blood in her poop. Not diarrhea, just red poop.
Since I was thinking cocci I got some corrid and have been top dressing her feed with
this as all Wilco had was the 10 lb. bag of calf pellets or the gallon bottle of concentrate
($89). No dosing for chickens on the label.
The blood stained poop got better and her poops all looked like normal chicken poop
until I stopped the corrid then this horrible, fetid, tar-y looking poop came. Don't know
if the smell was from the corrid or not but it was awful and only came after I stopped
the medicine. Since I was thinking maybe the cocci was still present I started the corrid
again and she is on it now.
Up until today she was the only chick with blood tinged stool.
2. In the meantime, while she was dealing with this she woke up one morning with her
right eye glued shut and making these little, quiet sneezes. Her eyes were both
watery and she had a slight nose sniffle. I haven't taken her temp but when she
sits on my shoulder (I have had her indoors in a crate since this started) she feels
really hot. There is no smell to her breath or the mucous and while she is on the corrid
her poop smells and looks just like regular chicken poop.
She has been holding her own, not getting worse but not getting better, until last
night. While we were watching NCIS (yes, the bird and I), she had a few spells of
beak-open gasping breaths. After a few of those her breathing went back to normal.
Up until today she is the only chick out of 35 that has had symptoms. This morning while out in the pen with the other 34 I noticed one of them poop the blood colored poop. Not diarrhea, just red poop. My avian vet is out until Tuesday and Wilco is 1 1/2 hours away. Also, because of the mish mash of symptoms I don't know if I would know what to give her even if I could get over there.
Anybody got any ideas?
1. First symptom was blood in her poop. Not diarrhea, just red poop.
Since I was thinking cocci I got some corrid and have been top dressing her feed with
this as all Wilco had was the 10 lb. bag of calf pellets or the gallon bottle of concentrate
($89). No dosing for chickens on the label.
The blood stained poop got better and her poops all looked like normal chicken poop
until I stopped the corrid then this horrible, fetid, tar-y looking poop came. Don't know
if the smell was from the corrid or not but it was awful and only came after I stopped
the medicine. Since I was thinking maybe the cocci was still present I started the corrid
again and she is on it now.
Up until today she was the only chick with blood tinged stool.
2. In the meantime, while she was dealing with this she woke up one morning with her
right eye glued shut and making these little, quiet sneezes. Her eyes were both
watery and she had a slight nose sniffle. I haven't taken her temp but when she
sits on my shoulder (I have had her indoors in a crate since this started) she feels
really hot. There is no smell to her breath or the mucous and while she is on the corrid
her poop smells and looks just like regular chicken poop.
She has been holding her own, not getting worse but not getting better, until last
night. While we were watching NCIS (yes, the bird and I), she had a few spells of
beak-open gasping breaths. After a few of those her breathing went back to normal.
Up until today she is the only chick out of 35 that has had symptoms. This morning while out in the pen with the other 34 I noticed one of them poop the blood colored poop. Not diarrhea, just red poop. My avian vet is out until Tuesday and Wilco is 1 1/2 hours away. Also, because of the mish mash of symptoms I don't know if I would know what to give her even if I could get over there.
Anybody got any ideas?
