2nd Round of Coccidiosis Help Needed!

Jmania

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May 3, 2024
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First thank you to all the help I got previously with my first chick, shes running around like crazy again :)

When my grey chicken got sick I did what everyone suggested gave her some drench doses and gave the whole 6 Chickibiddie flock the treatment does in the water for 5 days the one that was sick got it for 6 days because is started her a day early before i knew to give it to all of them.

Now its been 4 days with non treatment water and they are about 10ish weeks old and one of my speckled chickens is now pooping blood, lethargic and poofy (the same as the grey bird was acting the first round)

Im assuming this is Coccidiosis in another bird. Does anyone have any other suggestions since they all got the treatment dose and now another one is sick? I just gave her a drench dose and put the preventive amount of corid in the water because i dont know if i can give them another round of treatment does so close to the last one, can I?

Any advice appreciated i need all the help i can get, I'm at a roadblock and know what to do.

Also i have sprayed no chemicals for bugs or weeds and i use miracle grow herb and veggie soil, dirt and cow manure compost for my garden. The only food they get that they dont still out of the garden and eat out of the yard is starter grower formula not with antibiotics.

Please and Thank You!
Jess
 

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You can and should use the treatment dose again. When you finish it, you're supposed to use the prevention dose for a while (I forget how long exactly, 10 days or so).

Just so you know, cocci can infect many other animals and their manure can spread it, although it does need to stay wet for it to stay alive. Miracle Grow and many common brands of soil use sewage sludge as a fertilizer, otherwise known as "biosolids" and the EPA allows them to use the term compost to include that category of waste.
If possible, I would fence the chickens out of the garden for now. Soil can be considered safer if it's been through a hard freeze, or an extended dry period (aka Arizona). The wetter your location, the more likely that parasites will thrive.
 

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