5 week still pooping bright red blood after 2 days of Corid

[DobieLover]

Can you get a fecal float done? Most vets will do a fecal regardless of species.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Still blood this morning and now my adult hens are starting with blood. Is it possible this is not coccidia but some sort of bacteria?

Please share what you are feeding? Are you supplementing any vitamins or anything?

Fecal float at my vet is $25...

How many birds in how much space? What is the bedding? Can you post pics of the bird(s).

Some chickens have yellow skin. Pigment can vary with feed.

 

[8kbakers]

The hens were on natures best organic layer crumbles but due to winter moulting and recently getting the chick I put them all on natures best organic starter from TSC. About once a week I give them Avia charge 2000 but I'm not giving them that while they are on corid. I started them all on a little bit of kyolic garlic which I use as an antibiotic. My one hen has had liver issues and is on milk thistle twice a day. I only have two adults and the one chick. I used to use pine shavings but no longer bc my older hen was having gizzard issues and eating them. So I use clean blankets now. But they are only in there at night anyway. It's all kept very tidy.

 

[townchicks]

Maybe try a probiotic? I'm not sure it will help, but it can't hurt.

 

[8kbakers]

I just picked up the "save a chick" probiotic from tractor supply. Hopefully it'll help give them a boost.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Here are pics taken at various times over two days. Sorry I posted top pic twice. I'm new here. Learning curve. Top pic was taken Friday and I think the bottom was Saturday morning. Today is Sunday and I haven't been out yet to check since it's so early. Will update though.

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I'm not sure what to do about sulmet. Before all of this started, his eyelids and beak started to turn yellowish. I've only had him two weeks and he wasn't like that beforehand. I assumed it was just the feed doing it. But then I started noticing a yellow tinge on his urates. I'm not sure if he has anything liver going on or not and sulmet is so hard on their liver. I just don't know what to do.

Still blood this morning and now my adult hens are starting with blood. Is it possible this is not coccidia but some sort of bacteria?

Can you post a photo of the chick? You mention the beak and eye lids turning yellow?
Are you feeding anything like Berries to your chicks and hens?

I would try to get a fecal float if at all possible. The poop is too bloody. If you can't get testing, then get the Sulfa drug and give it in conjunction with the Corid.

Don't give any supplementation (vitamins/electrolytes) that contain Vitamin B1 until after you finish your course of treatments.

@Eggcessive may come along and give better suggestions than I.

 

[8kbakers]

Not feeding any berries although there are these hard seeds they eat next to the catulpa tree. I have no idea what they are. I'll attach a pic. They poop them out now and then.

Not as much blood today. Last bright red blood was yesterday morning. Now he only has bits of orange which I assume is irritation from the corid or else just remnants of irritation from the cocci damage.

I'll attach a pic of him with white eyelids the day I got him at 4 weeks of age (bottom pic). Second to last pic is of him at 5 weeks and you can see the yellow. I think it's from the corn but I'm not positive. He is now 6 weeks old. He is a salmon faverolle.

 

[Eggcessive]

Sulfa can be hard on kidneys and liver. So it must be given with the correct dosage and length of time in mind. Sulmet cannot be purchased anymore from feed stores, and most sulfa drugs come from vet prescription. Some may be purchased online. I would get a fecal test tomorrow at your local vets if possible, to look for a coccidia overload. Since he seems normal, the blood might just be from residual intestinal irritation, but that looks like a lot of blood. Hopefully, by tomorrow, the blood will clear up in his poops, but I would be tempted to get sulfadimethoxine, Albon, or SMZ-TMP tomorrow locally by a vet.

Edited to say, glad the blood has cleared up.

 

[8kbakers]

This is today's poop. You can see the orange hidden in there.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

The poop looks much better.

Does the chicks and hens have access to grit? I don't know what those seeds are either, but if they have grit, they should be able to process those.

The yellow around the eye looks normal to me. The photo where he is just white, looks like he is pale and sickly.