5th chick dying in my hands right now - help!

[casportpony]

One thing that's missing from your list of medicine is a wormer. Have you ever wormed them properly with Safeguard or Valbazen.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

And about your list, how were the antibiotics given? In the water, orally or injected?

-Kathy

 

[familypendragon]

Have any of your birds ever been tested for mycoplasma? When I send mine of for necropsy they get tested for it.

-Kathy

You know, I am not really sure what they did :/ I know they did the "necropsy" what ever that really means (and they said the only thing visible was pneumonia) and they grew something in petri dishes. Forget what that was called, but the results were "inconclusive" - whatever that means.

 

[familypendragon]

And about your list, how were the antibiotics given? In the water, orally or injected?

-Kathy

Always in the water.

 

[familypendragon]

One thing that's missing from your list of medicine is a wormer. Have you ever wormed them properly with Safeguard or Valbazen.

-Kathy

They had me use Ivomec.

 

[familypendragon]

I took a coop video today because they wanted to see it
[VIDEO]

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Antibiotics in the water is *not* an effective way to treat *any* animal! Growing chicks, laying hens and non-laying chickens all drink a different percentage of their body weight per day. On top of that, some sick birds don't enough water and are usually a little dehydrated. IMNSHO, I think you need to treat sick birds orally or by injection. Until then, you cannot really say that you have tried treating with medication.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Wow, I'm starting to see why you have so many problems. Studies show that ivermectin is *not* and effective poultry wormer. There have also been several posts from people that have used it, done their own necropsies and found their birds loaded with roundworms. *Please* buy a proper wormer like Valbazen or Safeguard and dose them according to their weight. Bang for the buck, Valbazen is the better wormer. Studies show the most effective dose is 20mg/kg, which is ~.2ml per 2.2 pounds. Studies show the most effective dose of Safeguard is 20-50mg/kg 3-5 days in a row, which is .2-.5ml per 2.2 pounds. I give .5ml per 2.2 pounds 5 days in a row when I suspect possible capillary worms.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Quote: What was the name of this "something"? If they grew "something", they also did sensitivities on it. What drugs was it sensitive to?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Here is one on the ivermectin studies:

From: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2816174
Ivermectin as a bird anthelmintic--trials with naturally infected domestic fowl.

Oksanen A, Nikander S.
Abstract

To evaluate the use of ivermectin as a bird anthelmintic, 29 White Leghorn hens naturally infected with Ascaridia spp., Heterakis spp. and Capillaria spp. were treated with 0.2, 2 or 6 mg/kg intramuscularly or 0.2 or 0.8 mg/kg orally. Faecal samples were collected before treatment and at autopsy, 2, 6, or 16 days after treatment, when the intestines were also examined for helminths. None of the treatments gave satisfactory anthelmintic results.