7 week old with loss of balance, finding it hard to stand - Updated - it was cocci?

[soler]

I totally agree on the doses! But in the first couple of days i was using a tiny fraction, and then reading on the board, it seems people that had success were flooding the birds with vitamin b (supposedly any excess is eliminated, being water soluble), and as far as i have read, they can't overdose on the turmeric and the st john's worth. I am not overdosing on the nutridrench as it does have fat soluble vitamins in there, so for that i am using the 1 ml they recommend.

But I'll keep you posted on what i find. Poops are still normal. Getting parasite/cocci results on that tomorrow. I think this may be a temporary perk up anyways before the downturn. We'll see.

 

[leadwolf1]

I have had the hypericum cause the paralysis to be worse if the dose is too large. Just be careful with it...

 

[soler]

woah... ok...will dose that down then

 

[GoodwinMaine]

Sometimes reading more is worse! Information is good but the more I read the more worried I become of everything!! I hate to start a new thread or hijack another, but we have a girl with similar issues. I am really curious to know what you find out. Ours is young (4 or 5 months) normal until yesterday morning, no signs of trouble till then. We just noticed she was stumbling around... it's like staying upright is too tiring so she just lays down. Eating, drinking, pooping normally. We separated her so the others wouldn't pick on her.

 

[welasharon]

Sometimes reading more is worse! Information is good but the more I read the more worried I become of everything!! I hate to start a new thread or hijack another, but we have a girl with similar issues. I am really curious to know what you find out. Ours is young (4 or 5 months) normal until yesterday morning, no signs of trouble till then. We just noticed she was stumbling around... it's like staying upright is too tiring so she just lays down. Eating, drinking, pooping normally. We separated her so the others wouldn't pick on her.

THis is what mine did too. THe one that had it longer took longer to recover but the second one I started on vitamins the second day of symptoms and it was better the next day and within a few days I was no longer sure which one it was.

 

[leadwolf1]

I'm with you. I had my chickens having all kinds of maladies. Unfortunately, I was correct when I suspected Marek's. Everyone told me it was a head injury. I wish I had listened to myself. Once I had the diagnosis, through necropsy, of Marek's..that's when I really started digging into any information that I could find.

Sometimes reading more is worse! Information is good but the more I read the more worried I become of everything!! I hate to start a new thread or hijack another, but we have a girl with similar issues. I am really curious to know what you find out. Ours is young (4 or 5 months) normal until yesterday morning, no signs of trouble till then. We just noticed she was stumbling around... it's like staying upright is too tiring so she just lays down. Eating, drinking, pooping normally. We separated her so the others wouldn't pick on her.

 

[soler]

Well. I put her on the grass this morning to get some sunshine, and she is definitely walking more. But her right leg is weaker. So she'll now take 5-6 steps forward, a couple backwards then sit down. She has a bit of hard time getting back up and has to shuffle a bit. She looks a bit frustrated but she is trying though. Vs a few days back, when she could barely move, it's an improvement.

As long as she eats and shows no deterioration, i am going to give her some time.

the only downside so far from the B and the turmeric is that her white chest and face feathers are all yellow from the feeding syringe splatters (and so are a lot of my t-shirts).

 

[soler]

poop results: positive for cocci and roundworms. Got the rest of the chicks tested, and they tested positive for cocci too, but not roundworm. though they all look great. and zero other symptoms. Everyone very active, no bloody poops.

I am going to treat with corid and wazine. But i assume i can't put both in the water, can i?

p.s. tested a mix of poops the grown chickens too that have been free ranging and had worm guard mixed in their food - some have roundworm, some don't. So the wormguard (DE based) is not all that effective....

 

[Leslieb118]

I don't know if you can do them both at the same time, but I'd definitely start the Corid now while waiting to find out if you can go ahead and do Wazine as well. Cocci can bring a chicken down much more quickly than roundworms can, in my opinion, so I'd start with the Corid for sure.

 

[soler]

Thanks Leslie, i just gave the corid to the sick one, and she's drinking the water already. Still looking into the wazine.