A Lonely Desperado!

[Ol Grey Mare]

I gave them some wormer and electrolytes for cows, horses, poultry, and dogs. Any other suggestions?

Yes - stop mucking around with all of that and go get some corid.

 

[Sick Birds]

How many people have suggested Corid? And that watermelon, was it good enough for peopl to eat?

-Kathy

I don't know exactly how many people did suggest it. Do you know? The watermelon was fine. This is the first time in my 7 years of chicken farming that this has happened. I haven't changed a thing since I have started. Do you have any suggestions of what I might need to change? I have fed my chickens produce every day for years, and this has never happened before.
Thank you for your advice,
Maddie~

 

[Sick Birds]

I would have gotten some of this Corid stuff, if I would not have had to drive so far. They were dying so fast that I did the best and fastest thing I could do.
Thanks,
M~

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I think everyone that replied suggested that you treat for coccidiosis, but it sounds like you've made up you mind and aren't going to.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Amprolium ( Corid and Amprol) is used for treating coccidiosis and is sold online and in the cattle section of feedstores. It looks like this:








FDA recommendations:
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/animaldrugsatfda/details.cfm?dn=013-149
"Chickens
Indications: For the treatment of coccidiosis.
Amount: Administer at the 0.012 percent level in drinking water as soon as coccidiosis is diagnosed and continue for 3 to 5 days (in severe outbreaks, give amprolium at the 0.024 percent level); continue with 0.006 percent amprolium-medicated water for an additional 1 to 2 weeks."

And this link has these instructions:
http://www.drugs.com/vet/amprol-9-6-solution-can.html
"Poultry - as Soon As Caecal Coccidiosis Is Diagnosed, Give 0.024% Amprolium In The Drinking Water For 5 To 7 Days. Continue The Treatment With 0.006% Amprolium Medicated Water For An Additional One To Two Weeks. No Other Source Of Drinking Water Should Be Available To The Birds During This Time."

Per Gallon doses are:
The preventative dose (.006%) for Corid Powder is 1/3 teaspoon.
The preventative dose (.006%) for Corid liquid is 1/2 teaspoon.

The moderate outbreak dose (.012%) for Corid Powder is 3/4 teaspoon.
The moderate outbreak dose (.012%) for Corid liquid is 1 teaspoon.

The severe outbreak dose (.024%) for Corid Powder is 1.5 teaspoons
The severe outbreak dose (.024%) for Corid liquid is 2 teaspoon.

 

[casportpony]

What you really should do is take one to a vet or send a dead body for necropsy.

-Kathy

 

[Tamara119]

I don't know exactly how many people did suggest it. Do you know? The watermelon was fine. This is the first time in my 7 years of chicken farming that this has happened. I haven't changed a thing since I have started. Do you have any suggestions of what I might need to change? I have fed my chickens produce every day for years, and this has never happened before.
Thank you for your advice,
Maddie~

There's nothing wrong with feeding them produce in addition to regular chick food. The produce and watermelon did not cause this. Coccidiosis is in the soil and can infect chicks or not. You may go years without ever having a case of it, then suddenly have several chicks fall ill with it. The only thing you need to change is to go buy some corid and give it to them!!! We are URGING you to save your chicks; I'm not sure why you aren't doing what we are telling you to do.

 

[crazyfeathers]

This thread makes me very sad, those poor babies. Pat yourselves on the backs for trying to help, you did what you could. I am never unkind on BYC but I am glad that I am not one of her chickens. Those chicks were defenseless and counted on the human to care for them, and unfortunately they will not get the care they need to survive. There are times we don't have a pot to pee in but our animals will Always be taken care of, we decided to own animals the animals had no choice.

 

[casportpony]

I gotta be honest, I had a feeling this was going to happen because of the user-name that was chosen.

-Kathy

 

[Sseckel]

Honestly I think you need to think this treatment plan through a bit more with the wormer. I grew up farming with cattle, swine, sheep and chickens. your birds have coccidiosis I would bet vast amounts of money on it. Now I understand that you want to treat them as quickly as possible and wormer was at the closer store however you can't help a drowning victim by holding their head under water. Wormer will only treat worms, coccidiosis is a bacteria NOT a worm, it will do nothing to help your chickens. It would have been fast and now cheaper for you to save the money from the wormer and time to get it and just gone ahead and gotten the right medication in the first place. Now for you and your chickens I hope we are all wrong and this is not coccidiosis but I am willing to bet that the rest of your chicks will be dead in 36-48 hours.

Now here is the part I really want you to listen to. Be sure you are thoroughly washing your hands with anti bacterial soap up to your elbows and changing your clothes after each interaction with your chicks. Coccidiosis is contagious to humans. My brother contracted it from a bucket bottle calf when he was 14. In humans the bacteria is referred to as Cryptosporidium. My brother lost nearly 30 lbs and was in the ICU for 4 days. That same summer Cryptosporidium killed 4 children in Minnesota. It is a very swift and painful infection and also highly contagious. It is a very durable bacteria and can live outside the body for extended periods of time. It is also immune to chlorine disinfection, so you have to be sure you are cleaning with a hospital grade disinfectant if you don't want your next batch of chicks to get infected or to get it yourself.