Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Christie Rhae]

Well I just keep adding to my chicken experience. Now I get to learn about coccidiosis.

I just noticed today that two of my black John Blehm chicks are all bunched up, tail down, head pulled in, some red in droppings. I felt the chicks crops and they are empty. I can feel their sharp breastbones. They are a little over 4 weeks old. I put them in their outdoor pen a week or so ago.
The nearest feed store is 2 hours away. I had to have my husband leave the job he is working on and drive a hour to pick up Corrid for me. He will not be home until dark so I cannot even begin treatment until tomorrow morning.
It has been damp here lately tho the pen is totally covered.
Live and learn.... I feed medicated chick feed but I am reading that it is probably not enough to protect them. I have never had an outbreak before so thought what I was doing was enough. Guess I get to learn through experience what coccidiosis is all about now. Great.... like it isn't hard enough just to get chicks here...then my most precious chicks get sick.

CrappOla...

 

[Lark Rise]

Well I just keep adding to my chicken experience. Now I get to learn about coccidiosis.

I just noticed today that two of my black John Blehm chicks are all bunched up, tail down, head pulled in, some red in droppings. I felt the chicks crops and they are empty. I can feel their sharp breastbones. They are a little over 4 weeks old. I put them in their outdoor pen a week or so ago.
The nearest feed store is 2 hours away. I had to have my husband leave the job he is working on and drive a hour to pick up Corrid for me. He will not be home until dark so I cannot even begin treatment until tomorrow morning.
It has been damp here lately tho the pen is totally covered.
Live and learn.... I feed medicated chick feed but I am reading that it is probably not enough to protect them. I have never had an outbreak before so thought what I was doing was enough. Guess I get to learn through experience what coccidiosis is all about now. Great.... like it isn't hard enough just to get chicks here...then my most precious chicks get sick.

CrappOla...

I read this awhile back. It is very insightful.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/coccidiosis-and-medicated-feed

 

[DMRippy]

Well I just keep adding to my chicken experience. Now I get to learn about coccidiosis.

I just noticed today that two of my black John Blehm chicks are all bunched up, tail down, head pulled in, some red in droppings. I felt the chicks crops and they are empty. I can feel their sharp breastbones. They are a little over 4 weeks old. I put them in their outdoor pen a week or so ago.
The nearest feed store is 2 hours away. I had to have my husband leave the job he is working on and drive a hour to pick up Corrid for me. He will not be home until dark so I cannot even begin treatment until tomorrow morning.
It has been damp here lately tho the pen is totally covered.
Live and learn.... I feed medicated chick feed but I am reading that it is probably not enough to protect them. I have never had an outbreak before so thought what I was doing was enough. Guess I get to learn through experience what coccidiosis is all about now. Great.... like it isn't hard enough just to get chicks here...then my most precious chicks get sick.

CrappOla...

Sorry, I hope they get better. I have one chick that was that way and I switched them back to medicated feed and vitamins and it seems better... maybe I better get some too.

 

[Reyvaughn]

I'm sorry to hear you have cocci in your flock, Christie.
I have had a few casualties and many babies have come through it, too. As long as their poo isn't extremely bloody, there is hope. If you are using the powder (20%, I believe), mix 1 teaspoon per gallon of water and change it daily. You should see improvement in as little as 2 days. If they aren't getting better by day 3, I'd switch to Sulmet on day 4. Sulmet is harder on their stomachs, but Corrid doesn't treat all strains of cocci. So far I have only had to use Sulmet once because Corrid wasn't working. I keep both on hand just in case anyways.

I had many issues with cocci last year while living at the old farm. I actually had to treat the grounds. Since moving I have had one case of cocci. I don't feed medicated feed, either.

 

[Christie Rhae]

Quote: Thank you!
Wish I had read that a month ago. I usually pull some sprouted grains or sunflower seeds out of the ground and give them to my brooder chicks with roots and dirt and all. They love to scratch at the dirt and run around like they have a treasure with a tender root in their beaks.

With my chicks from John Blehm I was more careful. I wanted to be extra careful and not expose them to anything too soon so I did not give them any sprouted seeds with dirt.

With all the reading I have done how the heck did I miss the coccidiosis treatment subject? Never had a problem so I guess I just ignored it for more important things like... "is that black bird an E/E black or ER/ER black?" lol... Jeez Christie...learn how to take care of chicks first....

 

[chicknadventure]

Zanna i am loving this education on feathers and recessive genes so thanks for asking

Christi i am so sorryabout your babies. Fingers crossed they bounce back quikcly.quickly

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Well I just keep adding to my chicken experience. Now I get to learn about coccidiosis.

I just noticed today that two of my black John Blehm chicks are all bunched up, tail down, head pulled in, some red in droppings. I felt the chicks crops and they are empty. I can feel their sharp breastbones. They are a little over 4 weeks old. I put them in their outdoor pen a week or so ago.
The nearest feed store is 2 hours away. I had to have my husband leave the job he is working on and drive a hour to pick up Corrid for me. He will not be home until dark so I cannot even begin treatment until tomorrow morning.
It has been damp here lately tho the pen is totally covered.
Live and learn.... I feed medicated chick feed but I am reading that it is probably not enough to protect them. I have never had an outbreak before so thought what I was doing was enough. Guess I get to learn through experience what coccidiosis is all about now. Great.... like it isn't hard enough just to get chicks here...then my most precious chicks get sick.

CrappOla...

CrappOla indeed, Christie!

I hope they recover REALLY quickly for you.

 

[tolipgirl]

Quote: Are they really? My hen lays green eggs and has a tail. EEs don't have tails.

 

[kraftyladies]

Are they really? My hen lays green eggs and has a tail. EEs don't have tails.

EE's don't have tails? They are just mixed breed, not true Ameraucanas, which is why they lay green eggs, not blue. They are normal chickens, with normal traits, tails and all. Araucana are rumpless, maybe that's what you are thinking of as far as chickens that don't have "tails"?

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Quote:

Are they really? My hen lays green eggs and has a tail. EEs don't have tails.

Easter Eggers most certainly can and do have tails. I'm sure rumpless EEs also happen. Loosely, Easter Eggers are any bird that lays a coloured egg (blue egg gene) but doesn't fit the SOP Araucana or Ameraucana breed description. (Feathers, leg colour, etc.)