Our EE pullets turned 4 weeks old on Tues., so on Thurs. I moved them to an outdoor playpen for the day. Later that day, one was dead, no apparent cause. I noticed red spots in the now vacant brooder later [I was distracted, getting ready for a houseguest - I feel so bad that I didn't notice anything until then], and the next morning, one chick was visibly ill and another looked slightly "off." So, I am thinking coccidia.
I'd had them on medicated feed at first, then ran out and was feeding non-medicated chick starter that I had bought before reading about the medicated. I'd been using nutri-drench in the water off and on, as well. They spent a little time outdoors in the playpen a few times between weeks 2 & 4, but not much.
The sickly one has her feathers all fluffed, wings out a little, overall acting droopy - she has been still eating and drinking some all along, and yesterday I thought she looked like she was perking up, but today she looks as bad as she did when I first realized she's sick. It cooled off outside, so Fri. a.m., I set up a heat lamp next to their doggy crate in the barn and the sick one likes to sit where it's the warmest.
I put everyone back on the medicated feed the day the first one died, and the third one that seemed slightly puny that day who is now back to normal. I've been trying to get the sick one to take a drop of nutri-drench direct without too much luck, and I rubbed some VetRx under her wings [just a very little bit, on the tips of my fingers].
I'm wondering now if the the sick one is not going to make it. I read something about internal damage from the coccidia that can't be healed? She now looks like she has some white dried poo - very little - around her vent. Does that mean the cocci is backing off?
I got some Corid powder and medicated their water. I don't know what else to do - any advice is appreciated.
I'd had them on medicated feed at first, then ran out and was feeding non-medicated chick starter that I had bought before reading about the medicated. I'd been using nutri-drench in the water off and on, as well. They spent a little time outdoors in the playpen a few times between weeks 2 & 4, but not much.
The sickly one has her feathers all fluffed, wings out a little, overall acting droopy - she has been still eating and drinking some all along, and yesterday I thought she looked like she was perking up, but today she looks as bad as she did when I first realized she's sick. It cooled off outside, so Fri. a.m., I set up a heat lamp next to their doggy crate in the barn and the sick one likes to sit where it's the warmest.
I put everyone back on the medicated feed the day the first one died, and the third one that seemed slightly puny that day who is now back to normal. I've been trying to get the sick one to take a drop of nutri-drench direct without too much luck, and I rubbed some VetRx under her wings [just a very little bit, on the tips of my fingers].
I'm wondering now if the the sick one is not going to make it. I read something about internal damage from the coccidia that can't be healed? She now looks like she has some white dried poo - very little - around her vent. Does that mean the cocci is backing off?
I got some Corid powder and medicated their water. I don't know what else to do - any advice is appreciated.
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