ASAP: Can you put antibiotics in water with Corid?

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I think I have a coccidiosis problem with my young peachicks. I lost my Cameo peachick this morning and my other young ones are all fluffed up. My question is can I put anything else in the water with Corid? Antibiotics, Poultry electrolytes? Will this make the water taste bad to them and make them not want to drink at all? If we should only do injectable antibiotics: these birds are under one pound and I don't know where to give the shot of what. Please help!

 

[DobieLover]

I think I have a coccidiosis problem with my young peachicks. I lost my Cameo peachick this morning and my other young ones are all fluffed up. My question is can I put anything else in the water with Corid? Antibiotics, Poultry electrolytes? Will this make the water taste bad to them and make them not want to drink at all? If we should only do injectable antibiotics: these birds are under one pound and I don't know where to give the shot of what. Please help!

Sorry you lost a chick.
You don't need antibiotics to clear coccidiosis. You need a coccidistat and you have one with the amprolium in the Corid.
How are you diluting it?

 

[EggSighted4Life]

What are you treating with antibitoics?

Electrolyte mixes often have vitamins in them, which should be avoided during treatment with Corid as it works by mimicking thiamine to slow the growth and starve out the coccidia.

Sometimes coccidiosis is treated with a sulfa antibiotic instead of amprolium but not sure if they are used together.

Sorry for your loss. How old was the peachick that you lost?

Are you using the severe outbreak dosage of Corid? If the ones that are puffed up aren't actively drinking then you may need to direct dose them.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I saw the dosage post thread so I am giving 2 teaspoons of liquid corid to 1 gallon of water. I've taken away all other sources of water and I saw them drinking it. It was almost 7 weeks old. The day before I lost a black shoulder hen who was a little over 8 weeks.

 

[casportpony]

Very sorry for your losses.
You can give the Corid orally too, and that should help if they aren't drinking enough.

Do you know how much they weigh?
Can you post some pictures of their poop?
What antibiotics do you have?
Have they been in a brooder or on dirt?


And lastly, would you consider doing a necropsy on the one that died today? If it had coccidiosis it should be pretty easy to verify.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

My husband and I did a bird autopsy yesterday on the black shoulder. That bird didn't even seem sick. We opened the bird and gizzard had grit and smashed food. Heart and liver looked healthy normal. Crop had some food in it, normal. We opened up the intestines and in one spot some puffiness, normal brown bile. It was 85' yesterday and we wondered if it was just from bloat. No cuts or abrasion, we concluded that maybe it just flew into side of pen and got brained?

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

We didn't have time to do chick today. Yes they are in a dirt and rock floor fly pen. This chick was really weak the others aren't fluffed up right now and running around. We have antibiotics you can mix in water and LA 200 injectable. We haven't given them any of the antibiotics yet and we started the Corid yesterday at noon.

 

[casportpony]

We have antibiotics you can mix in water

What kind?

 

[casportpony]

we started the Corid yesterday at noon

You might want to give each one drop orally per 100 grams and do this once or twice a day for 1-3 days.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

It's repacked in a Ziploc from the vet it says Protet.