sarachristie
Hatching
- Jul 3, 2023
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Please help, my poor speckled sussex was ill when I came out this morning. She had a ton of bloody poop beneath her roost, and it was splattered on the wall of the coop and on one of her flockmates. Blood everywhere. There was no red left in her face, she is super pale. She let me catch her easily, she usually has a lot of spunk and makes me chase her. She has also been panting all day. Because of all the blood I immediately started her and the others on Corrid. She continued to produce bloody stool on my lap while I gave her water/corrid. She has showed little improvement, hasn't eaten all day and has just been laying around panting when I don't have her on my lap syringing her water/corrid mixture. She did go up her ramp and roost by herself tonight -so I'm holding out hope she can recover.
What I don't understand is I don't see panting/hoarse sounding voice anywhere as Coccidisis symptoms - I'm worried I'm missing something.
1) Speckled Sussex around 17 weeks old, is not laying yet. She has always been smaller than my other four, can't tell if she has lost weight.
2) This morning I discover A LOT of bloody stool under where she had roosted all night. She was in the run, but looking extremely pale in the face, and moving slowly and acting very tired like. Also panting and sounded hoarse.
3) She was fine yesterday and her stool was normal yesterday.
4) So far no one else has symptoms - she is with 3 other hens.
5) No signs of trauma, but a lot of bloody stool over night - which continued throughout the day.
6) The only thing I can think of is we replaced the sand in the coop a week ago and it was a little damp, but I didn't think much of it ---- now I'm concerned I provided a damp place for coccidisis to take root.
7) She did not eat today, shes been on starter/grower. I gave her water with corrid by hand with a syringe today.
8) Poop looks like blood and raspberry perserves -- we haven't given them berries and there aren't any growing in our yard.
9) I started my flock on Corrid today - 2 tsps in a gallon of water.
10) I called vets today, I cannot find one that will see her, so I'm on my own.
11) Our coop has sand on the bottom. I clean it everyday at most, every other day when I'm slacking. The run is also sand, I rake this out once every two weeks. They spend as much time as possible grazing outside the run in my small yard.
Images of the poop under her roost, her yesterday (photo with the red chair) vs. her today (photo behind cage -- looking very pale.)
What I don't understand is I don't see panting/hoarse sounding voice anywhere as Coccidisis symptoms - I'm worried I'm missing something.
1) Speckled Sussex around 17 weeks old, is not laying yet. She has always been smaller than my other four, can't tell if she has lost weight.
2) This morning I discover A LOT of bloody stool under where she had roosted all night. She was in the run, but looking extremely pale in the face, and moving slowly and acting very tired like. Also panting and sounded hoarse.
3) She was fine yesterday and her stool was normal yesterday.
4) So far no one else has symptoms - she is with 3 other hens.
5) No signs of trauma, but a lot of bloody stool over night - which continued throughout the day.
6) The only thing I can think of is we replaced the sand in the coop a week ago and it was a little damp, but I didn't think much of it ---- now I'm concerned I provided a damp place for coccidisis to take root.
7) She did not eat today, shes been on starter/grower. I gave her water with corrid by hand with a syringe today.
8) Poop looks like blood and raspberry perserves -- we haven't given them berries and there aren't any growing in our yard.
9) I started my flock on Corrid today - 2 tsps in a gallon of water.
10) I called vets today, I cannot find one that will see her, so I'm on my own.
11) Our coop has sand on the bottom. I clean it everyday at most, every other day when I'm slacking. The run is also sand, I rake this out once every two weeks. They spend as much time as possible grazing outside the run in my small yard.
Images of the poop under her roost, her yesterday (photo with the red chair) vs. her today (photo behind cage -- looking very pale.)
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