California - Northern

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

I sent an email to CAHFS at UCD about Fecal Float testing. I am going to get a sample in there tomorrow.

Hi Ron,
The sooner you can refrigerate the samples after collection the better preserved any parasite eggs will be in the samples. Keep the samples cool but not frozen (freezing destroys the eggs) until you can get them to the lab. We ideally like the samples to arrive at the lab within 24 hours of collection and the standard submission form works best.
Coccidia testing isn’t as accurate in poultry as it is in mammals but with a 10g sample hopefully we can identify them if they are being shed.
Take care.

Kris A. Clothier, DVM PhD DACVM
Bacteriology Discipline Head
California Animal Health and Food Safety Lab System
University of California, Davis
West Health Sciences Drive
Davis, CA 95616
530-752-8754
[email protected]

Great Fun! Going to collect poo tomorrow.....

I didn't know they did fecal testing! For goats too? Do you have a web link for prices and procedure? Thanks!

 

[ronott1]

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Yes! It is CAHFS.ucdavis.edu They have a bunch of Tests with different prices. The Fecal test is $10.50. I am not going to worm unless the test says I need to.

Ron

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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I would definitely deworm, de-mite AND treat for cocci. Whenever I have EVER had a sick chicken it has always ended up being one of these three things. When my first batches of chicks started getting cocci the only thing I found that would cure them was to make a strong corid water solution and tube feed it to them. Before I started tube feeding I would lose every baby that started puffing up. Tube feeding is REALLY easy, if your having cocci problems I highly recommend it! They usually don't get it after about 5 months old though, I haven't had any adults get it.

If you do those three things and there is STILL no improvement you can do a round of antibiotics.

If all that fails, the chicken may not make it and the best thing to do would be after it passes away is to send it in for a necropsy to see why it died, it's free you just have to pay to ship it. That way if you know what it is if any of your other birds get it you will know how to treat them.

 

[ronott1]

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I would definitely deworm, de-mite AND treat for cocci. Whenever I have EVER had a sick chicken it has always ended up being one of these three things. When my first batches of chicks started getting cocci the only thing I found that would cure them was to make a strong corid water solution and tube feed it to them. Before I started tube feeding I would lose every baby that started puffing up. Tube feeding is REALLY easy, if your having cocci problems I highly recommend it! They usually don't get it after about 5 months old though, I haven't had any adults get it.

If you do those three things and there is STILL no improvement you can do a round of antibiotics.

If all that fails, the chicken may not make it and the best thing to do would be after it passes away is to send it in for a necropsy to see why it died, it's free you just have to pay to ship it. That way if you know what it is if any of your other birds get it you will know how to treat them.
I agree. It is probably time to stop the corid and use a wormer. I would also dust her for mites(with poultry dust and not DE either). It seems like everyone is using Valbazen.

Dawg53 says not to use more than one medicine at a time. It can be too much for a sick chicken to handle.

I hope she gets better soon!

 

[lawatt]

I agree. It is probably time to stop the corid and use a wormer. I would also dust her for mites(with poultry dust and not DE either). It seems like everyone is using Valbazen.

Dawg53 says not to use more than one medicine at a time. It can be too much for a sick chicken to handle.

I hope she gets better soon!

i'm going to give her another day or so on Corid, since she *has* improved a smidge with it, from where she was a few days ago, and i haven't been "making" her drink, so who knows how much has actually gotten into her. rather try another day or two, than switch midstream.

at least she's in the house and warm -- supposedly tonight will be our last below-freezing one, then things will warm up a bit...?

 

[liz9910]

i'm going to give her another day or so on Corid, since she *has* improved a smidge with it, from where she was a few days ago, and i haven't been "making" her drink, so who knows how much has actually gotten into her.  rather try another day or two, than switch midstream.

at least she's in the house and warm -- supposedly tonight will be our last below-freezing one, then things will warm up a bit...?

I hope she feels better soon poor girl.

 

[juststruttin]

Nice trailer, what a great idea. Are you going to leave it mobile so you can move it around?

Yes, that is the plan.

Deann love the coop idea.
I like the chicks already.
The ground was frozen about 8"

Thanks. I have been looking for an old chasse and was planning to build a coop on that. I was stoked when I found this one because all I need to do is install a door, ventilation and repair the leaky roof. The woman who owned it sold 501 Levis at the Marin City Flee market for 40 years. It was built in the 60s and is in surprisingly good condition.

 

[lawatt]

OK, i've discovered that if I'm sitting down with the chicken between my knees, and with great persistence, i CAN manage to get her beak open -- dripped the corid-water in very slowly, and she did swallow, so some is definitely inside her now. will give her some more before i have to leave for school this morning.

when i first came in she was lying on her side, & i was afraid she'd passed -- but still breathing, so i put her back on her feet and she's back to standing quietly with her eyes closed. it seems like she might be near her limit, so either the corid will help, or it won't... doubt i'll be able to get the recommended goat wormer quickly enough for it to help, but i'll get it for the rest of the gang.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I would trust anything Dawg says - he is extremely knowledgeable.


Ron - Poo in my fridge.

Not exactly what I'm looking for.

 

[OR4-hmom]

What's your outside temp? Icechest on the porch maybe.