California - Northern

[caychris]

Poop is one of the best diagnostic tools... I'd separate him and see what his poop looks like.

-Kathy

I think there needs to be a visual diagnostics book dedicated just to this

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[Chickengirl1304]

Can you post a picture of it? Some of my hens have black combs, so maybe it's normal?

-Kathy

He is almost dead, not normal

 

[EZFarms]

Its dry and been stepped in but its like blue green

and this is the "normal" poo
i feed them fermented layer feed and veggue leftovers

 

[SilkiesForEver]

I check both coops, and the poop isn't abnormal.... what I do find abnormal is the amount of sick chickens that have been posted about today..

I mean, what's up with that?

The second chick just died. It was acting zombie-like, then I watched it spasm and die. I really don't understand this. I feed my chicks medicated feed (which is supposed to help), they always have clean water, and have lots of space to roam.

 

[SilkiesForEver]

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I agree! That'd be something I would buy!

 

[ronott1]

I check both coops, and the poop isn't abnormal.... what I do find abnormal is the amount of sick chickens that have been posted about today..

I mean, what's up with that?

The second chick just died. It was acting zombie-like, then I watched it spasm and die. I really don't understand this. I feed my chicks medicated feed (which is supposed to help), they always have clean water, and have lots of space to roam.

I am so sorry!

Medicated feed will not protect them from a sudden load of cocci.

Kathy has the best instructions for treating--Corid and the concentrated form is needed ASAP for the sickest ones.

Arielle posted on the Processing thread that she lost 20 chicks one time before she figured out how to use Corid.

Send the dead one in for a Necropsy. There is a link on it in Kathy's signature.

 

[liz9910]

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I'm wondering what is wrong also, these are the same symptoms that my Serama rooster had.

 

[ronott1]

Quote: The Body shuts down so the comb loses blood.

A lot of things can cause it.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

The Body shuts down so the comb loses blood.

A lot of things can cause it.

he is shaking his head. Will mites/lice cause death?

 

[caychris]

he is shaking his head. Will mites/lice cause death?

can carry other diseases or weaken immune system so that something else does.