Can baby chicks have worms? (Picture)

[ColoBecky]

Thanks everyone. The chicks are acting normally, eating, drinking, and growing every day, so I don't think they are really sick, just the weird poop! But I'm treating with Corid just in case. Hopefully they'll be back to normal soon.

 

[Michael Apple]

It is not uncommon for some intestinal lining to be shed as chicks are growing. Those pics showed a good amount though. Most folks use Corid powder when the chicks reach 3 weeks of age. I use Probios in the water at the same time I use Avian Super Pack (three days a week). If the chicks are otherwise acting normal and eating well you could try that. Perhaps I'm just being overly concerned, but I lost an 8 day old cockerel this afternoon, so I began using Corid for the lot of them. I found him gasping, fresh pasty urates near the vent, and didn't take long to convulse then die. I'm glad you chicks are doing well.

 

[RoseMarie1]

It is not uncommon for some intestinal lining to be shed as chicks are growing. Those pics showed a good amount though. Most folks use Corid powder when the chicks reach 3 weeks of age. I use Probios in the water at the same time I use Avian Super Pack (three days a week). If the chicks are otherwise acting normal and eating well you could try that. Perhaps I'm just being overly concerned, but I lost an 8 day old cockerel this afternoon, so I began using Corid for the lot of them. I found him gasping, fresh pasty urates near the vent, and didn't take long to convulse then die. I'm glad you chicks are doing well.

man I am so sorry! That's horrible. I lost one of my rir's this evening. Had given them some fresh grass I had just cut and they have grit to eat and don't have a clue what happened but it made me sick. After that I got all the grass out just in case it was that. All of them were acting normal because I had JUST been out there feeding them and watering them and scooping out the poop. I've been back and forth out there checking the others all evening and just checked again awhile ago and they're all fine. BUT am worried and hoping I don't lose anymore.

 

[Michael Apple]

man I am so sorry! That's horrible. I lost one of my rir's this evening. Had given them some fresh grass I had just cut and they have grit to eat and don't have a clue what happened but it made me sick. After that I got all the grass out just in case it was that. All of them were acting normal because I had JUST been out there feeding them and watering them and scooping out the poop. I've been back and forth out there checking the others all evening and just checked again awhile ago and they're all fine. BUT am worried and hoping I don't lose anymore.

Thanks. A fact often overlooked about Coccidiosis is that it can be airborne. 1 out of 15 wasn't too bad. though I prefer 0 mortality. They are all 10 weeks and healthy. That was the earliest I've ever started chicks on a preventative dose of Corid.

 

[realsis]

can you update? how are your chicks now? hope they are better.

 

[ten chicks]

First..most week old chicks do not get cocci unless you have a bad case with the rest of your birds. Cocci has a distinct odor. It is really unpleasant. Than you will see blood in poop. I do not see blood in this poop at all. That looks like normal internal sluff off from a new chick starting to process larger amounts of solid foods. Not quite solid and not quite liquid and not quite fully processed.

If your chick is in a clean environment with no contact with adult dropping, the chances of cocci is remote. If the chick is acting normal, eating normal, drinking normal. I would add a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to your electrolytes in your 1/2 gallon of water and offer that for liquid.

You can give your chick a natural resistance to cocci just like a mom does and introduce a small amount to the chick. Some do it by bringing a handful of litter from the coop into the brooder weekly. Other dig a plug of grass from the run and put that in the brooder. Good luck with your chick!!

First, some week old chicks do get cocci. I have personally never detected ANY odor with cocci. Apple cider vinegar does NOTHING for cocci,and Colobecky should be made aware of the danger of cocci if left untreated,usually death. This does not look like normal droppings,cocci may be been contracted before Colobecky brought chicks home,there is a incubation period i believe of 4-7 days with cocci. Chances of cocci may be remote,but not impossible.

 

[ColoBecky]

can you update? how are your chicks now? hope they are better.

As far as I can tell, the chicks that had this weird poop are all perfectly healthy. Still don't know what that was all about. I treated with Corid as a precaution, but I don't really think they were sick. They are 9-10 weeks now, recently moved out to the coop and doing great.

 

[Shanejlll]

I have seen the same thing in my Rhode Island Reds that are 2 weeks old. One died on us last night. I just saw some more of the same kind of poop, so I'm guessing that another one must have the same thing, but I don't know which bird it is. We figured out last night that the one who died this morning was sick, so we isolated it, but we couldn't tell that it was sick before last night, except that occasionally we would see 1 drop of blood on their feeder. That was the only sign of anything being wrong before last night. We are going to try to get some Corid the day after tomorrow, hopefully it's not too late!

 

[casportpony]

Coccidiosis kills young chicks very fast.

-Kathy

 

[delisha]

Quote: ACV is great for the intestines. It allows more nutrition uptake to stay with the chickens. It is good to use for summer heat. To say it does nothing is incorrect. Cocci is in every chicken. it is how it is handled and how well the environment and immunities are at time of exposure. Building a resistance to cocci makes for healthier birds. There are more than one way to raise birds. The fecal matter looks normal to me and fits in a normal scope of the 35 years of chicken poop I have observed in my lifetime. I have learned there are different types of cocci. The type of cocci that most young chicks are exposed to the first time is the kind that will leave blood in the stools. Rarely are week old chickens infected with cocci, because they have immunities from the mother. Perhaps this link might help. It is great educational material about cocci. it will help clarify all the misconception about chicks and poop and who gets it and what age. What happens in the intestines and what you can do to prevent cocci from harming your flock. Living with cocci and keeping chickens healthy is what we all want. No one said it was impossible. Nothing is impossible. Filthy conditions loaded with previously dead birds infected with cocci might give a week old chick cocci.

http://www.thecozynest.com/understanding_coccidiosis.htm