Can baby chicks have worms? (Picture)

[drumstick diva]

 

[casportpony]

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

Not true... I've had young chicks, about a week old get cocci and their brooder/enclosures were new!

-Kathy

 

[ten chicks]

Not true... I've had young chicks, about a week old, get cocci, and their brooder/enclosures were new!

-Kathy

Absolutely agree with you Kathy.

 

[Shanejlll]

this is a picture, if the picture actually comes up of a fresh poop from one of my 3 week old chicks. I lost one, I'm pretty sure to coccidiosis. So, they are all on Corid right now, on day 3. Does anyone have any words of wisdom for me? None of them look sickly in any way. It kind of looks like worms from the pic, but that's just the shavings, btw.

 

[casportpony]

this is a picture, if the picture actually comes up of a fresh poop from one of my 3 week old chicks. I lost one, I'm pretty sure to coccidiosis. So, they are all on Corid right now, on day 3. Does anyone have any words of wisdom for me? None of them look sickly in any way. It kind of looks like worms from the pic, but that's just the shavings, btw.

If they were mine I would weigh each one on a digital kitchen scale and check them every couple of days for weight loss or gain. Young chicks should make daily weight gains, so it will be pretty easy to tell if the Corid is working.

-Kathy

 

[delisha]

Quote: I am sorry for your losses. It is horrible to loose young chicks to death. The expense of having all the tests done is stressful also. Perhaps you should check your adult birds if you are having so many experiences with cocci deaths in week old chicks. It sounds like your adult immunities could/might be compromised. Young chicks under a week old should not die of cocci with resistance and immunities from the mother. There are many great bird vets that can help point you in the right direction and help you with all of your young chick deaths. Perhaps they can give you suggestions to help you avoid the deaths and build immunities. There are a great many web sites that give other ideas on health care and how to have a healthy vital flock.

I wish you luck and hope you have a healthy flock soon. Here is another web site that can help point you in the right direction for building immunities.

http://skeffling.hubpages.com/hub/C...lium-amprol-sulmet-Sulfamethazine-corid-cocci