Can you give Corid AND tetracycline together?

[speckledhen]

I would stop the tetracycline, personally. It is not going to fix cocci and will hurt her intestines further. Get some plain, no sugar, active culture yogurt or other probiotic to give her to soothe the damage, too. A tablespoon a day or so just for her and just let her eat it out of the spoon, if she will.

 

[sheeshshe]

Have you seen chickens have blood for days first before any symptoms? Everything I've read online says cocci goes the other way around. Sick first, then the blood. That is why I started the antibiotics because I thought it must be something else going on. I thought maybe she ate something wrong and it scratched her insides and get infected.

I'm just nervous to stop the antibiotic because we're on a tight schedule before vacation. I really need some convincing argument on how it really is cocci even though she had blood for 3 days before she started looking ill. Please convince me so I can rest in peace with stopping the antibiotic

Oh and THANK YOU so much for chatting with me about this, I really super duper appreciate it!

 

[speckledhen]

Have you seen chickens have blood for days first before any symptoms? Everything I've read online says cocci goes the other way around. Sick first, then the blood. That is why I started the antibiotics because I thought it must be something else going on. I thought maybe she ate something wrong and it scratched her insides and get infected.

I'm just nervous to stop the antibiotic because we're on a tight schedule before vacation. I really need some convincing argument on how it really is cocci even though she had blood for 3 days before she started looking ill. Please convince me so I can rest in peace with stopping the antibiotic

Oh and THANK YOU so much for chatting with me about this, I really super duper appreciate it!

Absolutely, yes, I have. In fact, I have only seen a hunched up chick on one occasion, one that had a particularly bad time with cocci. He survived, but didn't grow to his full potential. In every other case, I saw bloody poop and started treatment. The chicks were acting pretty normally, not cold or sick at all.

 

[sheeshshe]

THANK YOU! thank you thank you. I looked everywhere online and couldn't find anything but it going the other way around. so frustrating!

Any idea what is causing her to have a hard time pooping? is that just how the cocci runs its course?

 

[speckledhen]

Honestly, I can't say for sure why she's having trouble pooping. Could be something else is also going on or cocci has damaged her intestinal tract worse than it would another chick, but you can't always figure this stuff out.

Let me put it this way. I'd treat for cocci because of the age of the chick and the symptoms. If, by some remote chance, it isn't cocci, but something with similar symptoms, you have no way to know what and no way to know a course of treatment. Antibiotics are definitely NOT something I would give with those symptoms. I've never, ever given a chick that age an antibiotic.

If she has something odd going on in there you can't diagnose and that is not even cocci, you may have to resign yourself to losing her, and I hate to say it, but there are times that you cannot fix a bird because you just can't see inside it to know what you're really dealing with. Best course of action is to treat for cocci, give probiotics to soothe the intestinal tract and hope for the best.

 

[sheeshshe]

I think she's going to make it. She's not getting worse, and she is less puffed up. pooping is still a little bit of a challenge, but she seems to be struggling a bit less? maybe? I hope so!!!! she seems to be having more normal looking poops now, but the solid parts are like in a long line and hard, like constipation or something. but at least there are solids in it now! not every time thought, sometimes it is still liquidy.

overall, looking up, I hope!

 

[bigbadwolf38]

Just curious..where can you get Corid? I have a 2 yr old hen that was bleeding from the backside, so I separated her from the flock. I had no idea what was wrong, until I started reading this thread. I'm assuming it's the same thing happening to my bird. HELP!!!

 

[sheeshshe]

I got mine at my local feed store

 

[bigbadwolf38]

Thank You!! Heading there in a few!!!

 

[speckledhen]

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BIG mistake! You never assume stuff like that. A six week old chick is much, much different than a two year old hen who is laying. Coccidiosis, for the most part, is an ailment of the young.

A two year old hen probably doesn't have cocci if she was raised on your soil. Bleeding from the backside sounds like a reproductive issue, not cocci! You are going on the wrong assumption here.