chickens after coccidios

[dtc]

i recently purchased some "new" laying hens to add to my flock, and a few days later i noticed a couple of them were sneezing and had bloody diarrahea. with intensive research, i have diagnosed them with Coccidious and infectious bronchitus. I have been treating them with tetracyclene and duramayicin.(which has not worked because they refuse to drink it. Under the direction of a close friend of mine that is a chicken farmer i am now putting a very small, diluted amount of Clorox in their water which is suppost to help kill the Cocci bacteria and stop the diarrahea). they are all starting to show signs of improvement. feed consumption has gone back up, they look more spunky, and are laying again. BUT i cannot get rid of the bronchitus. only 2 of my hens have it and i cannot rid them of it. i have read allot of home remidies, and some of them sound really far fetched. one says to give them saurcraut, another says to give them a brand of iodine called sandadine. No antibiotics i have tried seem to be effective on the bronchitis.

 

[silkiechicken]

Can't help you with IB...

But... Cocci is a PROTOZOA it is NOT a bacteria. A single cell protzoa which lives in all soil as oocysts and reproduces in the digestive tracts of birds. Sulmet or amprol will get rid of cocci in a flash when you follow the directions on the bottle. Commonly available at any feed store.

 

[dtc]

thanks for the advice. If i do get them over the cocci, will they ever be normal again.
will they still have good egg production?
will they still be able to reproduce?
Can i bring home any more chickens in the future?

 

[spamee34]

I had the same problem with my turkeys last summer we lost all but two before figuring out what to do the two that lived were thanksgiving and christmas dinner lol. But what you do is go to your vet or feed store and ask for tylan or anothe antibiotic injection similar to it I think we actually ended up with something generic ( it's for cattle and livestock but turkeys are listed) We gave this to the sick turkey's and the next day they were holding their head up again and so we shot em again the next two days ( that's three days) . We also had two polish chickens that got it too and we gave then 1cc of the injection three days in a row and they too got over it. So try to find this and give 1cc to your birds and they should improve . The medicine you put in the water doesn't seem strong enuf to kill this bronchitis stuff they get.