Cocci massacre! help please!!

[peachychick]

yesterday a couple of chicks had the droopsies and I noticed 2 bloody stools. Today the whole gang is hunched up and cheeping like crazy.
We started corid yesterday in the water, but I am hoping someone has some suggestions for more immediate relief

. Would it help to feed buttermilk or yogurt? We'd have to force feed it at this point, but it might be worth a shot. These are our LSU marans so we would try anything to save them.
The chicks are about 6 weeks old, fed medicated feed, ACV in the water and they've been on the ground in this pen about a week.
For future reference, can the ground be treated for cocci? thanks you all.

 

[tnchickenut]

I have no scientific proof of this, but I had Cocci three times in three different clutches.... each time this helped.

Electrolites. The same vitamin/electrolite mix they suggest to put in chicks water after they been shipped.

The first time I had a case, I thought..."when a child gets runny stool... they give electrolites" so I did for some relief for the bird. It perked up.

It does not CURE the Cocci... but it does seem to "perk" them up and stimulate their appetite, which is good for healing.

Good luck!

 

[tnchickenut]

Oh and Cocci is everywhere naturally... you can't avoid it. Once your bird builds up a immunity... it is immune for life. In the meantime, your job is to keep them alive to make it that long.

I have read from vet's articles that subjecting chicks to the ground outside young as possible helps build a immunity better.

 

[purecountrychicken]

I always give my chicks yogurt every week for about 2 months and I never have a problem.

 

[usschicago1]

This should help alot
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex4616

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/33/coccidiosis-caecal-e-tenella

Good Luck
Mark

 

[usschicago1]

I would read this thread close also. I hear about using sulmet alot with cocci, so i would go with that.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=42079&p=1

 

[PunkinPeep]

Milk products are helpful at this point because they cause a mucous buildup that helps coat the intestines to provide relief.

When your chickens go through this and then recover they will be resistant to coccidiosis, but keep in mind that coccidiosis has something like nine strains. They will be resistant to what is in your soil, which could be only one or any combination.

Corid or liquid Amprolium treats all nine forms of the cocci protozoa. Sulmet only treats a few, and it is known to be a little harder on the chick's body than amprolium, so if you can get, in my opinion, Corid is the way to go.

If they are not eating, you might also try egg yolks or mixing the yogurt with their feed to get them to eat it. Most of all, make sure they drink that Corid water. That is what can give them relief.

 

[pips&peeps]

Stay away from giving them vitamins until they are well and you are finished treating with amprolium. Amprolium blocks vitamin K absorbtion in the oocytes and thus kills them. When adding additional vitamin K you defeat the purpose of the drug.