Cocci-Rid Powder for treating coccidiosis - PLEASE HELP!

[stoutfamily]

I'm nearly certain that my hen has coccidiosis. She is our only hen and has been lethargic with bloody stools. I saw on here to use amprolium to treat her and so I went to the feed stores in the area to look for it. All I could find is the Cocci-Rid powder (2.50% amprolium) made by Thomas Labs. The instructions say to mix 1 tsp per pound of feed but my hen is barely eating, but does drink quite a bit of water. I've been looking all over the internet for how to mix with water but haven't found anything too useful yet. She's really sick and I'm hoping to start the medication ASAP so any help would be really appreciated!!!

Thank you!

 

[chickenzoo]

I would sprinkle a small amount on some wet feed or on top of scrambled eggs, mix it in and try and feed her some. I have used it but like the Corid better.

 

[speckledhen]

If she is very thin, it can also be a bad case of worms. Most adult hens are already immune to the oocysts in their soil, though they can get it if someone walks in a different type on their shoes than the hen is immune to (there are 9 types). Cocci Rid won't hurt her, but you can put Corid liquid right in her water, much easier if she is drinking but not eating.

 

[stoutfamily]

Thanks! I mixed some with regular feed but she hasn't touched it so I will try the eggs. I'll keep looking for Corid but I've tried the two closest feed stores already.
She's a pretty big girl until the past couple days when she's been sick, so it probably isn't worms. We have tons of pigeons and otherbirds flying in an out of our yard so I was thinking she couldve gotten it from one of them.

 

[stoutfamily]

She passed away tonight. Poor thing. At least she is no longer suffering.

Now I've got 6 week old baby chicks to worry about. I just want to make sure these little ones don't get it too. They didn't have much contact with my hen, but they do go outside for a couple hours a day. The hen was only outside for a day or so of being sick before I moved her in.

Should the normal dosing for the Cocci-Rid (2.5% amprilium, 1 tsp per pound of food) be okay for them? I know regular Corid is 20% and this is much less potent.

 

[tia]

Sorry for your loss.

 

[gryeyes]

I am so sorry for your loss. About a month or so ago I lost 10 young birds FAST, plus a couple more within a week.

I ALWAYS feed medicated chick starter but I got stupid with a batch of 33 chicks kept in a ginormous brooder longer than I should have kept them there, but their housing wasn't ready at the right time. At 9 weeks I changed their feed to grower/finisher WHILE THEY WERE STILL IN THE BROODER. Then I put them out into grow-out coop & run for two weeks, then let them mingle with the flock.

They should have had the medicated feed while they were "on the ground" so the Amprolium would have helped them resist the coccidia. SO, so stupid of me.

I treated the entire flock with Corrid-V for seven days, or I'm sure I would have lost more of them. I keep it handy, now, just in case.

 

[speckledhen]

Medicated feed it no guarantee against cocci and neither is keeping the brooder clean. If you have tons of it in your soil, they can get it when they are out of the brooder. Also, a crowded brooder with mixed age chicks, especially, can be trouble with coccidiosis.

The chicks raised by a broody never get it because they are usually on the ground much sooner and they also pick at mom's poop-she being immune already may be a sort of inoculation against it.

I don't recall the dosing on the Cocci Rid powder. Corid 9.6% solution is what I keep here for outbreaks.