- Apr 13, 2011
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This morning, as my DH and I were watching the 5-week old chicks, my heart just about stopped when my Wyandotte made a dropping that looked like clear water with blood in it--a few beads of ruby-red blood clots. The next poop she made was also diarrhea-like and contained blood.
I separated her and monitored her for her next droppings, and the next 2 were completely normal--firm, greenish-brown with white urate.
My question is, can I rule out cocci because of the normal droppings? Or was the bloody dropping cecal and a symptom of cocci that manifests in the cecum?
There are really no other symptoms in the flock--all are active, eating and drinking.
I give them kefir or yogurt every morning with some mashed fig, and they get ACV in their water.
They are on medicated feed--I know that this does not gurantee that they won't develop cocci.
Should I start them on Sulmet? Wait and see? I'm definitely keeping an eye on them...LOL they've been my obsession since they came into my care!
I've seen the poop chart, but I think the blood was definitely darker than what was described as shed lining-that's what worries me.
I separated her and monitored her for her next droppings, and the next 2 were completely normal--firm, greenish-brown with white urate.
My question is, can I rule out cocci because of the normal droppings? Or was the bloody dropping cecal and a symptom of cocci that manifests in the cecum?
There are really no other symptoms in the flock--all are active, eating and drinking.
I give them kefir or yogurt every morning with some mashed fig, and they get ACV in their water.
They are on medicated feed--I know that this does not gurantee that they won't develop cocci.
Should I start them on Sulmet? Wait and see? I'm definitely keeping an eye on them...LOL they've been my obsession since they came into my care!
I've seen the poop chart, but I think the blood was definitely darker than what was described as shed lining-that's what worries me.