coccidiosis issues.

[Growingthehome]

So these are my first babies and every symptom points to this but I have been treating them for two and a half weeks now and all of them have been seeming fine. I got new chicks three days ago (have not introduced them to the flock yet and are keeping far apart) but now they have it too? And the older girls seem completely normal now but today one just laid down and started giving up on life. I don't understand. They have no symptoms now and normal stool. And where fine yesterday. Could it be something else. I tried searching to see what else it it could be but the internet keeps coming up with coccidiosis over and over.

 

[Kiki]

What are you using to treat the coccidiosis?

 

[azygous]

How old are the chicks, both older and younger groups? What have they been eating? Have you been providing chick grit?

 

[Growingthehome]

How old are the chicks, both older and younger groups? What have they been eating? Have you been providing chick grit?

The older ones are 2 1/2 months old and the little ones are three weeks. I give them organic grower freed and allow the older ones to forage from 9am to about 7pm on top of providing them feed in the coop if they want it. I let the little ones forage in a movable cover for about two hours a day and they get chick starter organic feed also. They all get grit mixed in with feed. Once a week they all get a home mix of meal worms, chia seed, dried fruit, cornmeal, oats, nutritional yeast, and herbs from the garden.

 

[Growingthehome]

She passed away yesterday. She was sneezing and started coughing blood but had no bloody stool, no mouth sores, no signs of parasites in her throat, no black marks on her waddle or comb, no yellow or lesions in her mouth, no bubbles or discharge. I'm shook.

 

[Growingthehome]

She passed away yesterday. She was sneezing and started coughing blood but had no bloody stool, no mouth sores, no signs of parasites in her throat, no black marks on her waddle or comb, no yellow or lesions in her mouth, no bubbles or discharge. I'm shook.

 

[alexisrambles]

Could this have been a respiratory infection? I read on another thread that sneezing along with lethargy could signal that.

 

[azygous]

Are you using Corid to treat these chicks? You should be treating them all, even the new ones if they've been on the soil at some point. The symptoms of the dead chick could be coccidiosis. There isn't necessarily blood in the stools, but the mucous lining of the intestines could have caused the chick to cough up blood.

It could be a respiratory infection and it doesn't hurt to treat for both. But while you can treat all the chicks with Corid, only symptomatic chicks should be treated with Tylan.

 

[alexisrambles]

That's a good point about Corid. I forgot that coccidiosis can be largely asymptomatic. Have you heard anything about not wanting to use Corid on a chick more than once? I've read several threads that recommend retreating until the chicks are healed.

 

[azygous]

Conventional treatment with Corid is five days, then wait seven days and treat again for five more.