Coccidiosis outbreak! Need more information on cocci

[FuzzyCritters]

I currently have an outbreak of coccidiosis in my bantam flock. 1 bird has already died and another has a severe infection (he has been separated from the others). All the bantams are on corid treatment. My flock is currently a mix of ages: 4 5+month olds, 1 3.5-month old, 7 9-week olds. The one that died was 3.5 months, and the severely infected one is 9 weeks.

I have a few questions about cocci:
1. Are bantams more at risk to cocci? If yes, are the smaller bantam breeds even more at risk?
2. Since coccia live in the ground, will moving them into the barn help prevent them from ingesting coccia? Or will moving them to a different location outside be better?
3. How long do coccia live inside the gut? How long do they live when they are just in the ground?
4. Is there anything else I can do for my bantams besides corid treatment?
5. How can I help my very sick one? He seems to be getting worse. He is currently on corid like the rest of the bantams.

Thank you for taking the time to read through the post.

 

[Blw18]

I’m so sorry to hear about your flock. I just had a coccidiosis outbreak in my liege fighter 6 week olds. I lost 4 before I could even get Corid. Once I began treating with it, it seemed to help some but have no effect on the badly sick ones. One chick, my only solid blue, has been sick from the beginning. He isn’t eating and had stopped drinking maybe a week ago and lost a massive amount of weight. He’s still hanging in there. I’ve been making a mixture of ground up gamebird feed, cultured buttermilk, Gatorade (for electrolytes and sugars), a little bit of Corid, and an egg yolk and syringe feeding him and two more of the others the mixture once or twice a day depending on if their crop is still full. I’m sure other stuff would work just as good but this is high protein, high fat food that hydrates too. Starvation and dehydration is the reason they die so quickly and I’m 10000% sure the blue chick would have died a week ago if I hadn’t been doing this. This might work for your badly sick one. I don’t think size plays a factor in this because liege are highly susceptible and they get 12+ pounds. Genetics plays a huge part of it. As for moving them to your barn, I have no idea on that. I did get mine off the ground and into a stall in the barn for now but they’re getting too big for that. Coccidiosis is present in 98% of all chickens but only when a new strain gets in, we get all these problems. I’m not sure how long they remain sick from it because I’ve been lucky and this is the first time I’ve ever had to treat for it in 18 or so years.