Coccidiosis Treatment

[Wyorp Rock]

I went ahead and stopped the Corid yesterday, it was day 6. I was going to do 7 days since I under medicated the first day and a half but after this I felt I needed to stop so I could start getting vitamins back in them. I'm scared to deworm them so close to using Corid.
I bought the fenbendazole liquid for goats but now thinking I want to do the fenbendazole aqua-sol so its not so much at once.

1) is it safe for me to order the fenbendazole aqua-sol and wait until it comes in to worm them, or is this an ASAP kind of thing?
2) Can I add poultry cell with the dewormer in their water?

It's up to you whether or not you want to buy expensive Aqua Sol. It's still Fenbendazole, just a different solution that is meant to go into water and will treat Roundworms Only at the dose they recommend.

If you are finding expelled roundworms, then at least one hen likely has an overload.

Personally, I'd just go ahead and treat each bird with the Safeguard liquid goat dewormer if that's what is on hand. It's much more economical to use.

There're no contraindications with using Corid and Fenbendazole together, so imho, there's no need to do a waiting period between the two.

Poultry cell can be added to the drinking water for a couple of days if you are worried that the Corid made them deficient, but it's extremely unlikely it did.

 

[AMURPHY227]

It's up to you whether or not you want to buy expensive Aqua Sol. It's still Fenbendazole, just a different solution that is meant to go into water and will treat Roundworms Only at the dose they recommend.

If you are finding expelled roundworms, then at least one hen likely has an overload.

Personally, I'd just go ahead and treat each bird with the Safeguard liquid goat dewormer if that's what is on hand. It's much more economical to use.

There're no contraindications with using Corid and Fenbendazole together, so imho, there's no need to do a waiting period between the two.

Poultry cell can be added to the drinking water for a couple of days if you are worried that the Corid made them deficient, but it's extremely unlikely it did.

I will deworm them today.

Thank you, you've been a tremendous help, and it is VERY appreciated!!

 

[Aoife123]

Hi everyone, I'm just finished treating a hen for coccidiosis with corid and I'm wondering if it's normal for the hen to still be lethargic and not eating a whole lot after treatment.

I have an ex commercial hen that was lethargic and so I started her on antibiotics as usually with ex commercial the problem is usually a reproductive infection of some sort.

She responded to the antibiotics but I took her to the vet anyway as I was taking another hen for something else anyway.

The vet thought she might have sour crop as I mentioned the crop emptying slowly and the stinky poo and the poo is very wet. She prescribed nystatin anti fungal and said to finish outvthe course of antibiotics anyway.

A day or 2 after the antibiotic had finish she started to decline again and there was some lash egg in her cage.

I assumed it must be a reproductive infection since she responded to the antibiotic and the presence of lash egg material. The vet was in agreement and she prescribed a higher dose of antibiotic for a week. This did nothing for the hen at all.

I decided to worm her in hopes that could be the problem but I knew I had only wormed the whole flock a few months before.

I went on holiday dor a week and I had to leave her with a family member to look after and hoped she would still be alive when I came home. When I returned I noticed her head was very pale and there was blood I'm her poo in the cage.

Immediately I thought coccidiosis as she was showing all the other symptoms all along but didn't have blood in the poo until now so I have treated her with corid for 7 days. Although she had perked up since starting treatment she still isn't 100% she got some colour back in her head but still a bit pale, she is eating a bit now where she wasn't eating anything before I started her on the corid. She's chatty now which Is a good sign and she's is mad to get outside pecking and scratching buy after a while she standing puffed up with the tail down again.

I think I seen some lash egg in her poo a 2 days ago buy I'm not sure it got covered by straw and I couldn't find it to examine when I was cleaning her cage.

I am going to give her a poultry boost now after finishing the corid but I had hoped that this was the problem all along and she would be back to herself after the treatment.

She had some pellets and she devoured a slice of roast beef I gave her yesterday evening and the crop was empty this morning which is a great sign. Lots of poo in the cage this morning not as wet as usual but still brown and very stinky. Blood has not being seen since the corid treatment was started.

I'm unsure where to go from here. She is very thin and has been sick for about a month now. Do I need to give her time to recover after the coccidiosis or is the fact that she's not 100% after treatment mean that something else is going on.


I know it's unlikely for a adult hen to get coccidiosis but I read that a hen who's immune system is compromised can get sick from coccidiosis. I have had a viral infection going through my flock all over winter and this hen was very down with it and I was monitoring her to check she was eating throughout as I notices she was quite. I believe that the viral infection was enough to allow her to become sick from coccidiosis.

Any tips would be great. I can get a vet to do a fecal for me but the vet is about 2 hours away. Is a fecal my next step? Is there any other tests that can be carried out. Keep in mind I am in Ireland and there is very little expertise on chickens so I'm limited in veterinary knowledge.

This is the poo I found before I started treating for coccidiosis. Do you think I was right in thinking coccidiosis.