coccidosis help needed

[Taylorbrood]

Oh my, I am so sorry you and your girl are going through this. I know the sleeplessness and panic of having sick flock members. I was just there last weekend when Coccidiosis hit hard and fast and I lost a chick less than a day from showing the first symptom, even though I had started treatment.

So... IF it's Coccidiosis, it's normal for them to be disinterested in food and water. From the stool picture you posted, it's clear she's not been digesting food, which in this case is because she hasn't been eating.
I would STRONGLY advise against ANY nutri-drench right now if you're giving her Corid.

Foamy yellow poop can indicate worms, Coccidiosis, an internal issue, Marek's or a few other things.

Since you've wormed, soaked and nutri-drenched her without improvent, the only remaining thing that you can do right now is treat for Coccidia.

I would recommend a concentrated dose of Corid given orally, with no vitamins. Can you weigh out .5 grams of the Corid powder and then add 5ml of water to it? Draw up 1ml twice a day and syringe it into her beak slowly, giving her time to swallow every few drops. Here's how I arrived at those numbers: The Corid dose for treating severe outbreak is 20mg/kg. Each gram of Corid powder has 200mg of Amprolium. A bird weighing just over 2kg (you said she was 4.5lbs) should have right about 40mg/day. If you can weigh out .5 grams of corid powder, add 5ml water, you now have 100mg of amprolium in that 5ml of solution, so each 1ml has 20mg. If you give her 2 of those a day, she'll get her 40mg for the day.

It sounds like you are doing everything you can to keep this little girl alive until you can get her to the vet. I was just in your place last weekend and know first hand how frustrating and heartwrenching it is to not know what you're up against. I thought I was dealing with necrotic enteritis or possibly e-coli, but treated for coccidiosis just in case. Turns out... It was coccidiosis alone. I was seeing perfectly healthy stool (although a little loose which I attributed to our heatwave) one day and pure blood the next. A lot of coccidiosis cases never see blood at all though. It's diarrhea and/or foamy yelow poop, with lack of interest in food/water, isolation, ruffled feathers

Please keep us updated on what the vet says tomorrow!

Update, she passed away today, and I have another showing signs.

 

[Leihamarie]

Update, she passed away today, and I have another showing signs.

Oh no! I am SOOOOOO sorry! Are you planning on sending her for a necropsy? The county extension usually does them very inexpensively. That's how I learned that my first flock had Marek's.

Were you able to get her into the vet, and if so, what did he/she say?

I am so sorry for your loss!

 

[Leihamarie]

what she has resembles coccidosis, but its respritory, passed through the egg from her parents, waiting for lab conformation on this. vet was surprised she was in as good of condition as she was, and had actually brought me the paperwork for a nercropsy before even seeing her. Guess she has dealt with alot of it lately from what she was saying. She asked what I had done and so I gave her the list. Told her we treated for everything the resemble what she might have just to be on the safe side. She agreed with that philosophy since avian dr.'s are hard to find. she is currently on doxycyline 3 tabs mixed in a liter of water as are the rest of the crew as it is highly contagious and no eggs can be eaten for 37 days. she dropped to 3.5 pounds overnight despite syringing food and med/water in her at 1/2 to 2 cc's every half hour, of course I wore the majority of it. Tonight she showed interest in a piece of pork I was eating so I let her have 6 very small pieces and then she pecked at a few bits of crumbled feed. I will take what I can get at this point. she loves yogurt but the vet said none while on the meds. so we shall keep doing our best and keep praying for her to make it.

Sorry, I hadn't seen this post you wrote about the vet trip before I replied.

The respiratory sounds like a secondary infection. Did the vet do a fecal exam? Were there any bacterial or protazoal results?

Again, I'm so sorry.

 

[Taylorbrood]

Oh no! I am SOOOOOO sorry! Are you planning on sending her for a necropsy? The county extension usually does them very inexpensively. That's how I learned that my first flock had Marek's.

Were you able to get her into the vet, and if so, what did he/she say?

I am so sorry for your loss!

she thinks its Mycoplasma gallisepticum PA, she was surprised she was still alive this morning. have another one in isolation and the rest are inside also. I did send her out, as hard as that was to do, but will give her a headstone rock in the garden. tried my best to keep her alive