Cocidiodsis????

[ten chicks]

Yes of course I know what it is. Its a parasitic disease and that information is correct. To treat you use the correct wormer which will contain anticoccidials however treatment must be very quick after the outburst has begun

You use a coccidiostat such as amprolium,sulmet,etc,they are not called wormers.

 

[maxpedley]

They often come in a wormer though

 

[ten chicks]

They often come in a wormer though

No

 

[Eggcessive]

Hello, I am only less than a year into raising a small flock of egg laying hens in Western NY area. Today my husband awoke to one of our white chickens with a bloody bottom/vent. She is moving very slowly around the coop and staying away from the other chickens. This is the 3rd hen to be found this way in the past 3 months....the other 2 died the same day we noticed the bloody bottom/vent. The first one died before we noticed her bleeding but when we found her, she had a bloody vent and not egg bound. The 2nd one, who died a month ago, we found her listless, bloody vent, and not moving out of the laying box. I was able to check her to see if she was egg bound, and she wasn't and died that night. The next day we treating the remaining 10 hens with Corid for 5 days and then starting putting cider vinegar in their water and changing their water every 12 hrs. Now this one........ I am suspecting Cocidiosis as all the research into her and my last lost hen points me that way. Someone said to us that they washed the ground with a Clorox/water mixture to help kill the parasites.....but that would make me worry about killing the flock with Clorox. What is my best way to try and prevent this from happening in the future???? We have become so attached to them and this is so difficult for us to keep loosing our "girls". Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Chicka Momma

How old are your chickens, and have you added any new ones lately? Are the vents bloody from possibly being pecked, or are there bloody poos in the coop when this has happened. I'm just asking in case you have a chicken pecking the others, actually pulling out the vent and pecking them to death. When a new chicken is brought in they can expose chickens to a new strain of cocci that they haven't become immune to. Most chickens build up immunity to the cocci in their own soil by 11-20 weeks. It is hard to clean for coccidiosis since the oocysts are in the soil and coop. Ammonia is supposed to be good for cleaning after an outbreak, but the best thing is to keep the food and water high enough up and cleaned out if poo gets into it. Worms and enteritis can cause some blood in the stool. Here is a good link about coccidiosis: http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/12/coccidiosis-what-backyard-chicken.html

 

[maxpedley]

No

Yes they do. I've had it before

 

[ten chicks]

Yes they do. I've had it before

What was the name of the wormer you used for coccidiosis?

 

[maxpedley]

I used it ages ago so I don't remember. It was just a standard wormer I got from my feed store but it said it had anticoccidials in it. I think it may have been verm-x

 

[casportpony]

Yes of course I know what it is. Its a parasitic disease and that information is correct. To treat you use the correct wormer which will contain anticoccidials however treatment must be very quick after the outburst has begun

Exactly what wormer are you referring to, 'cause womers like fenbendazole, albendazole, ivermectin, pyrantel pamoate will not treat or cure coccidiosis. Please show me a properly documented study that says otherwise and then I'll be more than happy to say you were right, but until then, wormers are an ineffective coccidiosis treatment.

-Kathy

 

[ten chicks]

I used it ages ago so I don't remember. It was just a standard wormer I got from my feed store but it said it had anticoccidials in it. I think it may have been verm-x

Verm x is a 100% herbal product,and is not licensed to my knowledge to be labeled as a wormer,i also could not find any information regarding coccidia and this product.

 

[casportpony]

They often come in a wormer though

Wrong.

-Kathy