Could it be Cocci? 5 week old chicks puffed up seem sleepy Need Help!

[chickenfeverforever]

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You really should try to keep stock of chicken meds just in case. For moments just like this. I also keep extra feed as well so I dont have to make so many trips to the feed store. How many chickens do you have?

 

[Squishypuff]

Ironically, I've got a ridiculous amount of extra chicken meds, but nothing for cocci. Never dealt with it before. I sure wish I'd though ahead. You know what they say about hindsight. Right now, though, finding the right meds is more important than whacking myself over the head for not having had it in the first place. Our TSC does not keep meds in stock, they almost never have much in the cattle/swine/poultry areas. I'm guessing you folks have better stocked TSC. I'm jealous

I agree, there is no point asking what they have- it's a lot faster to walk over and look. Lord knows I spend enough time in that area as it is, with the horse meds and feed. They're good folks over there, but they don't know a thing about chickens.

 

[mysweetgypsy]

I ran into a similar problem. The feed stores that normally carried Sulmet or Corid were no longer carrying it. I talked to the manager at TSC and they said they only had the pills, and don't feel bad, I wasn't going to spend $64 either. I went in to double check and they had the Corid 20% powder, ?!

And they had an empty slot for Sulmet, so I'll just keep chcecking until they restock. For now the Corid is doing wonders, at 2+tsp per gallon every morning. You can order Sulmet and Corid online for roughly the same money as purchasing it in the store, with shipping. If you really can't find it locally, order it, you'll spend about the same $. Time is not on your side however.

I think it's odd that we all have this issue right now with similar, non traditional symptoms, could this be a new strain, or a mutated strain? Yikes I was thinking about dosing my girls with Sulmet in a few weeks, just to kill off any cocci that hung on and became resistant to the Corid. Poor little hens

 

[georgia531]

i searched these posts for 5 days looking for answers and the dosage I found for the powder corid for cattle was a scant teaspoon per gallon. now i am afraid they are not getting enough.. but i am going to stick to that dosage. good luck everybody... this is a terrible thing to go through.

 

[chickenfeverforever]

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I have been doign 1-2 teaspoons per gallon for 5 days now and its working great.

 

[Blue]

One of my 3 week old Brabanters came down with Cocci yesterday; they've been in their outside brooder pen for a week. She is still eating and drinking, but looks a bit droopy, and she has been having the bloody poop. I started medicating all of the 3 week olds with Sulmet; I also started feeding them medicated chick starter yesterday (that wasn't really by choice; it just happened to be the only kind of start and grow that the store had left).

I emptied and refilled their waterer with the Sulmet dosed water again this morning, and I'm hoping that it helps, but I'm still worried about the one Brabanter with the bloody stool and droopy look. Do I need to remove her from the rest? It seems like that the stress of that might just make her worse, but I'm not sure. None of the others have had bloody stool, but I've been medicating them all just to be safe. I figured if one had it, then the rest had already been exposed as well; is this correct?

I've seen mention of Corid, but I think the only kind of Corid my feed store sells is Corid crumbles for cattle: http://www.southernstates.com/catalog/p-2350-corid-crumbles-125-10lb.aspx . This won't work for chickens will it? Will the medicated feed they're getting now help with the Cocci at all? Also, to anyone else who is using Sulmet, have you had good luck with it?

 

[kelar]

The medicated feed does not contain enough medication to knock out the cocci if they are already sick with it. If you can't get corid - either the 20% powder or the 9% liquid - use sulmet. It works well and it works fast although it IS hard on the kidneys. However, I feel that the cocci will surely kill them and hopefully the sulmet will not so long as used in the correct dosage and time. You can also use sulfadimethoxine powder, which is supposed to be safer than sulmet. BTW, Corid powder 20% should be dosed at 1/2 tsp. per gallon. Corid liquid 9% is dosed at 2 tsp. per gallon. There seems to be a lot of confusion on the forum about dosages and think this is because some people use the weaker liquid type and others are using the more concentrated powder.

 

[Blue]

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Thanks. I'm on the second day of the Sulmet, and it doesn't seem to be causing any ill effects that I can tell, so I guess I'll go ahead and work with it since it's what's available to me. After searching some other threads, I also went and added some powdered milk to the chicks' feed to help make the Sulmet easier on them. I also bought some plain yogurt with live cultures and made a little bowl of yogurt paste (mixed in some chick starter), which seemed to be a big hit. All the chicks (including the droopy looking one) seem to be eating and drinking, and I haven't noticed any bloody poop since this morning, so I'm hoping that's a good sign.

 

[chickenfeverforever]

I am on the last day of Corid and my Buff Orps are stull hunch over. So I took them out into a seperate brooder and they are now on Sulmet as well as the Yogurt mash. They were not eating so I had to fill a baby syringe and feed them all. Wasnt sure how much to give them. I will feed them again tonight. Dont know what its hitting these 2 little girls so hard.

 

[chickenfeverforever]

I have switched my 2 Orps and a Silkie to Sulmet after I saw no improvement on the Corid. They were still ruffled up and hunched over all the time. I moved them to a seperate brooder so no one else gets the Sulmet. I made them a nice yogurt mash that EVERYONE loves to death, except these 3. They want nothing to do with it but are eating their regular crumbles. I am hoping the Sulmet pulls them thru.