Such a wealth of info in this community -- hoping you can help us with our dilema...
Noodle is our 8 month old New Hampshire Red -- bloody poop 2.5 weeks ago so took her to the vet (expensive!); cocci treated all three of our hens with Baycox (Toltrazuril). Restested after the treatment and cocci gone. Bloody poop has returned -- but very intermittantly (few drops under the roost and not every day.)
Problem is that we don't want to spend hundreds more at the vet -- she is saying it could be anything from heavy metal poisoning to tumors to who-knows what! Could also be cocci again but she thinks there is probably some other underlying issues that is making her sensitive to it recurring. We don't want to do heroics for this bird. We will cull if necessary but question is how to decide if to do that and when? We don't want any suffering but don't want to cull her if it isn't really necessary. Can anyone share other ideas of what we could do or how to approach the decision?
More background: Everyone was acting normal before/after the Baycox. Noodle hadn't been laying (others are...) but started a few days after the treatment. Some weird eggs from her in the last two weeks -- 1 shell-less, 2 normal looking but soft shelled and 2 rubber shelled. Figure that is just her working out the plumbing.
Thanks!
Noodle is our 8 month old New Hampshire Red -- bloody poop 2.5 weeks ago so took her to the vet (expensive!); cocci treated all three of our hens with Baycox (Toltrazuril). Restested after the treatment and cocci gone. Bloody poop has returned -- but very intermittantly (few drops under the roost and not every day.)
Problem is that we don't want to spend hundreds more at the vet -- she is saying it could be anything from heavy metal poisoning to tumors to who-knows what! Could also be cocci again but she thinks there is probably some other underlying issues that is making her sensitive to it recurring. We don't want to do heroics for this bird. We will cull if necessary but question is how to decide if to do that and when? We don't want any suffering but don't want to cull her if it isn't really necessary. Can anyone share other ideas of what we could do or how to approach the decision?
More background: Everyone was acting normal before/after the Baycox. Noodle hadn't been laying (others are...) but started a few days after the treatment. Some weird eggs from her in the last two weeks -- 1 shell-less, 2 normal looking but soft shelled and 2 rubber shelled. Figure that is just her working out the plumbing.
Thanks!
