Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[rbaker0345]

Gardeningmama, amprolium (medicated chick starter) is just a coccidiostat, not a coccidiocide. If you have a particularly strong strain of coccidia, or if your birds get a really high dose of the parasite, or if conditions are wet and humid and damp and muggy and all of those synonyms which coccidiosis loves to flourish in, you can still have birds come down with it.

That is when you administer a sulfa drug according to veterinarian or label instructions.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Sally! don't give corrid continuously! When you are administering an antibiotic, you are killing off MOST of the bacteria. When you give a little bit of antibiotics every day, you are killing the bacteria that are sensitive to the antibiotic and growing, nay, cultivating the bacteria that have a resistance to it. Antibiotics that work, work because they kill off the vast majority of bacteria (and, yes I know coccidia are not really bacteria, but they're close to it). There will still be a few individual bacteria that have a resistance to the antibiotic, but a few bacteria is few enough for your immune system to get rid of. When you cultivate resistant bacteria, they eventually outnumber the ones that are not resistant.

The good news is that single-celled organisms multiply so quickly that it only takes six weeks for the resistance to disappear in the majority of the population once the antibiotic is taken away.

No I didn't read that she was giving anything, but hadn't had time to go read back through again LOL

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: my4ladies

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: If you’re planning to raise 10 or more poults, buy a 100-pound bag of turkey starter that contains
medication to prevent coccidiosis, a common intestinal disease. Turkeys should develop immunity to
coccidiosis while eating medicated starter feed.

from http://extension.unh.edu/resources/representation/Resource000475_Rep497.pdf

Thought I'd jump in here, as the irony of the situation is driving me nuts. I have 4, 12 week old BLRW's. Penned separately from everyone, Thank God! Since hatch day they have been on Purina Med Chick Starter. They have developed the nastiest case of Cocci in spite of the feed. Only 2 weeks ago I started putting them out in their own chick "play pen"on nice days. I saw 1 bloody stool last week. I ignored it

. Yesterday went to put them back out in the play pen, and their pen had bloody stool everywhere. It was horrible. So, I just started them & their neighbor chicks on Corid. But, seriously, I can't figure this one out!

These are some of the most beautiful, and vibrant chicks I've ever seen. I love the contrast of color!
now I see it! There on it!

 

[chicksooner]

Thank God you didnt. Ive been buying the ones with the dark colors to them. They are real pretty.
Thats what I hear. My garden died from the last cold spell. Im going to put out some tomato plants when it warms back up and should have my pen ready for all those chicks. Ive gotta get them out of the garage because round two is going to start happening next week and I need the Brooders emptied.

I have refrained from planting anything that needs warmth. My tomatoes and peppers have way outgrown their pots. They are going in the ground this weekend come rain snow or sun.

I already have tons of strawberries. Everything here in SC growing good. Beans have there 3rd set of leaves starting.

My sugar snaps are loving this cold. sure would like to plant the rest.

 

[chicksooner]

Can someone read through my post and tell me if this is the definition of a "detached air cell"? ...please?

The pictured egg looks like it has an air cell that is too big. If it is moving it is detached. If it has any fluid in it then it is probably ruptured. If it were in an incubator I would tell you to set it big end up and hope for the best.

 

[Gardeningmama]

Maybe y'all should just make FF!!! ANOTHER good reason for FF!!

Mich awwwww do you have them on corid?

I always use a dash in waterers because it keeps them from stinking too!

This is where I think she meant ACV.

Sally! don't give corrid continuously! When you are administering an antibiotic, you are killing off MOST of the bacteria. When you give a little bit of antibiotics every day, you are killing the bacteria that are sensitive to the antibiotic and growing, nay, cultivating the bacteria that have a resistance to it. Antibiotics that work, work because they kill off the vast majority of bacteria (and, yes I know coccidia are not really bacteria, but they're close to it). There will still be a few individual bacteria that have a resistance to the antibiotic, but a few bacteria is few enough for your immune system to get rid of. When you cultivate resistant bacteria, they eventually outnumber the ones that are not resistant.

The good news is that single-celled organisms multiply so quickly that it only takes six weeks for the resistance to disappear in the majority of the population once the antibiotic is taken away.

I think Sally meant the ACV.

Gardeningmama, amprolium (medicated chick starter) is just a coccidiostat, not a coccidiocide. If you have a particularly strong strain of coccidia, or if your birds get a really high dose of the parasite, or if conditions are wet and humid and damp and muggy and all of those synonyms which coccidiosis loves to flourish in, you can still have birds come down with it.

That is when you administer a sulfa drug according to veterinarian or label instructions.

So, do you think I should stick with the Corid, or switch to Sulmet? Or is Corid also a Sulfa Drug?

 

[Gardeningmama]

Sally, a Cochin literally raced out of the shell. Saw a pip, came back an hour later and the chick was out. It actually made me jump when I looked in the bator.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Sally, a Cochin literally raced out of the shell. Saw a pip, came back an hour later and the chick was out. It actually made me jump when I looked in the bator.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

should you give Corid every now then just to be on the safe side? Right now everything stays pretty damp. I know sometimes there poo is good and sometimes runny. But chicken poo to me is never the same. Never no blood though.