Duck laying on peafowl eggs

[SolarDuck]

Shes doing okay this morning, still pretty much just resting and sleeping but she is doing better than she was last night, I was really uncertain if she was going to make it through the night but I'm very glad she did

 

[KsKingBee]

If your chick is losing weight it is fighting either cocci or worms. Cocci is the number one killer of peachicks and can kill them quickly. They will have it for a long time before the symptoms start showing, once they start showing signs of being sick their organs have already been damaged. I suggest you treat for cocci asap.

 

[SolarDuck]

If your chick is losing weight it is fighting either cocci or worms. Cocci is the number one killer of peachicks and can kill them quickly. They will have it for a long time before the symptoms start showing, once they start showing signs of being sick their organs have already been damaged. I suggest you treat for cocci asap.

Okay that is what I have been doing with the medicated chick feed syringe. Is there anything else I should do to treat it other than making sure she is eating the medicated feed?

 

[SolarDuck]

I've been giving her the medicated feed in the syringe all day just a little tiny bit at a time. I also gave her a little bit of amprolium powder with water and gave it to her. She's in about the same condition she's been in all day.

 

[Miss Lydia]

@KsKingBee

 

[Miss Lydia]

I'd think giving her the medicated feed a little at a time you don't know if she is getting enough of the med. She won't eat on her own at all?

 

[SolarDuck]

I'd think giving her the medicated feed a little at a time you don't know if she is getting enough of the med. She won't eat on her own at all?

She will not eat on her own, but after giving her the liquid amprolium she really perked up and actually for the first time today stood up and walked to the other side of the cage to take a drink by herself

 

[KsKingBee]

Medicated chick starter for peachicks is useless, all you are doing is starving the chicks of needed vitamins. Amprolium starves the protozoa of the vitamin B and D that cocci needs to thrive, retarding it so the chick can build resistance slowly. If you use toltrazuril it will actually kill the cocci as the birds immune system develops.

A better option for tube feeding peachicks is Kaytee Baby Bird Food sold at the big pet stores, second to that would be hardboiled egg yolk. It looks like you are getting results getting food down the chick but remember they always get a little better before they turn for the worse.

Once our chicks go outside they get regular treatments for cocci and worms on a four week schedule. Toltrazuril for two days every four weeks and Valbazen two weeks later and repeat the second dosing ten days after that so every two weeks they are getting either Toltrazuril or Valbazen.

 

[SolarDuck]

Medicated chick starter for peachicks is useless, all you are doing is starving the chicks of needed vitamins. Amprolium starves the protozoa of the vitamin B and D that cocci needs to thrive, retarding it so the chick can build resistance slowly. If you use toltrazuril it will actually kill the cocci as the birds immune system develops.

A better option for tube feeding peachicks is Kaytee Baby Bird Food sold at the big pet stores, second to that would be hardboiled egg yolk. It looks like you are getting results getting food down the chick but remember they always get a little better before they turn for the worse.

Once our chicks go outside they get regular treatments for cocci and worms on a four week schedule. Toltrazuril for two days every four weeks and Valbazen two weeks later and repeat the second dosing ten days after that so every two weeks they are getting either Toltrazuril or Valbazen.

Okay thank you so much for the advice I'll get all of those things tomorrow

 

[SolarDuck]

Her food does look like it has a little bit pecked out of it now after I gave her that amprolium she is at least walking around a little bit. I'll go get that toltrazuril tomorrow and some of the baby bird food in case i need to give her some. I was weighing her food and weighing her but unfortunately my gram scale just broke so I'll have to get a new one tomorrow