Four different abnormal droppings! **Help please**

[polish hen]

In my opinion, yes this is totally abnormal...and the best thing to do whould be a total fecal analisis but since you're unable I whould start with some valbazen wormer and do a severe outbreak dose for cocci, followed buy another 2 weeks with a maitanance dose on the amprol...but I had a hen with green dropping and blood mixed throughout and she ended up having a reproductive infection from a soft shelled egg bursting inside her so she had to have very powerfull antibiotics (baytril plus clavamox and metacam for inflamation and pain) it was soon realised that she could never form hard shell again no matter how much calcium she was given so I opted to have a suprelorin implant put into her to stop her laying cycle, infact I have two girls that get implants all the time and there doing awesome and will be 4 years old this october. Just thought I'd share this because the poop looked identical to your first posted picture...

 

[jlovepj1027]

What do I use to treat for cocci? I have an antibiotic here but it's none of the ones you mentioned. And the dosing information is extremely complicated. The other odd thing is all my hens behave perfectly fine! No lack of appetite, off moods or weight loss. So it's very frustrating.

 

[casportpony]

What do I use to treat for cocci? I have an antibiotic here but it's none of the ones you mentioned. And the dosing information is extremely complicated. The other odd thing is all my hens behave perfectly fine! No lack of appetite, off moods or weight loss. So it's very frustrating.

Many people treat coccidiosis with amrolium (Corid, AmproMed, Amprol, etc.), and some people use a sulfa antibiotic (Sulmet, SulfaMed-G, Albon, DiMethox, etc).

What drugs do you have?

 

[jlovepj1027]

Many people treat coccidiosis with amrolium (Corid, AmproMed, Amprol, etc.), and some people use a sulfa antibiotic (Sulmet, SulfaMed-G, Albon, DiMethox, etc).

What drugs do you have?

I have duramycin-10 and I just treated the flock with Wazine three weeks ago. And the chicks have been inn medicated feed since hatch.

 

[casportpony]

Many people treat coccidiosis with amrolium (Corid, AmproMed, Amprol, etc.), and some people use a sulfa antibiotic (Sulmet, SulfaMed-G, Albon, DiMethox, etc).

What drugs do you have?

I have duramycin-10 and I just treated the flock with Wazine three weeks ago. And the chicks have been inn medicated feed since hatch.

Neither of those will treat coccidiosis, and Wazine only treats large roundworms. If you want to treat for coccidiosis, you need to get some amprolium or a sulfa drug.

Since you mentioned dosing on the drugs you have being confusing, I'll make it simple... The 800 mg dose of Duramycin 10 is 1.5 tablespoons per gallon. One 181 gram pack makes 12.5 gallons. The Wazine dose is 1 ounce (30 ml) per gallon. Does that help?

-Kathy

 

[jlovepj1027]

Neither of those will treat coccidiosis, and Wazine only treats large roundworms. If you want to treat for coccidiosis, you need to get some amprolium or a sulfa drug.

Since you mentioned dosing on the drugs you have being confusing, I'll make it simple... The 800 mg dose of Duramycin 10 is 1.5 tablespoons per gallon. One 181 gram pack makes 12.5 gallons. The Wazine dose is 1 ounce (30 ml) per gallon. Does that help?

-Kathy

Thank you!!! And I haven't seen anymore red poop! However I DID catch my kids feeding them red peppers from our Fresno pepper plant... Could that have caused it??

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Different colored foods can change the appearance of the poop.

-Kathy