Gosling pooping bubbles and something that looks like maybe worms? She is eating, drinking and walking fine. She looks and acts healthy.

[4Dobermans]

How can I treat this??

 

[Goosebaby]

What kind of bedding do you have her on? Those almost look like they could be bits of wood shavings but I’m not sure.

 

[4Dobermans]

What kind of bedding do you have her on? Those almost look like they could be bits of wood shavings but I’m not sure.

She is on the bedding I used for my other birds last year. It’s called terramigo . It’s basically natural pine bedding with no oils or anything in it. That’s what it looks like. The store uses it for the birds too and I used it last year with no problems. It also works great as rabbit litter for my bunny.

 

[4Dobermans]

What kind of bedding do you have her on? Those almost look like they could be bits of wood shavings but I’m not sure.

Before she pooped the bubbly stuff, she had taken a healthy solid poop like a hour before the bubbles.

 

[4Dobermans]

What kind of bedding do you have her on? Those almost look like they could be bits of wood shavings but I’m not sure.

what do you think? Worms? I have them drinking some corid water just in case.

 

[Goosebaby]

How old is she?

What kind of feed is that? What brand and is it medicated?

You could give corid, but you can’t give b vitamins at the same time as corid or it makes the treatment useless.

I can’t say for sure what’s actually going on, only a vet can say if she has an infection or worms or nothing by doing some testing, but I think those do look like bits of her bedding in her droppings.

Wood shavings can irritate the gut for a number of reasons, one being that it’s just too tough to fully digest, and if the gut is irritated it will either cause constipation or bubbly runny droppings that would mimick worms or an infection.

 

[4Dobermans]

How old is she?

What kind of feed is that? What brand and is it medicated?

You could give corid, but you can’t give b vitamins at the same time as corid or it makes the treatment useless.

I can’t say for sure what’s actually going on, only a vet can say if she has an infection or worms or nothing by doing some testing, but I think those do look like bits of her bedding in her droppings.

Wood shavings can irritate the gut for a number of reasons, one being that it’s just too tough to fully digest, and if the gut is irritated it will either cause constipation or bubbly runny droppings that would mimick worms or an infection.

Yeah they do get the bedding in their water and food a lot! Like do I need to give probiotics with it? Someone told me that if I don’t then they can get fungal and other infections really fast while on corid. Like I have never had a problem with anything like that except when the doctor gave my oldest hen baytril which caused impacted which turned to sour crop and she died a very slow death. She was my favorite and first hen so it was really really hard on me and I still miss her even though she died in November of last year. I have gave all my poultry it because the chicks from last year brought it into my whole coop and I think that’s what my eldest hen had gotten when I took her to the doctor but they gave her the baytril. The baby is Pooping solids again after I gave her the corid.

 

[4Dobermans]

How old is she?

What kind of feed is that? What brand and is it medicated?

You could give corid, but you can’t give b vitamins at the same time as corid or it makes the treatment useless.

I can’t say for sure what’s actually going on, only a vet can say if she has an infection or worms or nothing by doing some testing, but I think those do look like bits of her bedding in her droppings.

Wood shavings can irritate the gut for a number of reasons, one being that it’s just too tough to fully digest, and if the gut is irritated it will either cause constipation or bubbly runny droppings that would mimick worms or an infection.

I have never had to give probiotics but I will if you think I should. they said that the corid takes all the good bacteria away so it can get all different types of things because of the antibiotics. I only gave them one dose of it in their quart water bowl. My chicks and gosling from last year were fine and never got sick after I gave them it.

 

[4Dobermans]

Yeah they do get the bedding in their water and food a lot! Like do I need to give probiotics with it? Someone told me that if I don’t then they can get fungal and other infections really fast while on corid. Like I have never had a problem with anything like that except when the doctor gave my oldest hen baytril which caused impacted which turned to sour crop and she died a very slow death. She was my favorite and first hen so it was really really hard on me and I still miss her even though she died in November of last year. I have gave all my poultry it because the chicks from last year brought it into my whole coop and I think that’s what my eldest hen had gotten when I took her to the doctor but they gave her the baytril. The baby is Pooping solids again after I gave her the corid.

I really don’t like giving any of my birds dairy because it makes me nervous that if any trace of it gets stuck in their crop it will sour so I would really much rather not give them any probiotics.

 

[Goosebaby]

I’m so sorry you lost your dear hen!


Probiotics would be fine, just give it to them in recommended dosages, to much can upset their stomachs.
You don’t have to give them dairy and I wouldn’t advise doing that anyway.
Buttermilk with live cultures is an excellent source of probiotics but it is dairy, Birds can’t digest lactose in dairy which is the reason why dairy causes diarrhea in birds.

There are other sources of probiotics besides dairy though, there are a few probiotic supplements that can be bought for animals, human probiotics work just as well because they use the same species of healthy bacteria. When finding the best probiotic the brands with more species and number of bacteria is the ones to get. Sometimes getting a few different brands helps to get the most diverse gut flora.

The best source of healthy gut bacteria is from being around a healthy adult bird. Probiotics are great, but the number of species in them has no comparison to the thousands of species found in a healthy gut.


Corid isn’t an antibiotic, it blocks the absorbtion of thiamine in the parasite eimeria, which is what causes coccidiosis, it won’t harm whatever good or bad bacteria may be in the gut.
So if you give it to your birds it’s very unlikely to cause an opportunistic yeast infection, if you’re really worried you could give them corid but if they’re behaving normally, are eating, drinking normally, not acting like they’re sick and lethargic I don’t see a reason to treat them for coccidia.

A small amount of exposure to bad bugs like coccidia at an early age can help their immune system learn and fight it off better when they’re older too. Just something to consider.