HELP – What is wrong with our chick? *Sad update*

[wordgirl]

Thank you everyone. I am very glad I had all of you to come to for help yesterday.

Unfortunately, our chick total has dropped to 20. The Gold Link died yesterday afternoon. So far none of the other chicks have looked sick, but there are still one or two pooping brown liquid. Are we going to lose more?

 

[PunkinPeep]

do you recognize your liquid brown poop in this?

warning - graphic poop pictures
http://www.chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=17568.0

i'm really sorry about your loss.

 

[wordgirl]

I guess it would look the most like the caecal (sp?) ones. So they're normal?

 

[PunkinPeep]

I guess it would look the most like the caecal (sp?) ones. So they're normal?

i think so.

unless they start acting sick, i think i would stop worrying. that's just me. you kind of have to go with your gut, but also don't worry yourself unnecessarily. you know?

also, it might ease your mind and improve your knowledge base if you looked into getting a necropsy on the one who died. then you would know at least if you have something to protect the others against or not?

one other thing, if it were me, i would say that if you see anymore bloody poops, go ahead and do a 5 day round of corid on the whole bunch of them. when my flock had cocci, only one showed symptoms, but i treated them all, and now they are all healthy. but i think i caught it early.

i think (in my very limited experience, mind you) that cocci is the most likely culprit. this one might've just been a little weaker than the others.

i hope others will give you input.

On the Corid, i used about a tablespoon to a gallon of water. Speckledhen uses almost twice that (9cc)....i always look at what she does when i have a chance; she knows SO much more than i do.

 

[wordgirl]

Thanks, lismrog. You've been a big help!

 

[PunkinPeep]

With the very little that i know, i am super pleased to be helpful if i can. It was nice of you to say.

Hope the remaining 20 are happy and healthy.

 

[Tweeza]

Could you be giving to much electrolytes and vits? I noticed runny brown poop when I started to give it to my chicks. I figured it was the electrolytes/vits so I decreased the amount and they went back to normal. Several months later I realized I had miscalculated.

 

[LynneP]

I'm so sorry you lost the one we discussed. Sounds like they ingested something- you're sure that one didn't ingest dandelion stem or flower? Once they've been outside it's so hard to know what they might have touched or eaten. I agree about necropsy, it's just so hard in some regions to get one done.

No recalls on your feed?

What are you using?

I still think you're catching cocci, early.

 

[eenie114]

Where did you order your chicks from? If they were sick from the very beginning, I don't want to get mine from the same place.

 

[wordgirl]

Brau Hatchery, which is somewhere in Minnesota. We ordered our chicks from them through our local feed store, and all were very healthy – it was just that one that died about a week and a half after we got her. She may have died of something that had nothing to do with the hatchery. I was really very happy with Brau Hatchery – it was close enough that the chicks only had to be in transit for a couple of hours, the prices were reasonable, the selection was relatively good, the chicks were healthy, and there wasn't a single mistake with the sexing of our 21 birds. I would readily order from them again.