HELP!!! Lethargic 6 Week Old Chick With Bloody Stool

[EChicky]

Yesterday we noticed blood in one of our chicks stool. We gave her corid in her water, assuming it was considiosis. Today, she is very lethargic. She will open her eyes or stand up occasionally, but will always lay back down. We got her to drink a good amount of water with corid in it as well as some save a chick electrolytes. Is there anything we can do? She is a beloved member of our family and we want to do everything we can to save her.

 

[EChicky]

Yesterday we noticed blood in one of our chicks stool. We gave her corid in her water, assuming it was considiosis. Today, she is very lethargic. She will open her eyes or stand up occasionally, but will always lay back down. We got her to drink a good amount of water with corid in it as well as some save a chick electrolytes. Is there anything we can do? She is a beloved member of our family and we want to do everything we can to save her.

Her name is Sugar by the way

 

[LaFleche]

If she is this bad already she would need a sulfa drug like TMP SMZ, toltrazuril or similar.

 

[EChicky]

If she is this bad already she would need a sulfa drug.

What is that? Is there any way to get one quickly? Would taking her to the vet help?

 

[LaFleche]

What is that? Is there any way to get one quickly? Would taking her to the vet help?

It is an antibiotic that works much better in severe cases than corid.

 

[EChicky]

Okay. I'm gonna try to get some. Thank you!

 

[EChicky]

She sadly passed away this morning. We tried everything but I guess we caught it too late.

 

[BecksNesting]

What happens with Cocidiosis is basically this, the protozoa invade the intestinal tract where it causes hemorrhaging, then the chicks cannot absorb fluids; therefore, dehydration sets in, that's per Mississippi State Poultry. They expected my last four out of seven wouldn't make it, .... but they did and they are doing extremely well.

What I first noticed is one chick sitting looking "fat, dumb, and a bit sad". HINT THE CROP LOOKED FULL, and bloody poops, because they couldn't absorb water nor food through their digestive process.

Then the next day, it was doing the same thing, .... then there was a 2nd and 3rd chick out of the ... seven were doing the same too. I knew then what it was .... heavy rains, feed on the ground where they spilt it, and chicken poop etc. I immediately isolated the seven that were incidentally already still in a chicken tractor that was inside our bull paneled chicken runs. I still removed them, shut the access to the chicken tractor, and brought them into what we called their baby beds, lol. The first one died on day three, the second by that evening, then the third the next day. That's when we stepped up our game by giving the Corid mixed water via small syringes by mouth(s), plus ProMoxil mixed with water, and then B Complex with Electrolytes ... also mixed with water. We did this several times a day and a couple times at night. After several days of doing this, we still had one that we expected to die hour by hour. So, we thought, well win, lose or draw ... we had to go the extreme ... two drops of straight Corid, followed by the ProMoxil water and B Complex Electrolytes water. That SAVED that chicks life.

We've only had chickens since late July, so initially we had one rooster (Harold - Rhode Island Red/Fighting Rooster mix) given to us to have for dinner. From that point on we added TSC chicks, were given two mixed fighting hens, .... gave those two back plus six hens to the teen. Then bought four, Silver Laced ... then the seven, THEN 29 MORE SILVER LACED, and four Brown Hens (for our own eggs). So in ONE YEAR WE ARE AT FOURTY EIGHT CHICKENS! How's that for "chicken math"!

You can't tell they ever missed a meal today, and this all happened last April/May.

 

[LaFleche]

She sadly passed away this morning. We tried everything but I guess we caught it too late.

I am sorry to hear you lost her

 

[BecksNesting]

That's sad Sugar died. But, you tried.