Help! Lethargic hen, not eating!

[Betsy57]

Corrid and Amprol are two different brands of cocci medicine (Amprolium).

Okay, thank you. I thought they were the same thing.

 

[Betsy57]

Corid is the name brand for Amprolium, I found this FDA sheet to be helpful:

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/animaldrugsatfda/details.cfm?dn=013-149

And when you compare it with this link:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/2919391/

It proves that your eggs are still edible while and after treating.

The link from casportpony also says to compost your litter. Coccidiosis is not transferred from chicken to chicken they actually have to eat it through the feces they get off the the ground. Makes sense as wild birds can bring it in as well as humans on their shoes and pets on their paws. This has been a great learning experience, thanks everyone!

Thank you! You all are so helpful!

 

[Betsy57]

I put one hen down last night and now have another one that is very thin and not eating. I gave her a shot of Tylan this morning and will continue with that. She isn't eating. But I gave her some canned cat food and she ate that. Just a little bit but at least something. There are 2 more out in the chicken yard with loose/green poop! I HATE this part of raising chickens!

 

[ten chicks]

I put one hen down last night and now have another one that is very thin and not eating. I gave her a shot of Tylan this morning and will continue with that. She isn't eating. But I gave her some canned cat food and she ate that. Just a little bit but at least something. There are 2 more out in the chicken yard with loose/green poop! I HATE this part of raising chickens!

Curious why you are using Tylan if you feel your birds may have Coccidiosis. Tylan will do nothing for Cocci.

 

[casportpony]

Curious why you are using Tylan if you feel your birds may have Coccidiosis. Tylan will do nothing for Cocci.

X2! Have you tried de-worming her yet?

-Kathy

 

[Betsy57]

Curious why you are using Tylan if you feel your birds may have Coccidiosis. Tylan will do nothing for Cocci.

She has no symptoms of cocci (her poop is green, not bloody). Yes, am worming her and trying antibiotics. There's another one (third one) that is having issues too. So has to be something in the environment since this is the third one. They are eating a little bit (one VERY little bit) and gave them some canned cat food and they ate a little of that. Will try the tube feeding.

 

[ten chicks]

She has no symptoms of cocci (her poop is green, not bloody). Yes, am worming her and trying antibiotics. There's another one (third one) that is having issues too. So has to be something in the environment since this is the third one. They are eating a little bit (one VERY little bit) and gave them some canned cat food and they ate a little of that. Will try the tube feeding.

There does NOT have to be blood in poop,to be a Coccidiosis outbreak. Their are 9 strains of Cocci,and one has blood as a symptom. Symptoms are : runny/watery poop(may or MAY NOT contain blood,depends on which of the 9 strains it is)fluffed feathers,lethargic,not eating/drinking,weight loss,etc.
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[YourEggs]

My girl, Floppsie, did not have blood in her poop just runny white/clear poop and she is thriving now since I treated her with Corid. Also the other hens that had some blood in the whites of their poop are doing much better now too. I am following the FDA suggestions and am following up my 7 day course of Corid with at least a 5 day course of half dose Corid. Then I will put them right back on the AVC. We needed the rains in our part of the country so bad but now I am saying rain, rain go away.

 

[casportpony]

I've seen many types of poops in chicks with coccidiosis and some of those poops looked like these:

-Kathy

 

[Betsy57]

There does NOT have to be blood in poop,to be a Coccidiosis outbreak. Their are 9 strains of Cocci,and one has blood as a symptom. Symptoms are : runny/watery poop(may or MAY NOT contain blood,depends on which of the 9 strains it is)fluffed feathers,lethargic,not eating/drinking,weight loss,etc.
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I am trying everything I can at this point. I am feeding them medicated chick starter, put Corrid in the water, doing the Tylan, and wormers. The worse one is eating a bit (moistened chick starter, canned cat food, apple sauce) and starting to poop (had quit). It is green but it is poop. The other one is eating pretty good and pooping more (I put them in the same cage and it seems like they may enjoy the company instead of being alone). So I am encouraged with these two (although the one isn't eating nearly enough). The worse one has passed a couple jelly bean size goo balls. Hard to describe. Solid but moist and rubbery. Maybe malformed eggs or lodged eggs, no shells. What about mixing up some Corrid and spraying the bare ground out in the chicken yard?