Help! Sleepy Chicks Dying!

[seminolewind]

Kelar is right. I use the sulfamethoxine as well, it's fast. I use a tsp per gallon.
This thread got me thinking about the 10 week old chick I have in the bathroom. I put sulf. in the water . She slept with her head down all day yesterday. Today she is standing and pruning. I can't say she's well tho. I need her to eat.

I read up on coccidiosis, and there are many different kinds, and also the illness depends on how much they get in them. There are types that cause bloody stools, and also types that are so mild you'd never notice, except they lose weight, and are slightly less active.

Last year, I had one I found laying on her side. I dripped some med-water in her mouth, and by the evening she was drinking and eating by herself. Her brother the next day I found him spewing bloody stool, and put him with his sister, and he recovered quickly as well. He had gotten it worse, and he was always puny till he was about 6 months old, and started to catch up. Now he's alpha-roo. He started out as an egg that was laid in my car when I brought a hen home for the neighbor.

 

[sherpagirl]

I never found any sulmet, been trying herbal things. Had to order it, it should come tomorrow. I haven't lost anymore. One looks bad, some have improved. Whatever is wrong with them the only symptom is being lethargic and having their feathers puffed up. Poop looks good. Is there anything else it could be? 15 of the chicks i hatched but 3 of them were purchased at 2 weeks and put in with these chicks of the same age, those 3 did not get sick, but not all of the other ones got sick either so i can't really point the finger at the 3 newcomers, but that is the only other source of contamination they were exposed to. Someone thought the chicks had aCRD disease from the 3 chicks. Are there any other diseases other than cocci that just make them tired?(at least that is the only symptom for the first 4 days). How about anemia? But they don't have lice, so i don't know why that would be.

 

[seminolewind]

Are they eating and drinking?

 

[sherpagirl]

Yes, I think they are all eating and drinking now. They seem better but i did see a little blood in some poo this morning. I just got the Sulmet, yipee, I hope it works!

 

[pips&peeps]

Get some corid/amprolium. It is in the cattle section of your TSC store.

Just because they get cocci on the feed, doesn't mean the cocci oocytes are immune to the amprolium. The amount in the feed is very minimal, and yes, I have had chicks get cocci in a brand new rubbermaid container with no exposure to the outside...

 

[spiritdance]

Offer them some mixed baby cereal made up into a thick paste. I recently had an outbreak of cocci and I tried this with my weakest one. It ate it very readily and rebounded quickly even though she was at death's door. I think the cereal is easier for them to digest than egg or ration (given the damage the cocci does to their intestinal tract). I mixed it with the cocci meds in water.