I feel like kicking and screaming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mypicklebird]

It sounds like you have been having a run of bad luck, but I feel the need to ask about bird # and space. Do you think with the numbers of birds you have- are they overcrowded, or confined to small areas (cages or pens) right next to each other? Everyone who has chickens, sooner or later has to deal with CRD (mycoplasma), mites/lice, coccidia ect- but often (and I am not saying this is you), when there are multiple infectious problems recurring in the same group of birds, it is due to too many birds in too small an area. Packed coops or years of use of the same piece of ground- parasites will build up. Poor air circulation ect. If you have alot of birds in close quarters or penned on the same piece of ground you have used for along time- can you move the coop, build another, free range ect. If this does not describe your set up- then my big recommendations would be mite/lice control monthly, no fair birds, and quarantine/quarantine/quarantine. Chicks on medicated starter from the start (meaning before they get exposed) usually don't die from coccidia unless you have a massive exposure or really hot strain. Do you know for sure you had coccidia in the silkie chicks (fecal float) or did they just have classic bloody diarrhea?

 

[ivan3]

Mypicklebird wrote: Chicks on medicated starter from the start (meaning before they get exposed) usually don't die from coccidia unless you have a massive exposure or really hot strain. Do you know for sure you had coccidia in the silkie chicks (fecal float) or did they just have classic bloody diarrhea?

Why I suggested eprinex last night (as they were already on medicated starter/antibiotic) there are other internal parasites that cause the shedding and resultant bleeding. Valbazen would be another related med that would serve to knock down the eimeria as well as other baddies (don't know how old the `babies' were so can't be sure exposure/life cycle of other internal parasites might be an issue). But this is shotgunning into the dark.​

 

[dlhunicorn]

Sonoran/Mypickle/ Ivan have given you good advice (and I for one agree with Ivan2 in particular about ditching the current coops only I would build new ones in a new place > when mites get this out of control it is often impossible to get rid of them without moving the new coop to a new area)