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[Acornewell]

@chickrookie Dosage is 2 teaspoons per gallon. Treat for 7 days for the first round. You may have to give them the mixed water solution in a dropper to make sure they get enough of the meds.

So sorry about your losses. We too are dealing with the same thing.

 

[Acornewell]

I really need some help!

Im trying to figure out what to do next. I have treated my chicks for coccidiosis ( I treated all chickens even if housed separate), first cycle was 5 days, waited about a week and a half...because they started to look bad again. Treated them for 5 more days...about 3 days later a few started to act down again. We lost one on Sunday, she was about 3 months old. Currently, I have 1 cochin boy about 2 months old and he is not wanting to eat but he is drinking on his own. Today will be day 7 of the 3rd corrid treatment. He is the only one that is acting sleepy and not eating on his own. I am wondering if it is Enteritis? I am getting ready to run to TSC and pick up some rooster booster, it has Bacitracin (Bmd) in it? I JUST DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!!!!

 

[Leahs Mom]

I really need some help!

Im trying to figure out what to do next. I have treated my chicks for coccidiosis ( I treated all chickens even if housed separate), first cycle was 5 days, waited about a week and a half...because they started to look bad again. Treated them for 5 more days...about 3 days later a few started to act down again. We lost one on Sunday, she was about 3 months old. Currently, I have 1 cochin boy about 2 months old and he is not wanting to eat but he is drinking on his own. Today will be day 7 of the 3rd corrid treatment. He is the only one that is acting sleepy and not eating on his own. I am wondering if it is Enteritis? I am getting ready to run to TSC and pick up some rooster booster, it has Bacitracin (Bmd) in it? I JUST DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!!!!

@acornwell

After you treated, did they continue to have blood in the stools or did they just look droopy?

If no blood, you may be experiencing a thiamin deficiency. Amprollium (corid) is a thiamin blocker. The lack of thiamin can cause lethargy, inability to use the legs, stargazing and death.

If no blood STOP THE CORID IMMEDIATELY!!!!!~ - get them one of the 2 of these things immediately:

A. Children's poly-vi-sol drops NO ADDED IRON. Put in their waterer...may have to dose them by dropper.

OR

B. Nutri-drench for poultry but check to be sure there is an adequate amount of thiamin.

That would be the "emergency" route.
For the natural route to continue to restore them, feed raw liver, chopped in tiny pieces; Lewis labs brewers yeast has a good amount of thiamin also.

 

[Acornewell]

They do not have blood in their poo. It is really wet in this sick guy, but the others poop has gone back to almost normal. They are all eating. So should I stop the corrid it being day 7? And I do have poly on hand...I havent been giving it because I read the corid was a thiamine blocker?!?

 

[Acornewell]

Oh and his poo is kinda slimy?

How much poly if I give it in a dropper? It contains in 1 ML = 0.5mg of thiamine

Also, in the waterer?

I have heard that you need to also give them Vitamin B Complex after the corrid?

This is something I NEVER want to have to deal with again.

 

[racinchickins]

Sexing by wing feathers...help please.

Sorry I have posted several pictures but second guessing myself here.

The chickens were hatched July 4. The TP we lost had mostly fuzz for wing feathers while the remaining one had good wing feathers. So we assumed he was a male and remaining is a female. What do you think?

Here is the Tolbunt Polish :






Now this is the Gold Brabanter. Do you think male or female...this is last Thursday:




Feedback?

I did some researching on wing sexing. Unfortunately there are major limitations, It only applies to 'slow feathering' hybrids, and must be done within the first 48 hrs after hatching. Since your chicks don't match either criteria, it would only be a guess on sexing. So for the polish, you will have to wait to see what the crest looks like (round bouffant for girls, 80s rock star for boys) when it feathers in. Not sure on the Brabanter, probably when the hackle and saddle feathers come in. Unless either starts crowing before then.......If that happens, I'm guessing boy.

edited to add: I have no idea what is meant by 'slow feathering'. will have to research that too.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Oh and his poo is kinda slimy?

How much poly if I give it in a dropper? It contains in 1 ML = 0.5mg of thiamine

Also, in the waterer?

I have heard that you need to also give them Vitamin B Complex after the corrid?

This is something I NEVER want to have to deal with again.

Since you've dosed several times, my OPINION would be to stop the corid.

This is what I've read on the Poly-Vi-Sol for dosage. I want to give this disclaimer - I've only read this dosage below from people that have used it and I haven't dosed it myself. It sounds right to me, therefore I'm quoting it.


Quote:
IF YOU PUT IT IN THEIR BEAK, PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL! YOU DON'T WANT THEM TO ASPIRATE INTO THE LUNGS.

eta: If I were going to try to feed it to them individually, I think I'd just put a couple drops in a small cap or in the palm of my hand mixed with a little water and dip their beak in it rather than trying to drop down the beak. I think you would likely get enough down them that way without the risk of aspiration. I'd also dose the water in addition to trying to feed individually.

 

[Bawk]

@jchny2000

Two of them are mixed, one buff orpington and blue cochin mix and the other is a RIR and buff orpington mix. The third is full Buff orpington. I'll post pictures when they get out their coops tomorrow, they're only 3 and a half months old and I got them all rooster collars. I live in northern California.

Someone on here was looking for a buff Orpington rooster just a few days ago. Oh wow you are in California. That is far from here

 

[Leahs Mom]

@acornwell
Please read the Edited area that I added above.


I also wanted to ad...
I don't know where you got the chicks but I wanted to tell you a situation of another fellow byc person from a couple years ago.

She had YEARS of healthy poultry raising experience with no issues. A couple years ago she purchased some chicks from a specific hatchery, brought them in, and they all got cocci. Never had an outbreak before and never has again. She later found out that particular hatchery at that particular time had many birds going out that got cocci. It appeared to be just a specific hatch window, and it was documented later from many of the folks that had purchased throughout that window. These folks had been purchasing from that hatchery before with no problem, and it appears that particular time-window had issues. Some weakness that seemed to pre-dispose them to cocci overload. It never happened for them before and then never seemed to be an issue after that particular hatch-window in time.

So this is just to say that this particular group of chicks are probably not going to be the "norm" for you.

This lady never had another problem in the future; only that single batch of chicks.

 

[Indyshent]

I love the black cherries! I'm still hoping that my tomatoes will produce this year. My beds have been underwater countless times this summer like so many others'. (And once again tonight! Tornado watch too -- yippee!!

)

Honestly, I think the lil' cutie mostly resembles this guy from The Grinch!!

We use pieces of rebar (4' - 5' long each). I shove them into the ground beside the tomato plant and then tie the tomato to the rebar stake as the plant grows. Often the plants will grow taller than my stakes. But I don't have to worry about cages falling over.

I second "The Grinch" nod!

As to rebar, I would if I had some or some money to acquire some. Alas, I have neither, so I've just had to make do with what stakes I could find (usually 2ft or less). Rope was, unfortunately the best and only remaining option, which is extra sad because it makes getting around in my tiny, very cramped garden even more difficult. Until I can find some bigger stakes, it'll just have to do. Another problem with the garden site is that previous owners of the house had gravel poured over pretty much the whole yard, so... yeah... stakes are a relentless, terrible pain in the butt for me to sledge into the ground.