Is this poo normal? *Pictures*

[casportpony]

True enough but a lot of people like to jump to cocci if anything is abnormal too. Not saying you are but people kept telling me my pullets bloody poo was cocci when she was never outside and it cleared up in a couple days. She'd just eaten some wood shavings. But I guess treating it couldn't hurt. The meds I have say not to eat eggs from them though. How many days after treatment should you wait till eating the eggs again?

Do you have Corid, Amprol or Sulmet?

-Kathy

 

[Darkfeather]

Do you have Corid, Amprol or Sulmet?

-Kathy

Sulmet I think.

 

[casportpony]

True enough but a lot of people like to jump to cocci if anything is abnormal too. Not saying you are but people kept telling me my pullets bloody poo was cocci when she was never outside and it cleared up in a couple days. She'd just eaten some wood shavings. But I guess treating it couldn't hurt. The meds I have say not to eat eggs from them though. How many days after treatment should you wait till eating the eggs again?

Did you know that there are nine types of chicken coccidia and that Sulmet, the medicine you have, only treats two of those? Turkeys get a different set of seven and Sulmet only treats two of those.

From: http://www.jefferspet.com/images/label/16350.htm
FOR THE CONTROL OF:
Chickens: Infectious Coryza (Haemophilus gallinarum)
Coccidiosis (Eimeria tenella, Eimeria necatrix)
Acute Fowl Cholera (Pasteurella multocida)
Pullorum Disease (Salmonella pullorum)
Turkeys: Coccidiosis (Eimeria meleagrimitis, Eimeria adenoeides)



This is a great resource!
http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/freepubs/pdfs/agrs52.pdf

It has info like this:






-Kathy

 

[lauranickerson]

So what would you all do then? Worm them? I can't tell if they are all molting or just sick. No eggs from them, either, so that doesn't really help my diagnosis. :/

If you say worming should be done, which of the given wormers have you all had the best luck with? And would Tractor Supply have them? I'm thinking about building a small makeshift coop for them, since the garage is getting kind of gross and destroyed from them.

 

[casportpony]

Molting can be *very* hard on them and the wormer that I use, Fenbendazole 10% (Safegaurd or Panacur, liquid or paste), is not supposed to be used during molt (causes stunted feather, I think), although I have used it during molt and it hasn't caused any issues with mine. TSC sells another wormer, Wazine, but it only gets roundworms. Your TSC might have Valbazen (albendazole). Many people here swear by it, and it's probably pefectly fine for chickens, but it can cause death in pigeons, doves and crias and aplastic anemia info species.

Wazine should be in the chicken section and the others would be in the cattle, goat and horse sections.

While you're at it, you should dust them and their coop for mites and lice with a proper poultry dust, not DE.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Since they are molting, you could feed them some 30% gamebird crumbles or turkey starter, that might make them feel better.

- Kathy

 

[lauranickerson]

I've seen Wazine there for sure. Would that be good enough?

 

[lauranickerson]

And how can you tell for sure if they're molting or just losing feathers from being sick? Or do they even do that? (Sorry, newbie to sick chickens.)

 

[casportpony]

I don't know of any diseases that cause feather loss... Not saying they don't exist, I just haven't read about them.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I've seen Wazine there for sure. Would that be good enough? 

Ask dawg53, he would know.

-Kathy