Ive been killing my 6 week olds Help me save one! update, graphic pic

[Cetawin]

Treat with Corid not sulmet. Get the powder and put it in the water for 5 - 7 days...if it is the 20% stuff mix it 1 tsp per gallon of water for Cocci.

If it is wry neck...get them on vitamins asap.

 

[chickenzoo]

I think it was coccidia. Even with medicated food, and on wire they can still get it, don't know how but they do. Treat with Corid. When birds are that skinny, their body starts to shut down, organs fail - (think what happens to anorexic people) they have trouble maintaining body temperature, so I put them under a light. When they get so weak, they can no longer swallow, their body has pulled out all nutrients and they start going into a coma from lack of blood sugar and organ failure etc..., their body starts to arch back, pupils widen and then death. this is why you little chick looked like he was arching back his neck. So sorry you lost them.....

 

[gavinandallison]

Is this the same corid as given to cattle? how about the poly-vi-sol, the same as you give infants? or do you get them somewhere special?

 

[TyrannosaurusChix]

Quote:
omg!! Im going to go get some today for sure!I wasnt able to yesterday

They were in a pen with no soil and were put out.. maybe it was from the inside pen. i cant imagine being outside( and btw chickens have never been in that part of the yard) would cause it. but it probably started before..

IVe raised chicks in there before and never did anything different i wonder why it hit the polish? IVe read they are a little bit mroe fragile. GOsh do i feel like an awful chicken owner. Im already afraid to go outside once it gets light out.

 

[chickenzoo]

It happens, even to the best of us who have been raising hundreds. Coccidia live in the ground and their are several different types. What happens is chickens in one area, or with one group get use to one type of coccidia. Add in a different bird or put them in a different location... well their might be a different strain there that no one is use too.

 

[BWKatz]

Well are they still ok?

Put ur heat light out there with a thermometer and make sure the vitamins don't have iron.

Healing blessings coming ur way.

 

[TyrannosaurusChix]

no more deaths today, thankfully.. i went and bought polyvisol and corrid.. ouch!!! lots of money spent today.

I havent done the math on what i should give them so i just mixed up the wate rin their pan with an eyeball amount of the corrid and added two droppers of the visol and swished it around. so much mayhem! I tried to cath all of them and dip their beaks in the water... i probably double dipped some and missed others, but everyone looked better than the one yesterday.. a few slight hunches, some skinnier than others. no bloody poop anywhere.. this is what has me puzzled!!!!

Anyways, hopefully they will be better starting today and if anyone would so kindly give me instrutions for these 5 week olds for corrid and the vitamins i would GREATLY appreciate it!

 

[chickenzoo]

liquid Corid is 1 teaspoon per gallon, powder is 1/2 teaspoon per gallon. Vitamins, I use 1/2 -1 squirt to 1/2-1 gallon... LOL

 

[TyrannosaurusChix]

Quote:
if its off hopefully not by much!!!! its a big pan from tsc. i put in an eyeball of a tsp- a rounded tsp and 2 of the dropper( to the line) in the polyvisol without the iron symbol on the box.

Thank you!!

ETA: powder corrid is all i could find at the tsc in a different town that im not used to! ( over $23 ! and over 8 for the visol) not to mention is was 13 i think for the dip for the other chickens. then over 10 for the shavings i got... and other school items ihad to buy LOL


Thank goodness ive already invest over 200 in other supplies last week.

 

[chickenzoo]

Well at least that Corid will last you for a long time. Just put it in a ziplock bag after you open it to keep it fresh. : )