Just bought and pooping blood???

[ultasol]

Medicated food is a coccidia PREVENTATIVE but it is NOT a curative dosage. Hie thee to a feed store and get a product which has the active ingredient amprollium (ie corid (even if labelled for cattle/sheep use) or amprol). There are other coccidiostats based on sulfates, but these can cause liver damage and intestinal irritation (such as sulmet), so, if available, an amprollium based drug should be your first try. Realize that by the time they are bleeding quite a bit of damage is being done, so the sooner you can start medicating them the better. You can continue using medicated feed. DO NOT give vitamins if using amprol or a medicated feed as the coccidiostat functions by starving the coccidia of a type of b vitamin they yse heavily, but which is not AS essential to the chick.

Good luck!

 

[chickbird]

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pepto is an aspirin product.....aspirin thins the blood and can cause bleeding.....

 

[speckledhen]

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Agreed. Intestinal lining doesn't look the same as bloody poop, so it could certainly be cocci. Sulmet is hard on their intestines and will make them bleed longer. Corid is much better. 2 teaspoons to a gallon of water, changed out daily, for five days should help.

 

[crystalchik]

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pepto is an aspirin product.....aspirin thins the blood and can cause bleeding.....

It coats the intestinal wall and stops the bleeding. It worked on all my chicks. By the end of the day they had stopped bleeding.

 

[crystalchik]

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If you overdose on Sulfa based drugs or give it to them for too long, yes damage can be done. But if you fallow the directions and give the correct dosage for the correct number of days, its okay.

Vitamin B inhibitors are NOT recommended for treatment of Cocci because it 1) does not always work and 2) the birds and other animals need vit B, it IS more important to them, esp when bleeding. It is a powerful bloodbuilding agent. An example of a Vit B inhibitor is AMPROLIUM also known as Amprol or CoRid...which is NOT recommended or used to treat Cocci in poultry or goats because it can be absorbed by the animal's cells and this ALSO blocks the absorbtion of Vit B...this jeoprodizes the well being of the animal.

Sumet is a Sulfa based drug. "Sulfa drugs block essential biomolecular pathways in the cells of protozoans and bacteria. Kills the coccidia in most of the stages by interfering with molecular pathways."
There for, it IS recommended in treatment for Cocci.