Lethargic for 2 days/diarrhea

[casportpony]

It could be coccidiosous, or it could be enteritis.The symptoms of cocidiosos are listlessness, head sunk into neck, white diarrhea with possible blood in droppings. The symptoms of enteritis are brown diarrhea, and poor feathering. Could you tell me more about her illness? It is probably cocidiosos.

Head sunk into neck just means that they aren't feeling well and the white diarrhea is not a coccidiosis symptom I have seen, it certainly could be, I just haven't seen it in mine, mine usually have funny looking poop, sometimes with blood, sometimes without. If she were mine I would dust for mites and lice, weigh on kitchen scale, worm with Safeguard or Panacur, liquid or paste at .5ml per 2.2 pounds, start on Corid or Amprol, liquid or powder and probably an antibiotic like Clavamox, Baytril or Cipro. Then is not drinking/eating or losing weight I would tube feed.

• Corid/Amprol powder dose is 1.5 teaspoons per gallon.
• Corid/Amprol liquid dose is 2 teaspoons per gallon.
• Baytril dose is no more than 15-20mg/kg once a day or 10mg/kg twice a day.

1kg = 2.2 pounds
1ml = 1cc
1 teaspoon = 5ml

-Kathy

 

[ChicknsRock]

Quote: My information is coming from a poultry book entitled "Diseases of Poultry" written by a chicken expert. I'm sure she knew what she was talking about.

 

[casportpony]

My information is coming from a poultry book entitled "Diseases of Poultry" written by a chicken expert. I'm sure she knew what she was talking about.

No worries... my info comes from many books, personal experience as well as necropsies done by UC Davis on many types of birds. The local feed store had six very sick birds that I tried to save, none had white poop, all six had poop that looked like this:



Wanna guess what the necropsy report found?

Coccidiosis! Treated many for coccidiosis, none have had white poop.

-Kathy

 

[ChicknsRock]

Quote:

-Kathy

Then it must be, that English chickens have different symptoms then American. Or maybe Brits are color-blind.

 

[Krayfish57]

I haven't seen any blood but it is white and watery. Her head was sunk into her neck. I have not introduced any other chickens into the brood. I have had them all since May. They are about 10-11 months old.
I can use horse de-wormer?

 

[Krayfish57]

I want to thank everyone who posts in the Forum. You are all such a wealth of information and I really do appreciate the help!

 

[ChicknsRock]

I haven't seen any blood but it is white and watery. her head was stuck into her neck. I have not introduced any other chickens into the brood. I have had them all since May. They are about 10-11 months old.
I can use horse de-wormer?

She has coccidiosis for sure. The treatment:
• Baycox, Coxi Plus or Coxoid in water for five days.
And yes, you can probably use horse-dewormer. Just don't overdose.

 

[Eggcessive]

I haven't seen any blood but it is white and watery. Her head was sunk into her neck. I have not introduced any other chickens into the brood. I have had them all since May. They are about 10-11 months old.
I can use horse de-wormer?

Fenbendazole (SafeGuard) horse paste is an inexpensive wormer. If you pay a little more you can get a whole bottle of the Safeguard Liquid goat wormer--same stuff, same strength.

 

[casportpony]

Then it must be, that English chickens have different symptoms then American. Or maybe Brits are color-blind.

I'm sure some strains of coccidiosis can produce white poop, I've just never seen it.

I haven't seen any blood but it is white and watery. Her head was sunk into her neck. I have not introduced any other chickens into the brood. I have had them all since May. They are about 10-11 months old.
I can use horse de-wormer?

You can use Safeguard or Panacur horse wormer, .5ml per 2.2 pounds, which is 50mg/kg - Horses get 5-10mg/kg. Chickens get more per pound than horses, cattle, goats, but I have no idea why that is, lol. Repeat in ten days.

You can worm and treat for coccidiosis at the same time.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

She has coccidiosis for sure. The treatment:
• Baycox, Coxi Plus or Coxoid in water for five days.
And yes, you can probably use horse-dewormer. Just don't overdose.

If the OP is in the US the product that's easiest to get is Corid or Amprol.

• Corid/Amprol powder dose is 1.5 teaspoons per gallon.
• Corid/Amprol liquid dose is 2 teaspoons per gallon.
• Safeguard or Panacur, liquid or paste - .5ml/kg

-Kathy