live bug in chicken fecal...what is it?

[JanetLM]

I noticed yesterday a couple of my hens are not gaining weight and growing as well as the others. I brought them in the house, started them on corid, gave them a dose of safeguard and did a fecal-one of the hens had coccidia very badly and passed in the night.

The other hen(12(?) week old jersey gaint) has a few coccidia but I also seen this in the fecal- it was actually moving around it looked very much alive...what is it and how can I kill it?



Thanks so much for all the help!

 

[iwiw60]

Can't help, but I've subscribed to your thread...I want to learn about this, too!

 

[Eggcessive]

Interesting. It almost looks like a tick. Hopefully someone will recognize it. Was the poo freshly passed?

 

[Eggcessive]

After looking at a couple of sites on mites and lice, I'm going to guess that it is a mite. Here are the 2 links to see if you agree: http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/08/poultry-lice-and-mites-identification.html
http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/pdf/8162.pdf

 

[JanetLM]

Yes I agree and that was my first thought but was surprised to find it in the fecal.

The poop was freshly passed. The chicken was actually in the house in a box with the hen that passed. They were on a towel asleep and I moved each hen to scoop the poop up.

The hen doesn't seem to have any of the external signs of lice or mites tho.

What would you recommend for treatment? Can I do seven dust and Ivermectin together?

 

[Eggcessive]

The best treatments are either permethrin or sevin dust, but the coop also needs to be treated after the other birds are treated. Mites will hatch eggs every 4-7 days, so dusting should be repeated at 7 day intervals until they are gone. I would read those two articles because they give a lot of info. It's great that you can do your own fecals to look for worms.

 

[iwiw60]

Yes I agree and that was my first thought but was surprised to find it in the fecal.

The poop was freshly passed. The chicken was actually in the house in a box with the hen that passed. They were on a towel asleep and I moved each hen to scoop the poop up.

The hen doesn't seem to have any of the external signs of lice or mites tho.

What would you recommend for treatment? Can I do seven dust and Ivermectin together?

You know...I think @Eggcessive has hit the nail on the head. Yes, you saw it in their poop, but as mites LOVE to be around the vent area it could very well be that they "jumped on the bandwagon" so-to-speak as your bird was pooping...definitely I would say it is mites.

 

[JanetLM]

Will this work?

The other I found said it needed a rx...