Medicated Chick Feed Question

[khind]

I doubt such a young chick will even register on a kitchen scale. I'd just use .1ml per dose. This isn't a toxic substance where too much will be harmful if you miscalculate a dose. With chicks, you need to act quickly, without hesitation. They are so tiny and fragile, they can progress from slightly sick to almost dead in just a very short time.

I got it to stand still twice. 3/4 lb, so I gave .75 cc. For the next doses I'll just give 1 cc each.

Yes, this is my 1st time hatching chicks. I don't know if I said it already, but with the pandemic, I've suddenly been working from home so I figured now I had the time to devote to such a project. The broody hen is a bantam and the eggs that I gave her were standard size, so I didn't give her many. Right now we have four chicks - not many. Trying to get more hens to fix the ratio of hen:rooster. Of course, how many of these chicks are roos, I don't know, but I feel like I'm seeing at least 2

And in fact, i was not planning on taking any trips until probably the end of the year, which is also why I undertook this challenge - which I've made plenty of mistakes with... I figured a way to travel safely. The timing is Never good when it comes to pets however.

 

[khind]

You can continue with the medicated feed or not, since it's a very low dosage in the feed the Corid is going to be what you're relying on for treatment.

You want to offer the more potent dosage for 5 days, then a preventative dose for the next week or two: https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...ol-ampromed-the-correct-amprolium-dose.73341/ Treat all the birds in the flock.

While you are gone, I'd see about premixing enough Corid water for the duration you're gone, for your chicken sitter to use, to make it as easy as possible on them.

If your one sick chick is still drinking ok, I probably wouldn't bother drenching and just let it get the Corid via the waterer, though I did have to drench one sick chick I had to get her kickstarted, as azygous explained above.

Thank you. I seem to remember seeing your post about kick starting a chick while I was researching coccidiosis yesterday.
I'll look at the link that you provided. The instructions that I read on the site that I cited in my other post said that the prevention takes place 2 weeks later, because no bugs would be present to eradicate in under 2 weeks after that 1st round. Anyway, hopefully information gets updated in case there are new findings, and I think it's always good to check additional sources if I'm not absolutely sure of them.

 

[khind]

You can continue with the medicated feed or not, since it's a very low dosage in the feed the Corid is going to be what you're relying on for treatment.

You want to offer the more potent dosage for 5 days, then a preventative dose for the next week or two: https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...ol-ampromed-the-correct-amprolium-dose.73341/ Treat all the birds in the flock.

While you are gone, I'd see about premixing enough Corid water for the duration you're gone, for your chicken sitter to use, to make it as easy as possible on them.

If your one sick chick is still drinking ok, I probably wouldn't bother drenching and just let it get the Corid via the waterer, though I did have to drench one sick chick I had to get her kickstarted, as azygous explained above.

Since I gave the medicine and this water so late in the day, I may give one dose orally to this chick tomorrow morning as well. And while I know that different yards have different concentrations of microorganisms, etc, I also think I can pinpoint some difficulties as well as things that I did wrong that could have made these chicks more vulnerable to a few problems, not just this. I would like to post about that sometime so that I could get thoughts. Just basic, sound practices with chicks in a coop.

 

[rosemarythyme]

And while I know that different yards have different concentrations of microorganisms, etc, I also think I can pinpoint some difficulties as well as things that I did wrong that could have made these chicks more vulnerable to a few problems, not just this. I would like to post about that sometime so that I could get thoughts. Just basic, sound practices with chicks in a coop.

I actually take no precautions with my chicks, other than having Corid on hand - no medicated feed, no vaccination. I did have coccidiosis with my initial hens (now 4 yrs old) but with the last 2 batch of chicks the only "inoculation" they got was exposure to the run and deep litter from 2 days old onward.

 

[khind]

I actually take no precautions with my chicks, other than having Corid on hand - no medicated feed, no vaccination. I did have coccidiosis with my initial hens (now 4 yrs old) but with the last 2 batch of chicks the only "inoculation" they got was exposure to the run and deep litter from 2 days old onward.

I would like to try this the next time.

 

[Flockincrazy]

I have been feeding my chicks medicated feed since they were hatched on our farm and did not received inoculations. I have chicks that are 4 weeks old, another hatch that is 1 week old and will be having some hatch in about three weeks. I am finding that medicated feed is harder to find that just the regular chick feed. I am wondering if the unmedicated is really necessary to feed them. Does anyone have any feelings about this?

My mom was having the same problem so she bought a bag of each and mixed it