Need chicken help🙏

[allforthegreaterpaws]

Need some chicken advice

I have a babe 4 months old who is lethargic,having a hard time keeping her eyes open, Extremely puffy in the neck and breast area,is looking to be lopsided. (Images below)She is drinking water so thats good news! None of my other chickens are having negative symptoms. Everyone in the flock is happy, eating,and drinking. This is what I do during the hot days for my chickens.

1: Frozen water bottles and ice packs in their coop

2: Ice in their water

3: Frozen enrichment

4: Shade

5: kitty pool (some chickens like it some don’t)

6:fans

7:misters

8: spray the dirt in their chicken run

9:electrolytes in water

With that being said, I don’t think it’s heat exhaustion.

I don’t see any open wounds or wet butt.

She is the most aggressive chicken I have in my flock, and she is allowing me to hold her and inspect her. So I know something is wrong! I brought her inside for the evening.she sat with me on the couch And I will keep her in a kennel inside overnight. Walked away for 10 mins and I found bloody water stool or vomit in the kennel. I have worked with tons of chickens over the years, but this I have not seen in person. Has any anyone something like this?

 

[azygous]

The bloody stool along with the lethargy points to the possibility of coccidiosis. It wouldn't hurt to treat the entire flock to be safe. Are you familiar with Corid and how to give it? You can do the drench dose for the sick chicken in addition to the Corid water. It's around .5ml undiluted Corid for a four or five pound chicken given orally for three days. The Corid water is two teaspoons in one gallon of water for five days, wait a week and do another five day round.

 

[allforthegreaterpaws]

The bloody stool along with the lethargy points to the possibility of coccidiosis. It wouldn't hurt to treat the entire flock to be safe. Are you familiar with Corid and how to give it? You can do the drench dose for the sick chicken in addition to the Corid water. It's around .5ml undiluted Corid for a four or five pound chicken given orally for three days. The Corid water is two teaspoons in one gallon of water for five days, wait a week and do another five day round.

thank you! No I am not familiar.

 

[azygous]

Hopefully your feed store carries it. Buy the liquid form. You can always buy it on line, but it would take time to ship, and the young chicken might get sicker.

Coccidia are parasites that live in the soil, and they can infest chickens' intestines, often destroying the lining. The Corid blocks thiamine, the nutrient they feed on.

 

[Abborgialli]

I read in another forum if you have young chicks /pullets that spraying the ground can increase the risk of coccidia. Given she is young is definitely a consideration. I'm no expert, but just thought I'd share what I saw.

 

[allforthegreaterpaws]

Hopefully your feed store carries it. Buy the liquid form. You can always buy it on line, but it would take time to ship, and the young chicken might get sicker.

Coccidia are parasites that live in the soil, and they can infest chickens' intestines, often destroying the lining. The Corid blocks thiamine, the nutrient they feed on.

Thank you

 

[allforthegreaterpaws]

I read in another forum if you have young chicks /pullets that spraying the ground can increase the risk of coccidia. Given she is young is definitely a consideration. I'm no expert, but just thought I'd share what I saw.

Thank you

 

[Abborgialli]

Thank you

I'm still spraying our dirt, mind you- but I'm treating their water at the same time. They've been out for a month or two anyways and the wild birds have been hovering, so I feel it can't hurt.

 

[azygous]

The incidence of coccidiosis does seem to increase during wet warm weather, but coccidia are everywhere regardless of weather or spraying the ground. But that's only one factor. There are nine strains of it that affect chickens, and most of the time, they get infected by importing a strain other than the local one that our chickens haven't developed resistance to. It can happen if you went somewhere muddy and got it on your shoes and brought it home, or if you imported some top soil to make a garden. A couple years ago my flock got a bad case from the construction sand I bought for their run.

Baby chicks usually develop resistance to the coccidia in your soil during their first few weeks. This is why many people use medicated chick starter. It has amprolium in it at a very low dose (same thing as Corid), and it guards against them getting too much exposure that would make them sick. Most of the time medicated feed isn't really necessary if you expose your baby chicks to the soil by putting a little clump of sod in their brooder. Their immune systems kick into gear to make antibodies.

 

[allforthegreaterpaws]

The incidence of coccidiosis does seem to increase during wet warm weather, but coccidia are everywhere regardless of weather or spraying the ground. But that's only one factor. There are nine strains of it that affect chickens, and most of the time, they get infected by importing a strain other than the local one that our chickens haven't developed resistance to. It can happen if you went somewhere muddy and got it on your shoes and brought it home, or if you imported some top soil to make a garden. A couple years ago my flock got a bad case from the construction sand I bought for their run.

Baby chicks usually develop resistance to the coccidia in your soil during their first few weeks. This is why many people use medicated chick starter. It has amprolium in it at a very low dose (same thing as Corid), and it guards against them getting too much exposure that would make them sick. Most of the time medicated feed isn't really necessary if you expose your baby chicks to the soil by putting a little clump of sod in their brooder. Their immune systems kick into gear to make antibodies.