Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

[seminolewind]

Everyone's having triple digits. I must be lucky down here near Tampa. We got up to 96 about 4 days ago. Now it's been cooler and thunderstorms for days. I call that nice weather!

Haunted, everyone thinks Corid is 1/2 tsp per gallon. But Twincities Poultry supply says it's 1 tsp per gallon, and 1/2 tsp per gallon is maintenance. I gotta look again.

 

[casportpony]

Everyone's having triple digits. I must be lucky down here near Tampa. We got up to 96 about 4 days ago. Now it's been cooler and thunderstorms for days. I call that nice weather!

Haunted, everyone thinks Corid is 1/2 tsp per gallon. But Twincities Poultry supply says it's 1 tsp per gallon, and 1/2 tsp per gallon is maintenance. I gotta look again.

I've been think about that lately... need to do some math, lol.

-Kathy

 

[seminolewind]

http://www.corid.com/Pages/WaterTankAdminTreatment.aspx

That's the dosages of liquid and powder from the corid.com.

I always use a tsp per gallon. I figure sick chickens don't drink that much.

 

[casportpony]

That's interesting, 'cause I've been using the liquid at 9.5ml/gallon.

 

[seminolewind]

That's interesting, 'cause I've been using the liquid at 9.5ml/gallon.

Well, Casportpony, in a gallon of water, not really knowing how much they drink, I don't think 1tsp or 2 tsp (9.5ml +/_) is going to be an overdose. To tell you the truth, with these 1 gallon treatments of various meds, if I don't know the dose, I just throw a tsp in, then try to look up the dose.

 

[hogster160]

Ok so I totally was not expecting this, but my ee laid her first egg today. I guess I figured she'd be gone before I got one. She's walking a bit better these days, but still doesnt go far. She still forages, but I think she misses a lot. Eating some eggs oatmeal only if I give it to her.

 

[Haunted55]

Everyone's having triple digits. I must be lucky down here near Tampa. We got up to 96 about 4 days ago. Now it's been cooler and thunderstorms for days. I call that nice weather!

Haunted, everyone thinks Corid is 1/2 tsp per gallon. But Twincities Poultry supply says it's 1 tsp per gallon, and 1/2 tsp per gallon is maintenance. I gotta look again.

"I have started my 'pool chicks' on another course of Di-Methox at 1/2 tsp per gallon. This is the second dosing with this after a 7 day course of Corid."

The dosing I used for Corid was one tsp per gallon, but not with the Di-Methox. In fact using the 1/2 tsp. with that now is pushing the envelope, but since the first one, at 1/4 tsp per, didn't work with all of them I figured 1 last try at the top dosing.

 

[Haunted55]

Ok so I totally was not expecting this, but my ee laid her first egg today. I guess I figured she'd be gone before I got one. She's walking a bit better these days, but still doesnt go far. She still forages, but I think she misses a lot. Eating some eggs oatmeal only if I give it to her.

Wow, I've never seen this before....is it a lash or something else? Ya know what....I am going to ask you to try something. One more trip to Wally World, lol, unless you have them there. Human calcium 500-600 mg with 400 iu D. I got the chewable ones after Casportpony told me about this, crushed one and added it to a small amount of water that I knew my Lucy goose would drink in a short time. This stuff works.....big time! It certainly won't hurt, especially looking at the offering in the picture. I know, I know, you were and I told you to stop. I had no clue you would be getting eggs[?] like this.

Me thinks this one is going to need some extra TLC to get her up and running if we can. This is what I would be doing...keep giving the Super B Complex, everyday, for her I would also try and get the Calcium into her even if you have to crush it and add it to some yogurt instead of the water. At this point, getting it into her is the important thing, not the vehicle of getting it there. You could also add some grit on top, like jimmies on ice cream. She'll either eat it or work around it, I got one of mine tricked into taking in the grit this way. Now she eats it on her own and gets snotty if the grit container isn't full, the brat, half full just isn't good enough for her! If you still have the Poly-Vi-Sol, take a small piece of bread and squirt the dosing onto it and feed it to her, once a day. I did this with full neuro involved Marek's birds and it did help them. This was before I learned that they usually do not come back from the 'roadrunner'. I did learn the vites will keep them alive but in the case I'm talking about, it wasn't a good thing. [oh, the things I've learned...] Anyways my thoughts are this...she has shown improvement, see if another little bit will be the push she needs to get her over the top and able to function more as she should be. Not being there to 'see' is hard but if she is going out and moving around at all is a good sign. Does she preen herself? With my Marek's birds, if I see them doing this, no matter how hopeless it may seem, they usually come back as normal as they can. It may take a while, but if they're worried about their feathers, they're not as bad as the appear.

 

[hogster160]

Wow, I've never seen this before....is it a lash or something else? Ya know what....I am going to ask you to try something. One more trip to Wally World, lol, unless you have them there. Human calcium 500-600 mg with 400 iu D. I got the chewable ones after Casportpony told me about this, crushed one and added it to a small amount of water that I knew my Lucy goose would drink in a short time. This stuff works.....big time! It certainly won't hurt, especially looking at the offering in the picture. I know, I know, you were and I told you to stop. I had no clue you would be getting eggs[?] like this.

Me thinks this one is going to need some extra TLC to get her up and running if we can. This is what I would be doing...keep giving the Super B Complex, everyday, for her I would also try and get the Calcium into her even if you have to crush it and add it to some yogurt instead of the water. At this point, getting it into her is the important thing, not the vehicle of getting it there. You could also add some grit on top, like jimmies on ice cream. She'll either eat it or work around it, I got one of mine tricked into taking in the grit this way. Now she eats it on her own and gets snotty if the grit container isn't full, the brat, half full just isn't good enough for her! If you still have the Poly-Vi-Sol, take a small piece of bread and squirt the dosing onto it and feed it to her, once a day. I did this with full neuro involved Marek's birds and it did help them. This was before I learned that they usually do not come back from the 'roadrunner'. I did learn the vites will keep them alive but in the case I'm talking about, it wasn't a good thing. [oh, the things I've learned...] Anyways my thoughts are this...she has shown improvement, see if another little bit will be the push she needs to get her over the top and able to function more as she should be. Not being there to 'see' is hard but if she is going out and moving around at all is a good sign. Does she preen herself? With my Marek's birds, if I see them doing this, no matter how hopeless it may seem, they usually come back as normal as they can. It may take a while, but if they're worried about their feathers, they're not as bad as the appear.

yes she does preen herself, every day. That leash thing felt like a muscle almost, was not hollow, and that small part was another yoke. I had to cut it open and see. You could feel something else was in it. I wasn't expecting any eggs either, was very shocked to see it. yes I have the calcium and the polyvisol and I will give it to her this morning. She doesn't really like the polyvisol. I may just have to put it in her mouth. Whats the dosage I should use for that?

 

[Haunted55]

One thing I wanted to add about the Corid, but keep forgetting...The 1 tsp. dosing of the liquid 9.5% or the 1/2 tsp of the dry isn't the top dosing amount. You can give more but there are issues you need to be aware of. [I learned the hard way...of course] if given in higher amounts, or giving with the medicated feed, you run the risk of killing off all of the cocci that is really susceptible to lack of thiamine. "and this is a bad thing Deb????" Actually it is because it leaves room for the really bad and harder to kill cocci to take over. It is much better to do a 'kill' at the recommended dosing so no one of the coccidia can become the winner in this fight.

Most of you will already know this, but it's been nagging at me to bring it up. I had to learn the hard way and have birds who were damaged because of the fast kill method. Do they still lay? Oh sure, but sometimes there are traces of blood on the egg and they can have a harder time doing so. Good thing they don't know that their 'Momma' listened to bad advice and caused this by trying to help. Can't remember who posted this link originally, I'm thinking Casport, but it's a really good one about the Coccidiosis so I'll add it here.
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex4616