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[kelielliott]

Three of our new silkie babies! Love them!

 

[kelielliott]

Ok, last post. Another picture of the silkie trio and our new smooth sizzle silkie babies.

 

[NanaKat]

@NanaKat Love the picture! Poor little grandkids worried about their Nana :-(
Ummm, and yea....when Roger's done there send him on to my house. I promise not to keep him too awful long before I send him off to the next on the list.
Great husband! They have a way of really coming through for us, don't they? Kinda' makes up for the times they're a PITA

 

[lonnyandrinda]

GAAAAAAH! I just had my first BAD case of coccidosis. I can't believe how AWFUL this is! I've never had to deal with this before, because I keep my babies inside and change their bedding regularly, so I don't know how this happened. One day they're perping and peeping and happy babies, and the next day I found the first body... then another the day after... then another the day after that. I couldn't figure out what was killing them until the third died, and that's when I found BLOOD speckling their bedding! I'm just beside myself that they had to suffer before I realized what it was. So once the blood appears, that's a sign that it's really bad, right? This was two days ago, and I immediately started them on Corid and have been changing the bedding daily, and haven't lost any since then. Do they have a good chance of recovery? These babies are only 4-6 weeks old.

I know I hear about people dealing with this all the time, so I shouldn't beat myself up since I've been hatching all this time and never had to deal with it before, but I just HATE when I'm responsible for some poor little baby's pain. I had just cleaned out the storage room and set up room in there for them, so I'm wondering if it's something about that room. It was overcrowded with stored junk for a long time, so I had to clean out signs of mice. If a mouse got in there with them to eat the food, could that have caused coccidosis? OMG, now I'm just sick over that thought.

Don't feel so bad. I doubt it was the room. Coccidiosis is an organism found in the soil. You may have introduced it to them on your hands after gardening. As long as they are well enough to drink they should recover. If any are not drinking syringe some medicated water in their crop every few hours until they drink on their own.

 

[artsyrobin]

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cocci is EVERYWHERE, and from what i have heard, this year has been very bad, with the damp summer- so quit beating yourself up- i have lost a whole hatch to it last year- easy to keep blaming yourself- medicated feed helps, but recently i heard treat 5 days, then wait 5 days and treat again, not sure if that does any good- but have heard it over and over- another suggestion, sounds gross, but a mama hen with chicks seldom has cocci issues, because babies nibble the poop and build an immunity- so if they are brooder raised, bring them some dirt and litter from the main coop so they can build an immunity to the area they will be.... Note to self, when all of the guineas and ducks are staring under the car.... don't get on your hands and knees to see what they are looking at! Yep.... nose to nose with a corn snake...LOL! The poor thing slithered away with a line of guineas and ducks following it!

 

[ashtree]

Ok, last post. Another picture of the silkie trio and our new smooth sizzle silkie babies.

Lots of cuties! Right now its looking like the white is your only boy. That could certainly change tho and it often does over and over again!

 

[Sagetown]

cocci is EVERYWHERE, and from what i have heard, this year has been very bad, with the damp summer- so quit beating yourself up- i have lost a whole hatch to it last year- easy to keep blaming yourself- medicated feed helps, but recently i heard treat 5 days, then wait 5 days and treat again, not sure if that does any good- but have heard it over and over- another suggestion, sounds gross, but a mama hen with chicks seldom has cocci issues, because babies nibble the poop and build an immunity- so if they are brooder raised, bring them some dirt and litter from the main coop so they can build an immunity to the area they will be....



Note to self, when all of the guineas and ducks are staring under the car.... don't get on your hands and knees to see what they are looking at! Yep.... nose to nose with a corn snake...LOL! The poor thing slithered away with a line of guineas and ducks following it!

cocci ; Yep; I experienced that with my last brooder chicks, and treated it right away, but my two hen raised clutches, 5 weeks, and 3 weeks, are going strong.

Good for you it was just a Corn Snake, and not a Copperhead. They tend to hold their ground, and strike.

 

[Kyzmette]

Thanks Rinda and Robin. I've never seen blood in the brooders like that before, and it made me lose my ever-lovin' mind. The remaining babies still seem to be doing okay, since I started them on the corid. It's not that they had coccidia,because iI've dealt with rusty poop before, but the degree to which they had it. It's like they went from just fine to dying, and then to OMG-LOOK-AT-ALL-THAT-BLOOD!


Chickens... always something new and horrible around the corner, and still worth it.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Note to self, when all of the guineas and ducks are staring under the car.... don't get on your hands and knees to see what they are looking at! Yep.... nose to nose with a corn snake...LOL! The poor thing slithered away with a line of guineas and ducks following it!

Thanks Rinda and Robin. I've never seen blood in the brooders like that before, and it made me lose my ever-lovin' mind. The remaining babies still seem to be doing okay, since I started them on the corid. It's not that they had coccidia,because iI've dealt with rusty poop before, but the degree to which they had it. It's like they went from just fine to dying, and then to OMG-LOOK-AT-ALL-THAT-BLOOD!


Chickens... always something new and horrible around the corner, and still worth it.

Remember, too- a little blood spread around looks like A LOT. And shed intestinal lining is red, too, so it may not have all been cocci blood. Glad you figured it out and they seem to be responding to treatment!

 

[kelielliott]

What could be causing Diarrhea without blood? Treatment suggestions?