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TillyPeeps said:
I wish that I can move my 3-week olds to coop, but DH hasn't finished it yet. I stayed awake till midnight last night, not because of my chicks but a hyper toddler who's not used to the daylight saving hours.
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I can't even imagine having kids right now, respect to you! My SO is very very techy (which is extremely useful in its own right) so I'm usually the one playing handyman (not that I'm any good at it, because I'm not) when things need to be built/worked on. I still have a lot to learn though, power tools are intimidating. I have a couple GREAT teachers though who are giving me a hand with it!
 
TillyPeeps said:
This morning, I found Ruff-Ruff pooped with blood in it. It's not diarrhea and looks like this one but less blood:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/988739/blood-in-poop

She was very active and cuddled with me as usual. So I assume this is shed intestinal lining instead of coccidiosis? I have added Corid in their water (1/2 tsp/ gallon), since I saw red in Penny's poop two weeks ago and Penny was weak and small. By the way, Penny is active now and starts to catch up.
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Because the Corid dosage is only for preventing not treating cocci, should I add more corid in their water to be safe? Or should I just keep the preventing dosage longer? I was going to stop giving them Corid in a couple days.
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I would treat just in case, is your starter currently medicated or unmedicated? Cocci is one of the most common illnesses affecting young poultry so it would be better to be safe than sorry! I would run a preventative dosage for 4 days and monitor them closely for the other symptoms (lethargic, lack of interest in eating/drinking)
 
LeBlackbird said:
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I can't even imagine having kids right now, respect to you! My SO is very very techy (which is extremely useful in its own right) so I'm usually the one playing handyman (not that I'm any good at it, because I'm not) when things need to be built/worked on. I still have a lot to learn though, power tools are intimidating. I have a couple GREAT teachers though who are giving me a hand with it!
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Enjoy your kid-free time! You'll miss it one day.
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I'm just as unhandy as it can be, and power tools make me nervous. If I know how difficult to make DH do his work, I would just buy a shed instead of let him make me a coop.
 
LeBlackbird said:
I would treat just in case, is your starter currently medicated or unmedicated? Cocci is one of the most common illnesses affecting young poultry so it would be better to be safe than sorry! I would run a preventative dosage for 4 days and monitor them closely for the other symptoms (lethargic, lack of interest in eating/drinking)
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They are having organic chick starter that is unmedicated. Ok, I'll just continue the preventative dosage and watch them for now.

She flight to roost on my arm for a cuddling time this morning. Doesn't look sick at all.
 
TillyPeeps said:
This morning, I found Ruff-Ruff pooped with blood in it. It's not diarrhea and looks like this one but less blood:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/988739/blood-in-poop

She was very active and cuddled with me as usual. So I assume this is shed intestinal lining instead of coccidiosis? I have added Corid in their water (1/2 tsp/ gallon), since I saw red in Penny's poop two weeks ago and Penny was weak and small. By the way, Penny is active now and starts to catch up.
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Because the Corid dosage is only for preventing not treating cocci, should I add more corid in their water to be safe? Or should I just keep the preventing dosage longer? I was going to stop giving them Corid in a couple days.
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Corid is a very safe med, I think I would continue the preventative dose a bit longer. If any chick seems lethargic, Then double the dosage to the treatment level. It's not on the label, but I usually give a few drops of Corid directly into their mouth (not much, it's strong undiluted). By the time I notice they re sometimes pretty far gone and that is my "cure 'em or kill 'em" treatment. So far, it's effected some miraculous recoveries, but some were too far gone. Your chicks are lucky that you observe them so closely and catch things like this very early, it should never come to that at your house.

I hate coccidosis, mostly because it is a personal indictment that I have been lax in cleaning the brooders. I always seems to happen (at least advanced, life threatening cases) in brooders that are too crowded that I let get dirty. I can't wait for it to finally get permanently warm so I can get more young ones out on pasture. I've never had a chicken get sick in warm weather outside on grass, grass under their feet is wonderful for them in many ways.

(weather report has lows of 26 this weekend, yikes!!)

Come on spring !!
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TillyPeeps said:
They are having organic chick starter that is unmedicated. Ok, I'll just continue the preventative dosage and watch them for now.

She flight to roost on my arm for a cuddling time this morning. Doesn't look sick at all.
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You should get some videos of your chicks interacting with you - they grow up so fast, then all you will have is the memory of when they were little.
 
TillyPeeps said:
They are having organic chick starter that is unmedicated. Ok, I'll just continue the preventative dosage and watch them for now.

She flight to roost on my arm for a cuddling time this morning. Doesn't look sick at all.
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I've had young birds (0-8 weeks) go from fine to dead in 48 hours. 4ish years ago I had a disease outbreak that nearly wiped out my whole grow out pen (4-5 month old birds). Symptoms were yellow-greenish diarrhea, loss of appetite, weight loss, facial discoloration. I began treating with antibiotics and electrolytes suspecting Cholera. Nothing got better so I paid to ship one of the bodies to have an autopsy and tests at a lab near us, turns out we have a really aggressive strain of cocci in the area that was supposedly carried down by migrating canada geese. I was shocked/clueless! The classic symptom (bloody stool) was never present and the birds were almost young adults so I never even suspected cocci. As soon as I put them on amprolium the problem stopped almost instantly. I don't mess around with Cocci anymore!
 
LeBlackbird said:
I've had young birds (0-8 weeks) go from fine to dead in 48 hours. 4ish years ago I had a disease outbreak that nearly wiped out my whole grow out pen (4-5 month old birds). Symptoms were yellow-greenish diarrhea, loss of appetite, weight loss, facial discoloration. I began treating with antibiotics and electrolytes suspecting Cholera. Nothing got better so I paid to ship one of the bodies to have an autopsy and tests at a lab near us, turns out we have a really aggressive strain of cocci in the area that was supposedly carried down by migrating canada geese. I was shocked/clueless! The classic symptom (bloody stool) was never present and the birds were almost young adults so I never even suspected cocci. As soon as I put them on amprolium the problem stopped almost instantly. I don't mess around with Cocci anymore!
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OK, if anyone doesn't act normal, I'll double the dosage for safe.
 
dheltzel said:
You should get some videos of your chicks interacting with you - they grow up so fast, then all you will have is the memory of when they were little.
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My problem is: When I open the brooder door, both Ruff-Ruff and Brownie will fly to roost on my arms now.
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I don't an extra hand to run the camcorder. I did take lots of photos though, but not when they cuddling with me. Yes, chicks grow really fast. Two legbars already start growing crest feathers. Everyone is friendly now and will let me pet them, but only Ruff-Ruff and Brownie fly to me all the time.
 

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