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Survival rate is low.
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Survival rate is low.
Make sure to deep clean everything the chicks use and make sure to wash your hands and change any clothes you went to the chicks with before going to your main flock or else they might catch it.
If it is IBV, there is no treatment.
If they were mine I would:
Do you have a scale you can weigh them
- get them in a warm brooder, 80-85 degrees is ideal.
- give warmed fluids orally via a tube. Give 2-3 ml per 100 grams of body weight
- give toltrazuril orally at 20 mg/kg
- give corid orally at 20 mg/kg twice a day
I don't but I'll go buy one and buy corid right nowIf it is IBV, there is no treatment.
If they were mine I would:
Do you have a scale you can weigh them on?
- get them in a warm brooder, 80-85 degrees is ideal.
- give warmed fluids orally via a tube. Give 2-3 ml per 100 grams of body weight
- give toltrazuril orally at 20 mg/kg
- give corid orally at 20 mg/kg twice a day
Make sure to deep clean everything the chicks use and make sure to wash your hands and change any clothes you went to the chicks with before going to your main flock or else they might catch it.
Thank you! (I wouldn't have even commented if I knew all the experts were already helping (in a duplicate thread?!)) I think the link was just going off the back of the Corid package (that says "10mg amprolium/kg body weight"?) but I am assuming that's for calves and you all definitely know best for the chooks! Thanks for the info!Thanks for the link but you might want to know that the doses listed there are not correct.
Treating Coccidiosis with Corid, Amprol, AmproMed
The Correct Amprolium Dose
Treatment 20% Powder 9.6% Liquid For 3-5 days 1.5 teaspoons per gallon 2 teaspoons per gallon then for 7-14 days 1/3 teaspoon per gallon 1/2 teaspoon per gallon
When treating coccidisosis in my own birds I use the 0.024% severe outbreak dose for 5 days, then the 0.006% amount for 7-14 days. Since I use the liquid, I use 2 teaspoons per gallon for five days, then 1/2 teaspoon for 7-14 days.
The FDA, FARAD, and the mfg's say this:
"Administer at 0.012% in drinking water as soon as coccidiosis is diagnosed and continue for 3 days to 5 days (in severe outbreaks, give 0.024%); continue with 0.006% amprolium medicated water for an additional 1 week to 2 weeks. No other source of drinking water should be available to the birds during this time."
Source: http://www.farad.org/vetgram/ProductInfo.asp?byNada=033-165
When treating a bird for coccidiosis one can give an oral drench in addition to their medicated water. Here are the instructions:
9.6% liquid - Do not dilute
or
- Give 0.1 ml per pound of body weight orally once or twice a day for 1-3 days.
- 0.02 ml per 100 grams of body weight orally once or twice a day for 1-3 days.
20% powder - Mix 1/2 teaspoon powder with 2 teaspoons water.
or
- Give 0.34 ml per pound of body weight orally once or twice a day for 1-3 days.
- 0.07 ml per 100 grams of body weight orally once or twice a day for 1-3 days.
The directions above are the same when using any 9.6% liquid or 20% powder. Such products include Amprol, AmproMed, Amprolium 200, Amprid, CocciAid, etc.
Click here to learn how to give medications orally:
Safely Administering Oral Medications to All Poultry and Waterfowl
I'm already using baycox/toltrazuril which is a coccidiostat. Should I use both? That's what the vet recommended because it's fast acting and kills coccidia
Just take them to the vet.Where does it come from? I don't understand how no other chicks have been sick. No adults are sick. But these hatchlings are. Once they're weak.. I can't do anything regardless of how hard I try.
Hey, no worries. When I first joined BYC there was little to no correct amprolium dosing info and I have spent literally hundreds of hours scouring veterinary textbooks, the FARAD website, the FDA website, and manufacturer's websites for this.Thank you! (I wouldn't have even commented if I knew all the experts were already helping (in a duplicate thread?!)) I think the link was just going off the back of the Corid package (that says "10mg amprolium/kg body weight"?) but I am assuming that's for calves and you all definitely know best for the chooks! Thanks for the info!