***PLEASE*** HELP!!! Very sick Jersey Giant Rooster!!!!

[thompsonfarm]

I always have acv in their water.

 

[thompsonfarm]

I can't view your signature on a mobile site

 

[jesusR]

a bath wont kill sick chicken but if you put him out in the cold it will i bath them in the summer when it's nice and hot and give him milk with bread this will naturally worm him i do these to my birds every 2months this way they dont have worms and put garlic in the water every two weeks and they dont get sick that easy

 

[casportpony]

a bath wont kill sick chicken but if you put him out in the cold it will i bath them in the summer when it's nice and hot and give him milk with bread this will naturally worm him i do these to my birds every 2months this way they dont have worms and put garlic in the water every two weeks and they dont get sick that easy

A bath can kill a sick chicken, even on the warmest of days.

 

[casportpony]

My chickens had alot of those symptoms one time and i found out that they had worms. I would recomend using Wazine17. It worked within 4 days.

Hope this helps

Wazine works for on just roundworms. I would use Safeguard.

 

[cowcreekgeek]

I always have acv in their water.

Good to hear on the ACV, and sorry to hear on the mobile ... makes researching more difficult, which I'd be glad to cut 'n paste infromations w/in posts. And, I'm sure casportpony will, as well.

The toxins are not as likely to be the cause, but the first two, followed up by the third, might help narrow the possibilities down:

Common Diseases of Chickens Turkeys & Gamebirds

Poultry Disease Diagnosis Based on Symptoms

The Merck Veterinary Manual

Solutions Used for Poultry

Diseases of Poultry
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[thompsonfarm]

Do you guys think its intestinal parasites? I'm not convinced and I certainly don't want to shock his body more with poisonous wormers

 

[cowcreekgeek]

Do you guys think its intestinal parasites? I'm not convinced and I certainly don't want to shock his body more with poisonous wormers

When first thinking of returning poultry to our farm, I was planning to follow the 'all natural' organic route, but have adjusted my approach quickly to include those treatments that have been proven to be both very safe and highly effective -- fenbendazole (for all worms but tapeworms) is on my shortest list, as it has been proven safe w/in sick birds, all the way up to 1,000 mg/kg (one full gram per kilogram) of body weight, which is fifty times higher than my well-documented suggestion to use 20 mg/kg* for three consecutive days, so as to be certain of 100% efficacy.

* based upon controlled clinical studies, most esp. one finding that 10mg/kg x 3 days is 100% effective against Ascaridia galli and Heterakis gallinarum, 15mg/kg x 3 days is req'd for complete removal of Railletina spp. and 20mg/kg x 3 days is effective against Snygamus trachea. Another study tests between 12.5 mg/kg and 25mg/kg, proving 100% efficacy against R. tetragona, but I have found no data testing any dosage level between 15mg/kg and 20mg/kg.

I've never seen fenbendazole kill a chicken, or anything else, but worms. However, in cases where the counts are extremely high, too many worms can die too quickly, which can be fatal.

 

[casportpony]

Do you guys think its intestinal parasites? I'm not convinced and I certainly don't want to shock his body more with poisonous wormers

Worms are not the problem, but de-worming is something that I do whenever I have a sick one, and I haven't killed one yet.

Have you dusted him with something other than DE yet?

Have you weighed him yet? He'll need to be weighed daily.

Is he warm enough?

TSC has both the wormer (Safeguard for Goats/Cattle) and the poultry dust.

 

[thompsonfarm]

I'm going to tsc today after work. He has no worm larva or segments (i looked under a microscope and i do know wgat to look for) in his stool thus far but I will worm him as we'll.