Please please help!

[589205]

I posted this morning. Lost a white leghorn and had some blood and diahrea around her when I found her. I started treating the rest of them right away thinking it’s Coccidiosis. Two more of the white Leghorns started acting ill... one vomiting up water every time she’d drink. I separated them from the rest. Both lethargic. Was hoping Corid and electrolytes were helping... seemed to be. And tonight... another one dead! Diahrea... around. If Corid isn’t helping, what else can I do!? What would strike and kill SO fast!? I mean, if they were gonna die so quickly, shouldn’t I have been seeing large amounts of blood and really sick chickens for a couple days? This seems to have come on fast! Should I treat for worms? What else? Please help!!! I have put SO much work into these chickens and they JUST started laying, and I can’t believe they are dying and I don’t even know why!!!

Don't mix Corid with the electolytes. You're supposed to use those after Corid treatments. How old are your birds & what percentage of Corid did you use?

 

[thepick4uchicks]

Don't mix Corid with the electolytes. You're supposed to use those after Corid treatments. What percentage of Corid are you using?

How come you cannot give them together?

 

[thepick4uchicks]

Don't mix Corid with the electolytes. You're supposed to use those after Corid treatments. What percentage of Corid are you using?

I don’t follow that reasoning.

 

[thepick4uchicks]

The ONLY outward symptom... vomiting water back up... diahrea. What else would cause this? What can I go get tomorrow at Tractor Supply?

Nancie,
I reached out to another very experienced chicken keeper just moments ago. I know it’s in the middle of the night but she will respond early in the morning to you I am sure. She is Wyorpp Rock. You will get good advice from her to help you with your situation here and not have questions on top of more questions in the end. She will have an answer about the electrolytes also.
Pam

 

[589205]

By mixing the Corid & electrolytes together I would assume that it would cause the Corid to not be as effective

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Sometimes you'll need to add Sulfa with the Corid dosed water for coccidiosis. I was treating with Corid after losing a pullet, and then started noticing blood in stools. I was told to get a Sulfa drug asap. I was able to get Bird Sulfa that day and mixed the appropriate amount with the Corid water. My birds showed improvements quickly after that.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Corid is a thiamine blocker. The electrolytes have thiamine. So you're nixing the work Corid has done by adding back in, what it's blocking.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Coccidia protoza needs B1 (thiamine) to thrive. Corid blocks thiamine (B1). Electrolytes add B1, which you don't want when trying to battle coccidia

 

[sourland]

Is there any possibility that your birds may have ingested poison of any sort ?

 

[thepick4uchicks]

By mixing the Corid & electrolytes together I would assume that it would cause the Corid to not be as effective

Gotcha. I have just worked in healthcare and I cannot follow that pharmaceutical logic. However, their might be something to it. I would just have to have some basis for it explained to me because usually electrolytes aid with dehydration and allow a bird to maintain good body chemistry panels which would allow it to live and his internal linings of its guts to withstand a better treatment from the medicine and tolerated the side effects of the medicine I would think and give it a fighting chance against it and the disease or infectious process.