Raccoon attack, one dead, one missing, advice for survivors

[Gizabelle]

We just discovered a suspected raccoon attack on the chicks. Mixed flock of 6-7 week olds out in the run. Three pullets and two turkey poults. Found one turkey poult missing a head and one pullet gone without a trace.
The remaining pullets look fine, traumatized but fine. The remaining turkey looks pretty beat up. Limping, scratches and feathers missing from the head and neck. I brought the turk inside, and would normally offer vitamins/electrolytes, but the entire group is on day 4 of Corid.
Should I continue corid or break for vitamins/electrolytes and just start again after a few days recovery?

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[Callender Girl]

I honestly don't know the answer. Are you routinely treating with Corid as a preventative or because your flock has cocci? If it's the latter, I would certainly keep treating, but that's just me.

Do you have a country extension office or a university veterinary teaching hospital that you could contact for a better answer? I've done that when a vet was out of the question.

Good luck with your babies' recovery.

 

[Gizabelle]

I honestly don't know the answer. Are you routinely treating with Corid as a preventative or because your flock has cocci? If it's the latter, I would certainly keep treating, but that's just me.

Do you have a country extension office or a university veterinary teaching hospital that you could contact for a better answer? I've done that when a vet was out of the question.

Good luck with your babies' recovery.

Thank you for your reply.

We actually found the missing chickie! She came back to the coop an hour or so later. I forgot to mention yesterday that only the turk was still in the run when we came on the scene. We found the first two chicks under our house trying to stay near our FR hens.
It looks like all the chickies squeezed through the gate in a panic and the turk beat itself up trying to follow, but was too big to fit.
We ended up putting the turk back in the coop with the chicks last night. Still panicking, it just wouldn't settle by itself.
Luckily, the coop is pretty big, so everyone will have to stay in for a few days until we can reinforce the run.

I decided to stay on course with corid for now. (It was in response to questionable poops last week, rather than just a preventative kind of thing.)
If lil turk starts looking at all dumpy, I'll pull her back inside for TLC.

Thanks again.