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OK, so I have had my flock at home for just over a week.
The second day I had them, one hen was visably lethargic. She and the other chickens had mushy poo, normal colors according the to poo page though.
I put her in a separate enclosure, gave her electrolytes, no improvement. Her symptoms matched Coccidiosis from what I read, so I began treating the entire flock and her for it with Corid. I also gave her some yogurt mashed in with food. She got worse and passed away on Saturday. The night before I noticed her crop felt big for her not eating much. The day she died it was very swollen.
Since I had the rest of the flock started on the Corid I decided to do the five days on it. They have all been doing great, eating, active etc.
Four chickens, my silkies, are having solid poos.
However, my RIR hen and my maran hen are still squirting. Maybe my silkie roos too, haven't watched them go recently. The poo is normal color, gritty texture in it, but very liquid. It has the white bit for the urea. It makes a squirty sound when they poo. They are still doing the cecal poos occasionally too.
I notice the RIR hen lays down occasionally, even while foraging today once, still with alert head and watching everybody, and even eating. So that struck me as different than the other chickens but I'm still new to this so not sure if a concern or not.
I gave them electrolytes in their water today to help in case dehydration was a problem.
So what is going on? What should I do?
The second day I had them, one hen was visably lethargic. She and the other chickens had mushy poo, normal colors according the to poo page though.
I put her in a separate enclosure, gave her electrolytes, no improvement. Her symptoms matched Coccidiosis from what I read, so I began treating the entire flock and her for it with Corid. I also gave her some yogurt mashed in with food. She got worse and passed away on Saturday. The night before I noticed her crop felt big for her not eating much. The day she died it was very swollen.
Since I had the rest of the flock started on the Corid I decided to do the five days on it. They have all been doing great, eating, active etc.
Four chickens, my silkies, are having solid poos.
However, my RIR hen and my maran hen are still squirting. Maybe my silkie roos too, haven't watched them go recently. The poo is normal color, gritty texture in it, but very liquid. It has the white bit for the urea. It makes a squirty sound when they poo. They are still doing the cecal poos occasionally too.
I notice the RIR hen lays down occasionally, even while foraging today once, still with alert head and watching everybody, and even eating. So that struck me as different than the other chickens but I'm still new to this so not sure if a concern or not.
I gave them electrolytes in their water today to help in case dehydration was a problem.
So what is going on? What should I do?
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