Sick 6 week old chicks

[neoelite]

I have 13 chickens. 5 hens, 4 8-week olds and 4 6-week olds. My problem started with one of the youngest ones. She randomly became extremely sick overnight; totally lethargic, wouldn’t eat or drink on her own, and had wet, runny, green/white poop. I immediately isolated her and began nursing her back to health, hand feeding her hard boiled egg yolk and guiding her head to water. After 4-5 days of this and what seemed like little progress, I woke up one morning to her acting normal. I integrated her with her sisters again and everything was perfect for about a week. However, now 2 more of my girls from the youngest flock are very sick with identical symptoms. This time it’s actually even worse for one of them, she appears to be seizing or something I will post a video to show. They have both been eating the hard boiled egg yolk and drinking electrolyte water, so T this point i’m just confused as to what’s going on and what to do to stop it. Sorry for the long post but any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[SandyRiverChick]

So sorry you're dealing with this! Any chance you think it's Coccidiosis? It's the typical age for that and you can solve for it with Corid. I'll post instructions as well as Drench dosing the sick one (s). What are you feeding them?

 

[neoelite]

So sorry you're dealing with this! Any chance you think it's Coccidiosis? It's the typical age for that and you can solve for it with Corid. I'll post instructions as well as Drench dosing the sick one (s). What are you feeding them?

I wasn’t sure if it was or not, I really don’t think it could be as i’ve been feeding them medicated crumble feed since I got them. Once they showed signs of illness I feed them hard boiled egg yolk. Is there any negative side effects if I give them Corid and it ends up lot being Coccidosis.

 

[SandyRiverChick]

Medicated feed does not prevent Coccidiosis. No negative side effects of Corid.
Start all on Corid and give sick ones a Corid drench. If you're dealing with Coccidiosis, they'll improve quickly. Make sure that you're not giving anything extra like vitamins. Just water and feed.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/corid-oral-drench-instructions.1211991/

 

[neoelite]

Medicated feed does not prevent Coccidiosis. No negative side effects of Corid.
Start all on Corid and give sick ones a Corid drench. If you're dealing with Coccidiosis, they'll improve quickly. Make sure that you're not giving anything extra like vitamins. Just water and feed.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/corid-oral-drench-instructions.1211991/

Okay thank you so much! I’m going to get on this immediately. Update: just bought the Corid and am about to start the treatment. Thanks again. Will update soon.

 

[neoelite]

Medicated feed does not prevent Coccidiosis. No negative side effects of Corid.
Start all on Corid and give sick ones a Corid drench. If you're dealing with Coccidiosis, they'll improve quickly. Make sure that you're not giving anything extra like vitamins. Just water and feed.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/corid-oral-drench-instructions.1211991/

Hey! Quick update; I gave both sick chicks an oral drench for today and added diluted water to their and all the other chickens water. One of the sick chicks is much worse off than the other. After giving the oral drench, one of them was quick to drink more of the diluted water and ate a little bit of crumble. She also is showing better signs of life. The other sick chick on the other hand doesn’t look as good. After administering the oral drench, I tried to get her to drink a little of the diluted water but she barely drank. I also tried guiding her to crumble but her beak just rested in it and she didn’t eat anything. She has just been laying on her side, asleep, with little to no movement. She is also the one who I observed having seizure like symptoms. She isn’t looking too good for her but I’m going to continue to watch & treat her.

 

[SandyRiverChick]

Can't hurt and sure hope that solves the problem though I can't be sure Coccidiosis is the problem. What are you feeding them? Make sure you don't give anything other than their chick feed (assuming you are using commercial feed, chick starter.)

 

[neoelite]

Can't hurt and sure hope that solves the problem though I can't be sure Coccidiosis is the problem. What are you feeding them? Make sure you give anything other than their chick feed (assuming you are using commercial feed, chick starter.

Can't hurt and hope that solves the I can't be sure is the problem. What are you feeding them? Make sure you don't give anything other than their chick feed (assuming you are using commercial feed, chick start

Up until now when I noticed when they were sick, I just hand-fed hard boiled egg yolk since it worked for me the first time in reviving my first sick chick. However, now that they are taking Corid and since you told me, I am stopping that and will only feed them their medicated crumble feed. I’m going to run into the problem of them having difficulty eating it by itself though, do you think it’s okay for me to make a mash with the crumble and mix it water?

 

[neoelite]

Can't hurt and sure hope that solves the problem though I can't be sure Coccidiosis is the problem. What are you feeding them? Make sure you don't give anything other than their chick feed (assuming you are using commercial feed, chick starter.)

update: about 3-4 hours since oral drench. The girls aren’t doing too well. Very little activity from both. They also look identical right now in their resting position; not sure if it’ll give any hints as to what they’re dealing with. They’re both still breathing, but barely. Not sure if they’re going to make it through the night.

 

[SandyRiverChick]

Oh that looks very bad. Are they under too much heat? I'm so sorry but it could be too late here. For the record, yes, adding water to feed will encourage them to eat it.