Sick 8 week old chick

[clarsen5325]

My husband is going to the feed store right now to find it! Should I give that to all my birds the? Also she just woke up and is eating like a pig with both eyes open

 

[enola]

She is eating that is good. Yes, treat all of them. He will find Corid in the cattle medicine section. Call your husband and tell him. It will be a powder that you put in their drinking water. This should be their only source of water for them to drink for the next 7 days. Do not give them any vitamins during this time.

 

[clarsen5325]

Thank you so much! I hope she survives! She just ate and drank a lot but she can't stand up straight.

 

[clarsen5325]

Also, if they don't have that disease the Corid won't hurt right?

 

[justplainbatty]

Also, if they don't have that disease the Corid won't hurt right?

no, the Corid won't hurt. One thing that will help is to clean out the litter, keep new litter dry. Stir litter under heat lamp with litter that is cooler. Heat can help kill cocci.

 

[clarsen5325]

New sympoms: she keeps jerking her head around when she eats. What could that mean?

 

[justplainbatty]

She is eating that is good. Yes, treat all of them. He will find Corid in the cattle medicine section. Call your husband and tell him. It will be a powder that you put in their drinking water. This should be their only source of water for them to drink for the next 7 days. Do not give them any vitamins during this time.

Just for my own learning, I have heard that medicated feed depletes vitamins. Why would you with hold vitamins to a chick, not absorbing vitamins from cocci and now seems to have neurological symptoms? I would think something like polyvisol would be in order for that chick. School me please? TY
JPB

 

[enola]

Corid is a thiamine blocker, not an antibiotic. If you give a chick vitamins while treating with Corid, you will be feeding the coccicia.

 

[enola]

Medicated feed does not deplete vitamins in a chicks system.

 

[enola]

I do not know if the head jerking is significant or not.

casportpony can answer more questions than I can.