Sick chick Cocci? Bloated crop, please help

[LisaWaring]

You’re amazing! Thank you! I’m going to try it all!

Hi, your chick definitely looks like she could have Cocci, but I think all
sick chickens look like that-the poops will be the tell taleSign. I’m all for natural treatment and herbs, I feed my chicks herbs everyday, but at this stage the only thing that can help her for Cocci is Corid, and lots of it-the drench. Do you have other chicks that she is in a brooder with? If so you should definitely treat them all bc it’s so easily spread.
My chick was only about 2.5 weeks old when she got sick, super tiny!, but she pulled through. I think I noticed the symptoms fairly early on, which helps. Your girl looks a bit bigger so that’s on her side as well.
I’m no expert, I haven’t kept chickens in 20 years or more until these chicks, but what I did worked for me and I hope it works for you too. I read EVERYTHING I could find, lots of talk about Cocci but not much about what it does to the crop. Luckily before I got the chicks I also did an extensive amount of reading and listened to probably 80+ hrs of chicken podcasts! I was driving my kids crazy...but I’m doing so I knew what I was most likely looking at when I saw it, thank goodness. From what I’ve gathered as long as she’s not just pooping tons of blood, she’s most likely not too far gone, and you should start seeing improvement soon. I saw some within 6 hrs, and it continued slowly-day 2-3 had me a little worried bc I thought she may be backsliding since improvement seemed to plateau, but the next day was much better. I think around day 5-6 was when she really started to act more like herself, however the puffed up stance lingered for a while. All said and done it was maybe 10-12 days before she looked completely “normal” again.

More about the poops.... my chick was pooping the whole time-I think a blocked or impacted crop May change that. Her poops were VERY watery at first bc she wasn’t eating much, but they gradually started to have pieces of what looked like normal chicken poop in them-intermingled with some of the yellow seedy looking stuff/blood streaks/white/mucus until eventually this went away as well. I cheered every time I saw a semi
Normal poo!
When I got the chicks I decided not to do the medicated feed and slowly introduce them the grass clumps from outside, I think this was a mistake. 2 days after exposure to their first piece of grass from the yard, this happened. As I said, I’m very natural leaning, but I felt really guilty and was questioning my decision a lot. My daughter (and myself!) had become very attached to these chicks, the sick one being our favorite.
I know this is rambling, just trying to get out everything I can that may help. I felt totally desperate for help when I was going through what you are now. Luckily my husband was willing to drive 2 hrs to procure the Corid! It was all
Sold out locally. Please let me
Know how your girl is doing, I hope better!

 

[LisaWaring]

You’re amazing! Thank you! I’m going to try it all!

One more thing I should add, I kept a small
Light on above the food and water so
She could see it all
Night because at first she was getting up every 30min-hr to have a few pecks of food and a drink. I also mixed some medicated feed with her organic starter at this point.

 

[carmensue10]

One more thing I should add, I kept a small
Light on above the food and water so
She could see it all
Night because at first she was getting up every 30min-hr to have a few pecks of food and a drink. I also mixed some medicated feed with her organic starter at this point.

Thank you! I am so elated this morning! She is eating on her own for the first time in 3 days!

 

[LisaWaring]

Thank you! I am so elated this morning! She is eating on her own for the first time in 3 days!

Yey!!! Good news! after the Corid treatment she will need supplements, I am using a Vitamin E and Poultry drench, I did the Poultry drench in their water for I think a week after the treatment, and the vitamin E mixed into (coconut)yogurt that I added extra probiotics, and honey (otherwise they dodntto. I was giving this every morning for about a week, now im doing it 3 times a week. I give an herb salad in the morning too, oregano, parsley, fennel, mint-stuff I have in my garden, I added some chopped
Chick weed and dandelion too. Some people
Say apple cider vinegar added to their water for probiotics, but I think after Cocci this could be a little harsh since their GI tract has sustained damage, so I haven’t done this but do the yogurt and probiotic powder instead. Maybe in a few weeks ill
Add this from time to
Time.
So glad your chick is improving!

 

[LisaWaring]

Yey!!! Good news! after the Corid treatment she will need supplements, I am using a Vitamin E and Poultry drench, I did the Poultry drench in their water for I think a week after the treatment, and the vitamin E mixed into (coconut)yogurt that I added extra probiotics, and honey (otherwise they dodntto. I was giving this every morning for about a week, now im doing it 3 times a week. I give an herb salad in the morning too, oregano, parsley, fennel, mint-stuff I have in my garden, I added some chopped
Chick weed and dandelion too. Some people
Say apple cider vinegar added to their water for probiotics, but I think after Cocci this could be a little harsh since their GI tract has sustained damage, so I haven’t done this but do the yogurt and probiotic powder instead. Maybe in a few weeks ill
Add this from time to
Time.
So glad your chick is improving!

Sorry for the typos, that was supposed to say otherwise they didn’t like the taste-of the yogurt with the E in it

 

[carmensue10]

Sorry for the typos, that was supposed to say otherwise they didn’t like the taste-of the yogurt with the E in it

Hey!!! I wanted to update you on the chick since it had been several days. The coccidiosis is definitely gone! She started having consistently normal poops starting Monday. And just when I thought she was out of the woods, she came down with a respiratory infection. So she is on day 3 of Denegard and today I see a night and day difference. She is keeping her eyes open for the first time in 1.5 weeks. Eating dry feed and drinking on her own! She has been separated from her flock mates for this long and now I’m prepared to keep her separated for months if I have to. I want her to get really strong and big like the others to prevent them picking on her.