sick chick please help!

[AQHAchick22]

My chick looked the exact sme, about a month ago. I treated her with Corid and now she is fine. She was tired, unbalanced and had puffy, red eyes.

 

[leadwolf1]

I'm not going to battle with you chickened. I have had experiences that confirm what I am saying. I've had others have experiences that confirm what I am saying. I've had necropsies done that also confirm it. 35 years is a long time, may you continue to enjoy your chickens for years to come.

OP...as so eloquently stated by one of our esteemed collegues on another post...

In the end, you must decide what is the best advice for you and your flock.

Good luck with your chickens...please let us know how you and your chicken makes out

 

[seminolewind]

I'm not going to battle with you chickened. I have had experiences that confirm what I am saying. I've had others have experiences that confirm what I am saying. I've had necropsies done that also confirm it. 35 years is a long time, may you continue to enjoy your chickens for years to come.

OP...as so eloquently stated by one of our asteemed collegues on another post...

In the end, you must decide what is the best advice for you and your flock.

Good luck with your chickens...please let us know how you and your chicken makes out

Leadwolf, this post about types of coccidiosis reminds me about last year when your advice saved some of my hens after 3 died from coccidiosis. Without the bloody stool I really had a hard time trying to figure out what they had.

Gabrielle, if any other should look sick, I would jump for the Corrid.

 

[leadwolf1]

Seminolewind...I'm glad my advice helped. Things are changing and that includes alot of the diseases that we encounter with our flocks. We've both had enough experience in that area to last us a lifetime!

 

[CAjerseychick]

My 6 week old died the same day my DH went and got Sulmet (we are going to Tractor Supply tommorrow I will look for Corrid). Rest of the flock (14 six week olds, 3 eleven week olds) seem healthy,, feeding well, very active. They were on the Sulmet 2 days I am thinking it is ok to stop it?....

 

[leadwolf1]

Finish the treatment as instructed on the bottle. You never want to stop midpoint as it can lead to resistence. When you get to TSC, look in the cattle section, that's where you will find the Corid

 

[CAjerseychick]

Finish the treatment as instructed on the bottle. You never want to stop midpoint as it can lead to resistence. When you get to TSC, look in the cattle section, that's where you will find the Corid

OK, thanks...

 

[chickened]

I'm not going to battle with you chickened. I have had experiences that confirm what I am saying. I've had others have experiences that confirm what I am saying. I've had necropsies done that also confirm it. 35 years is a long time, may you continue to enjoy your chickens for years to come.

OP...as so eloquently stated by one of our esteemed collegues on another post...

In the end, you must decide what is the best advice for you and your flock.

Good luck with your chickens...please let us know how you and your chicken makes out

I re-read my posts and I am pretty sure I never said you were wrong... Actually I was never really talking to you either... I was giving advice requested by the OP before you began correcting me...I will say that giving treatment advice should rely on more than a picture of a bird that looks un-thrifty as there are about at least a couple dozen ailments that can make a chicken look like the one picture in the OP's post. I am unable to put out an accurate diagnosis from a picture so you have me on that one.

 

[seminolewind]

In June, I had some 8 week old Polish. One morning 2 are dead. There were NO symptoms the day before. When I picked them up to bury them, blood poured out. But there was not a spot anywhere in their little coop or pen. The next morning, another one. Again no symptoms the day before.

That's when Leadwolf said put them on Corrid. I had no more deaths after that.

In doing alot of reading, I read that a chicken can have symptoms only hours before they die. And they can also not have bloody stool but hemmorhage at the very end.

As Leadwolf and I know, whatever disease a chicken might have, there are the classic symptoms, which everybody knows, then there's all the non-classic symptoms which people do not know about and never guess it was the illness because it didn't have the classic symptoms.

In anything, my own "policy" is to think simple. Because 9 times out of 10 it's a common ailment.
Think about whether they got sick from another chicken. If there are no new chickens, then it most likely something that is in the vicinity; coccidiosis, poison, injury, nutrition, etc. Most diagnosis is made by eliminating the causes that it can't be, and end up with a few it could be. Or a necropsy when you can't figure it out.

Sorry, I'm just rambling. I tend to do that now and then.

 

[chickened]

In June, I had some 8 week old Polish. One morning 2 are dead. There were NO symptoms the day before. When I picked them up to bury them, blood poured out. But there was not a spot anywhere in their little coop or pen. The next morning, another one. Again no symptoms the day before.

That's when Leadwolf said put them on Corrid. I had no more deaths after that.

In doing alot of reading, I read that a chicken can have symptoms only hours before they die. And they can also not have bloody stool but hemmorhage at the very end.

As Leadwolf and I know, whatever disease a chicken might have, there are the classic symptoms, which everybody knows, then there's all the non-classic symptoms which people do not know about and never guess it was the illness because it didn't have the classic symptoms.

In anything, my own "policy" is to think simple. Because 9 times out of 10 it's a common ailment.
Think about whether they got sick from another chicken. If there are no new chickens, then it most likely something that is in the vicinity; coccidiosis, poison, injury, nutrition, etc. Most diagnosis is made by eliminating the causes that it can't be, and end up with a few it could be. Or a necropsy when you can't figure it out.

Sorry, I'm just rambling. I tend to do that now and then.

Thinking simple is what led me to find that when I find no bloody poop in the pens it is usually because the other birds eat it like candy. Also when a bird is so far gone they quit eating and consequently they quit pooping usually right before you put them in a separate pen.

Flock history, considering the symptoms, post mortem exams and lab work are the basics for diagnosis. Watching your birds from a distance, identify the effected birds, keep track of the birds that die and check the birds over physically for smells, sounds and discharges.

The OP said the birds tummy was making sounds which is probably respiratory sounds which are not a symptom of cocci and the fact a chicken does not have a stomach makes me think it is something else.