sick poult help please :( :(

[thaiturkey]

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I'm very sorry.

Have you got any other poultry there that might be the cause of this?

 

[Frosty]

I am sorry for you loss, it is heart breaking.

Did you diagnose based on the droppings, a necropsy, or was there a veterinary diagnosis? I ask because the yellow droppings can be caused by things other than blackhead, and I have never seen blood listed as a symptom.

If you did a necropsy, here is a page that shows the liver from a bird infected with Histomoniasis (blackhead): http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12150_12220-26481--,00.html

Unless it was confirmed by a veterinarian, I am wondering if it's coccidiosis? Here is a page with information on that, and I am copying one paragraph that stood out to me (it's under the section '7.12 Turkey Coccidios'): http://compepid.tuskegee.edu/syllabi/pathobiology/pathology/avianmed/chapter7.html

2. E . adenoeides
After the 4th day of infection droppings become fluid, contain mucus and a small amount of blood. By the 6th or 7th day, feces are composed almost entirely of yellow cheesy exudate.

A severe enteritis in the lower small intestine, ceca and large intestine. The infection may result in up to 100% mortality in young poults. Death occurs late on the fifth day and continues at least through the seventh day after infection.

Disregard if the diagnosis was from a veterinarian, I just wanted to point out other possibilities... Hope the rest of the poults do ok!

 

[spish]

sadly today all remaining poults are exhibiting the same symptoms and the medicine ive order will not be here until monday so im gonna loose them all. i based the blackhead theory on the droppings and other symptoms..it seemed to fit blackhead more than cocci (and i presumed if it was cocci that my chicks and chickens would also display symptoms?) it seems to move very fast. from first visable symptoms (droopyness, lethargic, darkened skin (yes ive now seen darkened skin under the feathers), runny poops and closed eyes) to death is under 24 hours.

im too squeemish to do a necropsy and cannot afford to send one off to the vets so i dont know what to do from here.

 

[spish]

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I'm very sorry.

Have you got any other poultry there that might be the cause of this?

i have chickens and ducks

 

[kuntrygirl]

i am so very sorry to hear that. i wish that we could get a handle on this disease and control and stop it. this really saddens me.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

Call your vet and ask for some metronidazole!!! Or go to a pet store and get Fish Zole (which is just metronidazole). It's not that expensive, and you just treat their water for 5 days. They should start turning around within a day of treatment. GO GET IT NOW!!

 

[Frosty]

In the link that I sent you:

All kinds of fowls. Coccidia itself is species specific.

So what affects your turkeys may not affect your other birds. When you say that the skin is darkening, are you talking about on the head or on the body? I have seen some articles that say that sometimes the skin on the head darkens, and others say that the head doesn't turn black and that it's unknown where the common name of blackhead comes from. I have no experience with it, so I don't know. Pretty much anything affecting the liver will give you that color poop, and the rest of the symptoms (droopiness, lethargic, etc...) is about the same for every illness that they get. When a turkey gets sick, they droop, have ruffled feathers, and huddle.

I am not saying that what you have is not blackhead, just saying that it could be something else. Is there anyone who could open one for you and you could post pics?

Do you have earthworms there? Just wondering because you mentioned a storm, and here when it rains the worms come out. There are a few diseases that earthworms can carry. Some folks spread lime where they keep the turkeys, I think it keeps the worms away or something?

I am really sorry about your little ones!