Sinking feeling about my flock...neighbor's diseases my problem?

[casportpony]

One can also give Corid as an oral drench. Get a 12ml or larger syringe, place 1/2 teaspoon Corid powder in the syringe (270mg amprolium), draw up to the 10ml mark, shake well. Now you have 10ml of concentrated Corid liquid. Each one ml has 27 grams and the dose to give as an oral drench is 20mg/kg (20mg per 2.2 pounds) and that works out to .74ml/kg or .074ml per 100 grams.

I give Corid as an oral drench when I suspect they aren't drinking enough and I give it in addition to their medicated water.

Let me know if my directions aren't clear enough.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

A trip to the vet is a good idea. Office vists here run $45-$65, gram stains $30-$35 and fecal floats are $20-$25. My vet will take a throat swab and a fecal sample, put them both on the same slide and charge for just one gram stain. Please, if you do go to the vet, get the gram stain, that will tell you if you have an infection.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

If you have pictures from your scope, send a PM to:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/u/109608/rbaker0345

They have experience looking at slides.

-Kathy

 

[subhanalah]

Isn't it the full moon? The full moon (at night after they've gone to roost, so you can catch them and medicate them while they are drowsy) is the best time to worm, allegedly.

 

[dawg53]

Isn't it the full moon? The full moon (at night after they've gone to roost, so you can catch them and medicate them while they are drowsy) is the best time to worm, allegedly.

Allegedly.... a myth.

 

[subhanalah]

Allegedly.... a myth. 

I don't know I do know that molluscs removed from their home beds will shift to the moon/tide cycle of where they are transplanted.
I don't think I would be so dismissive of it.

 

[dawg53]

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Perhaps you should start a thread on this subject in the Random Ramblings section.

 

[subhanalah]

Perhaps you should start a thread on this subject in the Random Ramblings section.

it's pertinent in this discussion. Why start a thread that will just die and the OP here won't see it?

 

[dawg53]

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Mollusks have nothing to do with the OP's chciken problems....apples and oranges.

 

[Eggcessive]

My vet is never open past noon on Saturdays, and hard to get in. How are the chicks today? Are you seeing any more blood in droppings? Are you taking in a stool sample? Have they been on soil very long to get worms?