Using 20% Corid as a Drench

[Fairview01]

Can you collect some fresh poop and have it tested at the nearest vet's office?

I realize this sounds very cold hearted. Although he is a very fine bird, one that I would definitely like to get some offspring from, his value to me is far less than a visit to.a veterinarian. I have the machine that made him. I can make another one perhaps a better one than he is. When doing exhibition poultry there's no place for a soft heart.

In the end however it looks like it may be coccidious. He's on his 3rd day of treatment and and is acting normal albeit it skinny. I kick myself for looking for the more complex problem than the simple one. He's almost a rooster by age so I dismissed that early on particularly since he was on medicated feed and was so old.

 

[Kiki]

For what it's worth...my regular dog vet does not see poultry but he will test some poop for me if I bring it in in a dish and only charges me about $15.
I don't bring the bird in.

 

[Kiki]

I hope the Corid helps him.

 

[casportpony]

How's he doing?

 

[Fairview01]

How's he doing?

Well he's still alive. Not anywhere close to bein breeding condition. He goes in the coop at night but refuses to go in during the day even though that's where i have feed. Put a bucket of feed outside and he seems to be having a fuller crop.

If he doesnt start turning around I'm gonna take all his girls away from him and give them to another man.

Strangest thing I've ever encountered in my short time with chickens. Eats and drinks well but loses weight.

 

[casportpony]

The panacur i used is for horses. The instructions i found searching said squeeze enough of the paste into the mouth equivalent to the size of a pea. Not very scientific but that was the only refernce i could find.

You said he was 8 pounds? You wanna try treating him again? The pea-sized amount you gave him contains ~25-30 mg fenbendazole, which is nowhere near enough to treat any worm. If you want to treat all worms that he might have, you need to give ~0.23 ml per pound of body weight for five consecutive days.

 

[Kiki]

Have you decided to deworm him again with the correct dose?

 

[Fairview01]

@Kiki Leaving well enough alone at the moment. Treated him for a week with the 20mg/kg more or less, probably consistently a little on the heavier side. He's gaining weight, coloring up on the comb and wattles, active and crowing again. As weird as it sounds he no longer dull looking in the eye. Since he's a Louisiana cornish relocated to Texas I'm wondering if the coccidious resident here is a variety he's not been exposed too.

I'm thrilled he seems to have turned the corner. He's a heck of a bird and might just get some chicks off him before the end of February.