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[Chickielady]

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You are shameless !

What will you do when they are all grown and outside ?

You need an incubator I am telling you !!!

 

[Chickielady]

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For Coccidiosis you need Amprolium, comes in several forms.
The durvet is a 'vechicle' I understand, in other words it is used to rehydrate, like gatoraide for chickens.
Sulpha drugs used to be the #1 choice for Cocci but the strains we see today have built up immunities to sulpha, hence we now use Amprolium.
Amprolium is the drug used in medicated chick starter, which all babies should be on as this lets them build immunities slowly as they are brroded, then allowed outdoors where they can contract the 'bugs' that cause cocci that are poo'd out by infected birds and eaten by others.
If your bird had this parasitic infection, she would have had horrible bloody diareah, how the 'bug' digs up the intestinal lining....
It does not mean all your birds will get it.
Clean is the word here, clean the floors, coop runs, everywhere she was, and especially where she poo'd.
Hope you are OK, I am onlinne late, probably too late to help anyone

 

[Chickielady]

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Get him a product at Walmart called "Omeprazole" which is a course of treatments that reduce acid.
Everytime I have an endoscopy or other invasion of the htroat or gut my stomach goes ape producing acid so bad I can taste it without belching...the Walmart "equate" brand of Omprazole works fantastic for me !

 

[Chickielady]

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OMG they are growing so fast ! They need to slow down and stop growing so fast !!!

 

[Chickielady]

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I think there maybe a few of us around Oly, but you really need to look into the city ordinances yourself.
Are you in the county, or the city, for instance ?

But Welcome to the peep show !

 

[Chickielady]

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Glad he's doing better. Stomach problems can be so hard to deal with. My son had H. Pylori a couple months back and missed quite a few days of school from it. It was hard to hear him crying and not be able to do much to help

My gastroenterologist thought I too had H. Pylori infection...due to my pain...bu after the endoscopy and $400 antibiotic treatment (that my insurance would not cover) the pains continued and worsened...and now we know it is celiac disease...and supposed to afflict 3 out of 5 people here.
Three out of Five is alot of people !!!!
I found out when I went on the Atkins diet, and stopped eating carbs...which meant no wheat...and man, my pain stopped !
The strept throat, allergies, rashes, blisters, "cold sores" are all part of it...STOPPED !
I went to see my primary care doc and told him I must have celiac disease and ya know what he said ? "must be your gallbladder or..."
And when I insisted he said "you do not have celiac disease, you know how rare that is "

As if rare means I could not have it ???
I had a biopsy of a blister on the elbow, which popped up now and then and have been thought to be allergies !
The biopsy confirmed.
And I feel so much better!!!!!!!!!!!My teeth have been rotten since childhood, all sorts of maladies...all due to mal-absorption through intestines that have been "fried" since birth as we did not know I had this disease.
You cannot feed the body if the gut will not be able to absorb.
You are also really hungry all the time as your body CRAVES nutrients it cannot get, and supplements do nothing but blow right through.
You are what goes through your intestines.
Enough of my rant, except, seriously consider celiac disease..the gut has very few nerves, you can do damage all your life and never know it.
Stop eating gluten for a few weeks, and see how good you feel, and lots of weight you loose too !

 

[Chickielady]

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you can buy it anywhere...I think it is either 1) prilosec or 2) zantac...can't remember, the point is the active ingredient is the Omeprazole, box usually has 2 or more treatments in it.
You take a pill a day as prescribed in instructions, and it slows the acid pumps that are affected due to med procedures, etc.
I never had a acid problem until my med procedures...and after all I could tatse was acid..a like a mouth full of it 24/7 once again eating all the enamel off my teeth...good luck, and don't eat gluten !!! I even have gluten free beer, and pizza !!!

 

[Jessica Rabbit]

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For Coccidiosis you need Amprolium, comes in several forms.
The durvet is a 'vechicle' I understand, in other words it is used to rehydrate, like gatoraide for chickens.
Sulpha drugs used to be the #1 choice for Cocci but the strains we see today have built up immunities to sulpha, hence we now use Amprolium.
Amprolium is the drug used in medicated chick starter, which all babies should be on as this lets them build immunities slowly as they are brroded, then allowed outdoors where they can contract the 'bugs' that cause cocci that are poo'd out by infected birds and eaten by others.
If your bird had this parasitic infection, she would have had horrible bloody diareah, how the 'bug' digs up the intestinal lining....
It does not mean all your birds will get it.
Clean is the word here, clean the floors, coop runs, everywhere she was, and especially where she poo'd.
Hope you are OK, I am onlinne late, probably too late to help anyone

Thankfully I have no sign of any blood ANYWHERE and after giving them sulmet for 2 days they are ALL doing way better. Thank you everyone for all of your advice!

 

[Chickielady]

Illia congrates on the babies...how many so far ?????


And La Sombra::: did you ever see bloody pooh from your hen that just died ?
Why do you think she Cocci ?

How on earth did a major feed store have an outbreak of Cocci when all the babies are always on Medicated start and Gro ????????????
They are also raised indoors, and not in contaminated soil which is where cocci can live for a long time...birds hatched on and raised on wire hardly ever ever ever get cocci...so you bought a grown bird from a wire cage that a private party sold to the feed store and you bought it, is that correct ?
I want to hear exactly what you bought , from where, and what happened.
And from now on, I would stay away from this idiot place, especially when they prescibed (and no doubt sold to you) a product which is a rehydrants, not an anti-parasitic. This product they sold you is no doubt great to help birds with diareah recover and not go into shock from dehydration... but will not correct any disease process
They need to reimberse you the money you spent on the bird, and any meds they RX'd which wre BS...and now, thankyou very much...your soil will be contaminated with this parasite for generations.
Like parvovirus, the disease stays in the dirt.
And please set up a isolation pen, for new birds.
I have seen so many of you girls bringing home this bird or that bird...and tossing them right into your existing flock !!!
The other big giant no no is to stop feeding wildbirds around your chickens..this includes plants that attract wildbirds as they can bring in 99% of the disease you birds will get.
Hope you are OK...I am waiting to hear the answers to my q's as I, and alot of others, do not want to go to this place and make your mistake...

 

[LaSombra]

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oh, that wasn't me. I had a sick pullet for a day, but didn't die and didn't have cocci... Was someone else. I can't remember who without surfing back through all the posts...