What is Cocci?

[amour.chicks]

I'm new to this and I've heard a lot about it, but I don't know what it is.

What are ways to prevent it?
What are ways to treat it?
What are ways to tell if my chicks have it or not?

Thanks!

Bekah <33

 

[realmofthewoodsranch]

x.__hearts&&roses :

I'm new to this and I've heard a lot about it, but I don't know what it is.

What are ways to prevent it?
What are ways to treat it?
What are ways to tell if my chicks have it or not?

Thanks!

Bekah <33

The only part I can answer is Cocci is short for Coccidiosis, which is passed through contact with contaminated feces. You can treat it, but I don't know how exactly...
Good luck with your question!
ETA: and it's species specific, goat cocci is not rabbit cocci, and chicken cocci is different than dog cocci... it's not transmitted interspecies.​

 

[MoodyChicken]

Here's some info on it! I didn't finish writing about it though...

better fix that.

http://sites.google.com/site/moodysbantams/poultry-health-1/coccidiosis

1. Keep your coop clean and dry. Feed fresh greens regularly, and put apple cider vinegar in the water. Keep your birds in good health and cocci shouldn't be a problem

2. coccidiostats, take a fecal sample of an afflicted bird to your vet to determine which cocci species is causing the problem, then treat based on your findings

3. based on symptoms, time of year, age, etc. it's cocci season right now!

 

[sammi]

info about cocci with treatment suggestions:

http://fowlfacts.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=afflictiondiseaseff&action=display&thread=1213

 

[amour.chicks]

Quote:
What do you mean by Feed fresh greens regularly?

Does that mean like vegetables?

 

[speckledhen]

http://www.cornerstone-farm.com/dealing_with_coccidiosis.htm

Excellent article on this. It's a protozoan that lives in the soil. There are nine types. Birds eventually become immune to them, if exposed to them slowly over time, but when the oocycsts that are in the soil overwhelm their systems, they are said to have cocci. (pronounced COCK-see)

 

[MoodyChicken]

x.__hearts&&roses :

What do you mean by Feed fresh greens regularly?

Does that mean like vegetables?

Yeah, chickweed, spinach, grass clippings, miner's lettuce. Green veggies are good, but leafy greens are best.​

 

[Glenda L Heywood]

this is one of the best explanations of coccidiosis

fROM backyardchickens.com

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E-mail PM Re: GRRR... Why do things keep happening!?! Not that anyone cares.Mourningdove wrote:
Hi there, I haven't heard of this either and I just wrote this recipe down for future refrence! Now none of my chicks or chickens are sick so for learning sake could you please post a thread for this topic for us newbies? Also I would like to know where to find the signs and symptoms for this? How would a healthy group of birds get this if no new birds are carried in? Forgive my ignorance please!

Many different diseases of chickens show identical symptoms which makes accurate diagnosis very hard
Coccidiosis is caused by coccidia (genus Eimeria), which are single celled parasites that live in the gut wall of their host. They are host specific: turkeys and other species are not infected by fowl coccidia and vice-versa. The different species of coccidia live in different parts of the gut and can be divided into those causing intestinal coccidiosis (the majority) or caecal coccidiosis (one species).

Coccidiosis Caecal Symptoms
In chicks or young birds, droopiness, huddling with ruffled feathers, loss of appetite, retarded growth, and bloody diarrhoea in early stages
It affects their cecum
Mortality is high
Spread from contact with droppings of infected birds. Spread on used equipment, feed sacks, feet o humans and wild birds
An important symptom is blood around the vent or bloody diarrhea

Coccidiosis Intestinal Symptoms
Affects growing or semi mature birds, droopiness, huddling with ruffled feathers, loss in interest in water and feed, retarded growth or weight loss, watery, moucousy, or pasty, tan or blood tinged diarrrhea, sometimes emaciation and dehydration
In mature birds; thin breast, weak legs, drop in laying, sometimes diarrrhea
If affects their intestinal tract
Mortality is limited to high
Spread from droppings of infected birds; spread on used equipment, feed sacks feet of humans and wild birds
An important symptom is blood around the vent or bloody diarrhea

Treatment:
1-teaspoon amprolium (20 percent) per gallon drinking water for 5 days (this is not an antibiotic)
A broad spectrum antibiotic to guard against secondary infections (yoghurt will restore the gut flora of the bird and make this more effective).
Follow this treatment with a multi vitamin supplement (especially A and K)
a regular dose of garlic in their feed also helps and is a great natural wormer.

Spread of the disease
Outbreaks are most common after wet weather or in damp conditions as it activates the oocysts in the soil.
Damp or contaminated litter and overcrowding favour its development.
Most commercial chick starters contain a drug that inhibits coccidiosis, but unless a clean, dry environment is maintained outbreaks can occur. Birds fed diets without preventative drugs are particularly at risk so clean dry litter and adequate space are especially important
If you have soil in your coop turn it, but don’t allow dust to blow everywhere, as this will spread the disease. Sprinkling hydrated lime onto the soil and raking it into the dirt will help to eradicated the problem.

Coccidiosis is spread when one bird eats faecal material from an infected bird, which contains the infective stage of the coccidia (small egg-like bodies called oocysts). Oocysts are ingested when birds scratch and peck at the litter or consume contaminated feed or water. The oocysts in the droppings need moisture and warmth to mature before they can infect other birds, and can do so very quickly (24 hr). Oocysts can remain alive in poultry sheds for more than a year and are very resistant to most disinfectants.

Each oocyst breaks down in the gut to release parasites that multiply into thousands, damaging the gut and causing disease that may lead to the fowl's death.

Beginning five to seven days after infection, thousands of oocysts pass out in the droppings of the bird to continue the life cycle. It is impossible to prevent this spread unless birds are housed so that they have no contact with faeces.

Antibiotics don’t cure Coccidiosis, just help stop the possibility of a secondary infection taking hold of your bird, which is often what ends up killing it.

THE WET MASH PROBIOTIC recipe is
on next post

 

[Glenda L Heywood]

USING WET MASH PROBIOTIC FOR TREATING COCCIDIOSIS

**treat them for 5-7 days with sulmet in water
Or using Corid amproylium in water
read further

here is what to do immediately

****you need to get going on the coccidiosis medication
the sulmet is okay you need to use it in the water as well as in the

***medicated wet mash
1 qt dry crumbles
2 qts water
in the water put 1 tsp of sulmet
***feed each bird 3 tbsp of this medicated wet mash
to get them going on the medication

Add Corid in water 3-4 tbsp per gallon of corid
**

and use the sulmet in the water *****( I would add 1/2 pkg of red jello to the sulmet water to give flavor as sulmet is so strong they some times won't drink enough of the straight medicated water. The jello is appitising to them)

**** also
feed this two mornings at rate of 3 tsp per young bird
or 3 tbsp per adul bird

see that they eat this medicated wet mash in 20-30 minutes
then clean the wet feeders and restock dry crumbles
It gets them going on the sulmet sooner than just letting them decide to drink the medicted wet mash

trust me this does work have used it many times on all kinds of fowl sick with coccidiosis

to get the birds going I would do this
***feed the medicated wet mash now
***then feed the wet mash probiotic this evening

wet mash probiotic
1 qt od dry crumbles
2 qts of milk any kind
1/4 cup of yoguart
mix good and feed 3 tbsp per chicken so that they eat it in 20-30 minutes

also in the water put 2 tbsp of ACV to a gallon of water when done medicating with either sulmet or corid


you can email me PM for help

 

[peakpoultry]

x.__hearts&&roses :

I'm new to this and I've heard a lot about it, but I don't know what it is.

What are ways to prevent it?
What are ways to treat it?
What are ways to tell if my chicks have it or not?

Thanks!

Bekah <33

Off the subject, but I love your saying!!!


Sick of trying
Tired or crying
Yeah, I'm smiling
But inside I'm dieing...​