What is the favored Probiotic for Chicks

[bellachicks]

What is the best probiotic for chicks, currently 3 weeks of age, who are experiencing diarrhea?

 

[silkiechicken]

I've never gave mine anything, but there are tons of types of chicken poos... regular ones, watery ones, cecal ones that will stink up the brooder. Their poos change greatly with diet.

 

[realsis]

I used probios probotic when mine were chicks. Still use it now. I started using it when my chicks had pasty butt.it cured the pasty butt up and they never got it again. Probios has many live benifical bacteria including lactobacillus and acidophiles. It has 10 million colony forming units of lactic acid beneficial bacteria. Providing benifical bacteria for optimal intestinal health. The good bacteria set up housing in the intestine and can actually fight the bad bacteria. Iget my probios online for.12 dollars or so. I order it from WWW.probios.com. one jar lasts. A good long time. I use one teaspoon per gallon of water. Its good for the whole flock. My chicks were around three weeks when I started using it. Now that they are grown I still use it to maintain the benifical balance of bacteria in the intestine. Hope this helps. I really like probios its been a great product. I wish you the best.

 

[bellachicks]

I've never gave mine anything, but there are tons of types of chicken poos... regular ones, watery ones, cecal ones that will stink up the brooder. Their poos change greatly with diet.

Where can you suggest I learn more about the chicken poos? The cecal ones are indeed stinking up the brooder!!

Tonight my husband asked me how often they empty that poo vs regular poo, and lo I now need to further my poo education

 

[silkiechicken]

For me, this is largely from experience. I do recall seeing a poop thread, but I am not sure where it is. LOL All I know, is the cecal poos are all too often! Haha. I brood chicks outside for this reason.

 

[FowlTerritory]

Apple Cider Vinegar

 

[chooks4life]

Quote: Raw apples for diarrhoea. Apple Cider Vinegar is great too, has a host of goodies including probiotics. Plain yoghurt, unsugared (but not 'sugarfree'd' with any alternative sweetening) is also good. You should check out the threads on fermented feeds too.

The fibre in the apples will help them a lot, as will the sugars and enzymes in the fruit. I just smash the apple onto the ground, then give the pieces to them. Better than chopped as it's bruised and therefore both softer and getting even more sugary. Fruits are very important for babies in general. Both babies and fruits tend to happen in the same seasons, and fruits are often natural feeds eaten by wild animals, so you could say they're 'adapted' to one another, lol. Fruit's generally a great supplier of sugars, enzymes, vitamins, electrolytes, salts, and minerals, in an easily digestable form and correct balance. Once you cut fruits and vegetables/plants with metals you damage and sometimes utterly defeat the best active properties of them, since living plants have, like us, biochemical functions sensitive to metal, as well as electricity. Still, metal's convenient, but in desperate cases I don't use it to process plants to preserve the full benefits.

The best probiotics (and health) are obtained via freeranging and consuming the naturally supplied bacteria, enzymes, probiotics, vitamins, minerals, microorganisms, and intestinal fauna and flora they naturally obtain from earth, vegetation, fruits, insects, and water sources. It's also important to have a mother hen and mixed flock for best health as they obtain immunities and gastrointestinal fauna/flora by being around a healthy flock and being mouth-handed foods from their mothers. (lol at my way of saying it...) If you don't raise them as naturally as possible you will always be having the immune problems of trying to effectively rear 'chooks in bubbles' and preventing them from gaining natural alternatives so you keep having to spend to supply what they should be finding for themselves.

Obviously I'm a supporter of the natural way to raise poultry as it works so amazingly well for me but I understand you may not be in a situation where you can let them freerange or whatever. Natural health staples will still work in unnatural circumstances. Best wishes to you and yours. You'll find what works for you. Can't go past a staple diet involving raw minced garlic and kelp, as far as my experience has shown me, nothing seems to achieve the same health in the birds.

 

[bellachicks]

chooks4life: THANK YOU so much, you taught me a lot

I'm new to chickens, we only have 6 chicks, but Next Year we'll have a grown up hen to help the wee ones. For now these 6 are stuck with me.

 

[chooks4life]

You're very welcome bellachicks, I wish you all the best with your chooks, they're great livestock and pets.

 

[Eggcessive]

The poop pages are: chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=17568.0 and www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/02/whats-scoop-on-chicken-poop (look under chicken resources directory-poop.) Plain yogurt and apple cider vinegar with the mother (like Braggs or Heinz unpasteurized.)