What killed her?

[M To The Maxx]

She was attacked by a hawk a couple days before she died. But she still had the symptoms before she was attacked.

 

[chickenzoo]

I'm sure that added stress contributed to her demise. She may have been an easier target for the hawk because she was ill. You can do a search on Yahoo to find out more about coccidia, it is very helpful.

 

[M To The Maxx]

Quote:
We could not find any corid so we just got wazine. How long should it take to make them healthy again?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote:
Assuming that there is one near you. I would have to drive 8-10 hours and cross two state borders to get to the closest TSC. There aren't any national chains in Arizona as far as feed stores go.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote:
We could not find any corid so we just got wazine. How long should it take to make them healthy again?

Wazine will treat for roundworms. It will have no affect on coccidia. You really need to take a fecal sample into a vet to see what needs to be treated.

Sulmet is a sulfa drug that works as a coccidiastat; it blocks one of the vitamins (I can't remember is it is A or B) and works as a coccidiastat. Corrid is a thiamin blocker that works as a coccidiastat. Several of hte sulfa drugs are effective against coccidia, but some have a very narrow therapeutic dose as compared with a toxic overdose for the bird.

Wazine temporarily parallizes roundworms, allowing htem to pass from the body, but has no affect on other types of worms or parasites.

 

[M To The Maxx]

So what you are saying is that I need to get sulmet?

 

[M To The Maxx]

Hey Sonoran Silkies I just was going to send you a pm but your inbox is full.

 

[Pennyhibbitts]

i think my roosters had mareks. it looked like the pics. i did not have a good computer at the time so i had no way to look up the symptoms.i am new at chicken farming..so, i had to make my own assessment of the situation.one rooster died and i was in a frenzy to heal the other he was limping on one leg and had a black fungus growing allover his face and into his mouth which made him unable to eat..his wings were drooopy and he was turning pale white. i asked the feed store and they did not know what to do. I soaked his feet in salt water and gave him some bird vitamins.so, this will sound strange but it worked! I went to the dollars store and got some antifungal cream for human feet. I rubbed on his feet and into his feathers and his face. after a few hours I pulled the black off. i noticed if start to bleed i would stop. and work on another area. then i used a Q-tip and put hydrogen peroxide on the bleeding areas after it stopped. after a few days the fungus was completely gone! my handsome rooster is now chasing his hens around the yard, crowing and playing ..he is scarred but he has his color back half his wattles are missing and he limps on one leg. but he is in good health now. he hadnt crowed for a long time.. I raised him from a egg and my chickens are like my children..it worked..so i thought you might try it!!

 

[speckledhen]

Corid is NOT an antibiotic and really, nothing like Sulmet. Corid is concentrated amprolium and easier on the system than Sulmet. Sulmet is a sulpha drug. You really have no idea what the chicken had, Maxx. Grown chickens rarely get cocci. By laying age, they are pretty much immune to whatever is in your soil. For a chicken to die of cocci, you'd be seeing bloody poop, like mucously hamburger. Sometimes, chickens just die of natural causes and not a disease of any type. I had one die from a heart defect.


Why do you think it's Mareks? You shouldn't treat blindly and if it's Mareks, you can't treat it anyway.

 

[M To The Maxx]

Quote:
I was told that those are some of the symptoms.