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What's wrong with Wasabi?

Good morning and Happy Easter! I'm sorry for being late! Here are Wasabi's dropping this morning.One of her eyes i@ completely shut. She doesn't want to eat or drink. I have the liquid Corid. In fact, I was worry about Cocci, so last week, I gave my hens in coop#1 Corid for 5 days. Wasabi was one of them.
 
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Good morning! Yes, that red appears to be the color of shed intestinal lining instead of blood, but it can still indicate she could be suffering from necrotic enteritis.

As @cottagecheese and I have been discussing, it matters little what has caused the enteritis. We want to do what it take to make her better.

The course of treatment for coccidia is five days on Corid, wait a week, and do another five day round of Corid. That's what I still recommend you do for the entire flock. However, only Wasabi should get treated with an antibiotic.

I keep an assortment of general broad spectrum antibiotics on hand to be able to treat a sick chicken. Often immediately getting a sick chicken started on an antibiotic can mean the difference between life and death. I successfully treated a young pullet for Clostridium after her sister died from it the week before. She's still alive three years later. She was treated with amoxicillin. I have that and penicillin, and Tylan 50 on hand. In the past I have had other antibiotics on hand that friends had given me rather than toss after they had been sick and had leftovers. I suggest you put the word out.

The treatment with amoxicillin is 250mg each day for an average size chicken for ten days. Ideally, half that dose should be given in the morning and the other half (125mg) given at night. Pop it right into the beak.
 

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