Worms!!

[rachpatterson]

After reading byc tonight I believe my Isabelle is fighting coccidiosis. She has been wormed with safeguard Friday night after seeing tiny worms in her poop. She is eating provided food and water but is not foraging. She walks around the yard with the 4 others but sleeps standing up while they scratch for bugs. She is still too weak to fly up to the roost and I weighed her tonight, 2.17 pounds and she's a 5.5 month black sex link, she's just feathers and bones. The last 3 weekends we have spread 3 tons of compost into 4 different garden beds that the girls range through. I raced to TSC and got corid mixed 1.5 tsp/gallon and she has already drank some. I will add it to the 2 outdoor waterers in the morning. Right now she is in a box in the living room. She is also having runny diarrhea. Everyone else looks and acts healthy. Is there anything special I can feed her to get some weight back on? Anything else I can be doing?

 

[casportpony]

After reading byc tonight I believe my Isabelle is fighting coccidiosis. She has been wormed with safeguard Friday night after seeing tiny worms in her poop. She is eating provided food and water but is not foraging. She walks around the yard with the 4 others but sleeps standing up while they scratch for bugs. She is still too weak to fly up to the roost and I weighed her tonight, 2.17 pounds and she's a 5.5 month black sex link, she's just feathers and bones. The last 3 weekends we have spread 3 tons of compost into 4 different garden beds that the girls range through. I raced to TSC and got corid mixed 1.5 tsp/gallon and she has already drank some. I will add it to the 2 outdoor waterers in the morning. Right now she is in a box in the living room. She is also having runny diarrhea. Everyone else looks and acts healthy. Is there anything special I can feed her to get some weight back on? Anything else I can be doing?

If you want to give a concentrated oral dose in addition to her medicated water, mix 1/2 teaspoon Corid with 2 teaspoons (10ml) of water, stir really well and give 0.75ml of it to her. If she has coccidiosis, that should really help. No need to do it more than two days in a row.

-Kathy

 

[dawg53]

Runny diarrhea can be a sign of worms (what you're dealing with.) I recommend you give Isabelle buttermilk mixed with scrambled egg for several days.

 

[rachpatterson]

It's more than diarrhea, she's been really tired, weak and sits most of the day fluffed up. Especially right after bringing in new dirt to the yard. All signs point to cocci. She's just so thin, I'd rather treat than not for it.

 

[dawg53]

It's more than diarrhea, she's been really tired, weak and sits most of the day fluffed up. Especially right after bringing in new dirt to the yard. All signs point to cocci. She's just so thin, I'd rather treat than not for it.

Those are the same symptoms as worm infestations. Go ahead, give the corid.

 

[casportpony]

It's more than diarrhea, she's been really tired, weak and sits most of the day fluffed up. Especially right after bringing in new dirt to the yard. All signs point to cocci. She's just so thin, I'd rather treat than not for it.

You might also want to worm 5 days in a row in case it's capillary worms. If she continues to lose weight you should tube feed, which I can teach you how to do if you're interested. Google symptoms of enteritis, E. coli and capillary worms and see what you think.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Can you post a picture of her poop?

-Kathy

 

[rachpatterson]

It's a lot of water with normal color bits. I've never seen any blood in it.

She's in a box with brown shipping paper.

 

[casportpony]

It's a lot of water with normal color bits. I've never seen any blood in it.

She's in a box with brown shipping paper.

*Might* be a bacterial infection. What antibiotics do you have? Pet, poultry or human, many might work if it is a bacterial infection.

-Kathy

 

[rachpatterson]

I don't have any on hand but I am very close to a tractor supply