Worried!!! Please Help! Corid Question

[Haunted55]

Thank you so much everyone! I messed up and I would feel horrible if I hurt them. I have some Poly-Vi-Sol to give them after treatment. I got some regular yogurt for them as well. Will the yogurt be ok for a probiotic or is there something else I should give them? I know their food also has probiotics and in it.

If your birds are not laying yet, the excess calcium in the yogurt can actually hurt them. if the feed has some probiotics in it then you really do not ned the yogurt. I would switch the Poly to a poultry vitamin. Sav-A-Chick, whatever, rather than the human vitamin. some of the hiamine, which the Corid blocks, is absorbed no matter what. After the 7 day treatment with the Corid, a good poultry vitamin, as well as a probiotic, is the best thing to do for a few days. [3-4 days] Giving a vitamin supplement, with the Corid, is defeating the purpose.

 

[scratch'n'peck]

Thank you so much everyone! I messed up and I would feel horrible if I hurt them. I have some Poly-Vi-Sol to give them after treatment. I got some regular yogurt for them as well. Will the yogurt be ok for a probiotic or is there something else I should give them? I know their food also has probiotics and in it.

Their regular diet with the probiotic should be fine. I had never really thought about the calcium in the yogurt being a problems for chicks, but it makes sense since the added calcium in layer feed is supposed to be problematic for the development of chicks.

 

[casportpony]

Haunted is correct, and in adult birds, diets greater than 3% calcium can cause problems like gout. Not sure what the number is for chicks, but the daily intake of calcium should probably not exceed the percentage listed on a bag of chick starter. FWIW, when I treat mine for coccidiosis with Corid I don't do anything special after treatment and they do just fine.

-Kathy

 

[Haunted55]

Haunted is correct, and in adult birds, diets greater than 3% calcium can cause problems like gout. Not sure what the number is for chicks, but the daily intake of calcium should probably not exceed the percentage listed on a bag of chick starter. FWIW, when I treat mine for coccidiosis with Corid I don't do anything special after treatment and they do just fine.

-Kathy

Same here Kathy, but I have had some in the past that in fact needed the TLC because it was closer to an enteritis than just coccidiosis. I figure if you can, do it, it won't hurt and could help them recover a lot faster.

 

[MarcoPollo]

Thanks for the info on what to do after treating with Corid. I am finishing up a Corid treatment now and my hens need all the help they can get. So I will get them some yogurt, and vitamins for afterwards. My birds do not drink the water very much when the vitamin/electrolyte tablets are added. I have "Life-Lytes" and it has adult/stressed bird instructions, but they barely drank the water when I gave them it before. Which supplement is better? Sav-A-Chick seems like a similar product. I guess I could soak some bread or feed in the water to get them to take it.
I guess they can have yogurt or buttermilk during the treatment, right? Just not the vitamins.
If hens stop laying during their treatment, is layer feed too dangerous to continue to feed (I see the calcium level post and it makes me a bit nervous, cause most of my hens have not been laying for about 2 weeks. Their feed is 3.5-4.5% calcium)?