Corid' Chicken Healer.

[jr23...@hotmail.com]

the biggest enemy the dedicated cocker has is coccidiosis. It's a
silent, insidious killer that at best scars your birds intestines to
the point that they literally starve to death no matter how well you
feed them, and at worst will kill your precious chicks.
You can't EVER get rid of coccidiosis! No amount of bleaching, tilling
the soil and liming it, or anything will eliminate it. Why? Wild birds
are constantly reseeding the soil with coccidiosis spores. ALL wild
birds carry one or more of the seven known strains of coccidiosis.
What can you do? As big a problem as it is, it's really fairly easily
managed with proper treatment. If you do as I do and hatch 90% of your
chicks in an incubator and keep them inside in brooders, it doesn't
really become a problem until their feet actually hit the ground. It's
not transmitted through the egg, so they have to get on infected soil
to get it. I feed medicated chick starter with Amprollium every day,
but believe me, it's NOT a high enough dosage to prevent full blown
coccidiosis.
I start my chicks on a 10 day round of liquid Amprollium in their
water seven days before I put them on the ground, and continue for
three days afterwards. The way it actually works is that the chicks
get a mild dose of cocci and it allows their natural immune system to
build up immunity to it, the Amprollium managing it so the chicks
actually never get sick. I repeat the treatment in two weeks just to
make sure. Since I've been treating it this way, I haven't had a
unhealthy chick due to coccidiosis.
For my hen hatch stuff, the chicks seem to be pretty much immune to it
while they are following the hen so I give them the ten day treatment
when the hen shows signs of weaning them and repeat it again in two
weeks.
IF your chicks stink and you see signs of bloody diahrea and "cold"
looking chicks, you've got a full blown case. IF you don't IMMEDIATELY
start treatment you'll start losing them in 3-5 days and at that point
they are basically ruined and will NEVER live up to their potential.
As I said there are at least seven known types of it, so I treat my
birds for it every three months of their lives. My favorite treatment
for the adult fowl is Sulmet in the water, but Corid powder and Albon
are good also.
Get them on the ground healthy and keep them that way IF you want to
be in the win column! YFIS

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wackman03-20-2005, 08:46 PM
i wanna ask how much sulmet and how long for week old chicks