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Good morning friends
I hope we all slept well..

Please I sincerely need a mentor��� I'm a first timer. It seems like all was going well with my birds without mortality or health issues at about 6weeks until I got a wrong info to feed them grower, they lost weight

I've had a sudden huge mortality and a lot of sickness this past weeks and my birds haven't been able to recover weight loss.

It seems like I'm doing a lot of wrong things. I'm already running a lose but I don't mind if I'll be taught and put through thoroughly. I'll take this as a lesson.

Please who will be my mentor??�� I promise to be a good student. Thanks.

Redomi:
Follow what the vet said, I pray it worked. But if it doesn't, I will come in

I have to bring my predicament here because I've given the drugs for coccidia as the vet instructed and I've exhausted it, most of the birds are eating now but I still have some of them who are still inactive, they don't eat or drink, some still have brown droppings, some watery and a whitish dropping. I have 2/3 who make this noise like they wish to clear their throat and they bring out mucus and they are shaky when they stand, like the ground is shaking or they are scared to place their feets on the floor

My question is, should I go ahead to deworm irrespective of all these or find treatment to these first?

Ginaz:
Stop with the PKC. I mixed PKC to my birds feed, I noticed they stopped eat and started losing weight . normally they would rush their feed that before noon I have to replaced with fresh feed.

I noticed with the introduction of PKC to their feed, they lack appetite to eat. Just few were eating. I lost some birds .

I stopped with the PKC and gave them their normal feed and they started eating well. Maybe you should stop with the PKC and see if there would be improvement.

Okay, I'll have to watch their intake tomorrow when I replace their feed with just Vita though thing is, they are barely interested in eating no matter how you call on them or make the feed look interesting.

noeloge82:
Sorry am just seeing ur message pls kindly get amprolium 250 and give them for 5 days pls update on the progress within the 5 days
Thank u

Okay, thanks a lot

chukskafor:
Sorry for your loses dear, it is always disheartening to see ones investment running into loss before ones very eyes.
As for your question, many factors may be responsible, especially your biosecurity due to
1. Overcrowding in your pen
2. Litter management whereby the wood shavings where not changed on time and ammonia got built up on the floor, thus leading to difficulty in breathing and the nasal and eye discharge as described

Solution may not be limited to treatment with tetracycline capsule in their drinking water for like five days, followed by multivitamin for another let's say five dsys

Oh, thanks
It's disheartening truly, considering I barely lost any from onset only to suddenly lose a huge number in two days. I did cry sef
Okay, thanks for your suggestions. Thanks again

Redomi:
Sir I can help you till mortality will reduced and stopped withing three days.
Are you on deep liter or free range?
is water always available 24/7?
which feed are you using?
when last did you give them Lasota?
when last did you deworm them?
what time do you feed them everyday?
Do you always make feed available?
Do you have space to allow them free range?

They're in an enclosed pen, but I sometimes let them out, especially when I intend disinfecting the place.
Water is almost always available for them
This past few days I let them stay out through out the day because I thought probably the pen has become stuffy for them due to the weather
I'm currently using Vita finisher though I mix with pkc, feed is always made always but I still come back to meet the feed same way.
I feed at about 6:40am, go to check their water by 12/1pm and refill feeds of the ones losing weight and about 6:30pm to feed and fix lamp and send them in.
I last gave lasota 5weeks ago, I dewormed the week after lasota was administered. Though last week when I visited the shop where I get drugs and complained to them, a vet was contacted and he said I treat coccis(5days), deworm and finally give lasota.

chukskafor:
Bloody diarrhoea signifies intestinal coccidiosis but from your above description, there is no sign of newcastle disease involved.
Newcastle is significant with wing drooping, coughing and difficulty in breathing as well as running temperature, wing flapping and difficulty in walking with occasional paralysis, and twisting of neck in a most severe case called (òjugò in Igbo language and ugbhohor in Edo language)

Modified: you did not include the history of your birds in your complaint bro, what was your vaccination schedule like (by history i meant the age of the birds, vaccination given so far and your biosecurity provision)

With regards to this post, I remembered complaining to the house that my birds were losing weights and barely eat. Last week I lost 19 birds of 9weeks old. Some has tract of blood in there dropping, some were pooing just water and white film, one even looked like it poo it's intestines. Though I treated coccis a week before. I was those to repeat the treatment again as it wasn't sufficient, which I have been doing for the past 4days but my challenge right now is the sounds some of the birds make, more like they have cough. They bring out mucus from their mouth and nose and struggle to breath. And they still don't eat. Please I need suggestions

[quote author=Redomi post=96259995]Check those chicks to see if lice is feasting on their body.
BTW, when was the last time you give them Lasota?[/quote
I treated lasota 4weeks ago
I did check their bodies yesterday, couldn't find anything on them

Redomi:
You have to treat Coccidiosis, secondly check their body for lice

I'm currently treating that, though I give them multivitamin in the morning and afternoon (considering they barely eat) and cidiatreat at night

This evening while observing them, one was so quite and just seating at a place even when I brought it out in the open, while I try to raise it, it's poo was practically water

Redomi:
There is no cheat sir.
1. You have to love whatever you are doing and do it with love......?sometimes my neighbour thinks I'm mad whenever I'm talking to my birds like human.
2. Never manage, buy good feed, good drugs, good multivitamin, provide enough ventilation during the day, never buy birds from source you dont trust because I have seen farmers that were given fake and painted agrited doc.
Listen to advice and not all advice, take your time to observe and think.
3. Treat your birds immediately you notice any changes in poo colour and behaviour, never mixed birds of different specie together.
4. Teach your birds how to eat vegetable especially water leaves, I swear if there is no feed in the next one year, all my birds will survive, there are varieties of options I have taught them from day old. They prefer vegetable more than feed.
5. Most importantly, dont take birds you cannot care for or birds you dont have space to keep.
Buying birds is not a problem, but feeding them can force a farmer to sell them cheaper against his wish. If you budget 150k for poultry, abeg take just one carton of broiler(50). Feeding, vaccine and drugs no be small thing o.


I face challenges too and I loose birds too

Please what do you do if your birds seem inactive, I complained about the recent lose in weight, I had to sort them base on size, I noticed the smaller ones barely eat or drink water, they just seat at a corner, most times i have to talk and bring them close to their feeder for them to eat, they just touch and leave it. This morning I noticed 2-3 poos with a trace of blood and red worm-like stuff but couldn't pinpoint from which bird yet

NE555:
please jhudith send it to my mail ytaofika@yahoo.com

I didn't get this message please.
What do you want me to send to your mail?

jidestroud:
Are they broilers? If Yes, do away with the growers and start feeding them finisher ASAP.
Multivitamins will do just fine.

Best of luck.

Okay, thanks

jfkenny:
What do you notice.poop color,are the birds active.are they eating ,what is the behaviour now that contrasts with their previous behaviour.

Thing is, I've always been feeding them top starter, but someone said I should switch to grower which I did last two weeks, due to scarcity of feed and it's rising price, I had to mix the feed with pkc, hence their poo became darker and sort of sandy. They're active though but I noticed they don't eat it with much enthuasism as they do before.
This past 3days, I went back to feeding them top grower mash without missing to see if their will be changes, but it's not easy feeding just that considering how much they consume and price of feed, so far, their poop is back to normal, though some still stool watery poo
Someone recommended I get them fast growth to boost them, another person said boosters isn't good for them.
I just don't know how to remedy the situation

Good evening house, trust you're all good. Please I need advice. My birds are 7weeks old but have been loosing weight since last week. Please what do I do?