Cocci

[Oscar]

Last year my bro had gotten some pheasants for his FFA project, they all died and I think they got cocci this year I want to get some more birds than chickens, there hasn't been birds in there since this fall when we released the last two, is there any way to get rid of cocci in the ground?

 

[Dood]

Not 100%

I recommend you put down patio stones over the dirt, keep the pen very clean and don't let the birds eat food off the ground

 

[Oscar]

Ok thanks would it work for feeding if I just fed and water in a bowl?

 

[alforddm]

Cocci can stay in the ground an insane amount of time something like 50 years I think? There are treatments for it though.

 

[Oscar]

But if I fed out of a bowl would that work? Also does older birds with cocci not lay eggs?

 

[Preitler]

No, the birds will always pick on the ground.

 

[Oscar]

Can rabbits get chicken cocci? Somewhere on here I though someone said that it is a different cocci.

 

[Dood]

It is a different species but you should not let your rabbits come in contact with poultry wastes as they can get sickly from injesting the fecal matter when they groom themselves

 

[Ramjet]

Cocci can stay in the ground an insane amount of time something like 50 years I think? There are treatments for it though.

Yeah , it can stay 50 years or more even with no animals present .... crazy.


I've used Borax to get rid of it in the ground .... It did produce some results but since my dogs continued to use that area to poop in , it was near impossible to eradicate.

I just keep my rabbits off the ground and don't have any issues in them. You could theoretically do the same thing with foul - Keep them off the ground but that presents containment problems.


It's said that ~80-90% of all domestic livestock has some form of cocci .... It wont kill an animal on its own but when combined with other illness / stress factors it'll complicate matters.

 

[michaels4gardens]

Chickens will develop a resistance to cocci if exposed to small amounts of it, just use corid [or another coccidiostat] in the water , or feed fine chopped onion tops 1x/week on the side , for the first 2 months, the adult chickens will then be fine, unless you have other contributing factors.