Coccidiosis

 Other Names
 Cocci

Organism or Mechanism
 Eimeria tenella, E. necatrix, E. acervulina, E. maxina, E. praecox, E. mitis coccidial protozoan parasites


Preventative Measures
 • Develop resistance in chicks (possibly through exposure to older birds or litter).
 • Rotate pastures frequently.
• Keep litter dry and restrict access to droppings.
 • Give one clove of crushed garlic per chick.
 • Maintain vigilance for symptoms.
 • Keep age groups separate.
 • Ensure litter is dry but not dusty.
 • Keep watering facilities away from litter.
 • Ensure high standards of hygiene for personnel.
 • Ensure good hygiene of feeders and drinkers.
 • Keep raising level of drinks for growing chicks.
 • Administer Paracox TM vaccine at a rate of 0.1 ml per chicken in drinking water at 5-9 days old.
 • Use resistant breeds: White Leghorn, New Hampshire, Rhode Island Red
• Give apple cider vinegar (1T/5 gal) in drinking water


Management Treatments
• High temperatures (above 56 C), freezing, drying can kill oocysts, or ammonia based disinfectants.
 • Move poultry to new ground and heavily lime old ground, fumigate the houses by
burning cayenne pepper or juniper powder


Physical Treatments


• Give DE in feed


Nutritional Treatments


• Give probiotics in feed.
• Following a fast give a laxative diet with bran, molasses, and greens (chickweed, groundsel, rue, sow thistle, mustards, comfrey, lettuce, cresses, and grass seed.
• Give buttermilk to help expel worms.
• Poultry fed corn-based diets have been shown to survive Coccidiosis better than those on wheat-based diets



Herbal Treatments

• Fast for 1 day on warm water then give drops of senna brew (1 ½ pods soaked in 1 dessertspoon of water with a few grains of powdered ginger.
• Give dried leaves of Artemisia annua as an in-feed supplement.

Homeopathic Treatments

• Give Mercurius cor. Or Ipecac. In clean drinking water.
• If birds are listless with bloody droppings give—Merc cor, Ipecac.
• If pale comb and lack of appetite give—Chellidonium, Nux vomica.
 • If head remedy needed give—Merc so
• If birds are emaciated with diarrhea give—Aconite, Merc, Podo, or Ipecac.
• Combination remedy of Merc cor30+Nux vomica30+Sulphur30, 5ml each in 8 liters of water for 100 birds for 3 days.