You all are so helpful. After looking at the sicker baby's poo this morning, I noticed that it is not all bloody anymore. Yesterday morning it was all bloody, inside and out. This morning it appears to only be streaked with red.
Birds (chickens) have two kinds of poo. One comes from a cecal pouch (very stinky) and this dropping is the one that was bloody. The other type of dropping was just off-color - tannish. After looking thru the Chicken Health Book by G. Damerow and concluding that their symptoms are the same as a birdy with cecal coccidiosis (sp?), I have the choice of using a coccidiostat like amprolium (Corid) or going a more natural route. I wanted to try the CS first (since I had no Corid). It appears to be doing something. The chicks are also much more active today. Yesterday they didn't want to move around much at all. I will wait another day and see if there is any more change in their cecal droppings. Also, I agree that their intestinal track is different from ours, more straighter. But the CS still needs to get into the cecal pouch to do it's magic. I would assume that a very strong batch (whether it has a high particle content or not) would be higher in the ionic silver. Is it the higher ionic (more positive charged silver) content that is doing the magic? OR is it the actual silver particles that do the job? I know, some think one, some think the other. But whichever it is, something is happening. thanks Christine -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
