Coccidiosis:

 

Common signs are sudden and dramatic diarrhea, weight loss bird will look depressed and limp.

This parasite lives in the lining of the birds intestines, damaging the intestine and may even cause hemorrhaging. Birds can’t take in nutrients from their feed.. Eventually leading to a long painful death of starvation …

 

Passed onto other by eating poo that has the coccidian eggs … Poo from an affected bird can have numerous eggs which will increase the spread of this throughout the aviary.

IT is very contagious. MOST COMMON CAUSE damp and wet in aviary .

Coocidosis strikes fast....no prolonged illness....dead birds within a day or two.

Dark poo indicates bleeding internally and it has gone too far.

treat with coccivet and hospital cage for warmth...........expect a lot of dead birds if action and treatment is not taken urgently

Coccidiosis is caused by protozoa in the family Eimeriidae which are loosely called coccidia. Species within this family are highly host specific and highly site specific within the host.

Coccidiosis are infections by the genus Isospora and Eimeria (which are in the Eimeriidae family).

The protozoa replicate within the cells of the small intestine inside little "capsules" called schizonts. When the schizonts rupture they cause large areas of damage and haemorrhage in the intestinal lining.

 

Clinical Signs (CSx) of severe coccidiosis (different species have different pathogenicity and each individual host has a different immunity):

Diarrhoea with or without blood and sometimes fragments of the intestinal lining.

Loss of weight

Dehydration

Death

 

If schizogony (asexual reproduction - occurs in the schizonts) is the main cause of pathology then oocysts (eggs) will not be present in the faeces and diagnosis is made post mortem.

Different species respond differently to anti-coccidial drugs.

It is generally a disease of young animals and animals crowded together under warm, moist conditions are predisposed to it.

 

It is NOT a bacteria, therefore antibiotics will probably and most likely NOT work on them

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