Hi cindy,cindy wrote: that is untrue..adult birds can get cocci over and over again if the environment is not clean or new birds are introduced that carry, it is shed through feces.
I'm not disagreeing with you as such because I do actually know that yes adult birds do carry coccidiosis in their bodies at times but adults are normally immune to this and very rarely show any symptoms
And for this reason few birds are rarely lost,
In 36 years of breeding and exhibiting birds I've not once ever lost an adult bird through coccidiosis and don't know of anyone else who has eaither
I fully understand how the birds get the waisting disease and like I mentioned earlier that it's normally very young birds that die from this simply because their immune system is to weak and yes they do pick it up through the birds feces, normally the feces from their parents once the birds have fledged from the nest as youl notice that a youngster will never get coccidiosis whilst in the nest, always from the time of fledgling to the first moult
Here in the uk there are many British bird breeders and exhibitors that breed a very good number of quality greenfinches every year including myself over the years and the greenfinch is terrible for going light as soon as they've fledged, this is something that we've always delt with by using the sulphur drugs,
I personally don't like using to many drugs and tonics on birds but in these sought of cases we obviously have to take these measures,
We normally use coxi plus from versa laga ( Belgium product ) or Baycox
