Can chicken coccidia transfer to dogs? Anyone, help me please?

[chicken_china_mom]

I have been battling coccidia in one of my chickens, and I have kept the sick bird completely isolated, however now I have my little chihuahua girl acting wierd. She stopped eating and drinking and she is just sleeping. I force fed her some baby food this evening, and vitamins earlier today but she isn't getting better. I just noticed it this afternoon, and since she is hypoglycemic I thought it was just her blood sugar dipping, but this is different. I am wondering, can dogs get chicken coccidia? Cause what I read online says that the kind that dogs get is not transferable to humans. I don't know how many kinds of coccidia there are! Any help anyone can give me on this would be great. Thanks. I will be calling my vet in the morning if she's not better. Oh, and she does not have diarrhea and she is not vomiting.

 

[ivan3]

There are protozoans specific to many species.
If a chook were to consume feces from a dog that was shedding spores of a canid specific protozoan and the spores passed through the chicken (species/host specific) and another dog ate the chook feces well, the chook didn't write message...

4) Coccidia are generally host-specific, seldom affecting species of animals that are unrelated to their usual definitive and intermediate host animal species.

From: http://www.pet-informed-veterinary-advice-online.com/coccidiosis-in-dogs.html (pretty definitive info on dog/cat protozoans).

Of course, there are always aberrant hosts that turn up from time to time (if one owns horses, one should shoot all opossums).

There would be more likely candidates than an avian specific coccidial vector resulting in the symptoms you describe (see the pics of the poop in the link above - think it might be something else). As your pooch is already stressed the vet probably needs to reassess.

Good luck with the chook and your dog!​

 

[chicken_china_mom]

My chihuahua girl died. The vet wasn't 100% sure what killed her. At first she suspected an intestinal infection, but shortly before she died she began to throw up blood, so then she suspected rat poisoning. We don't use rat poison here because we have animals, and my neighbor next door doesn't use it because she has outdoor cats, but I have a crazy neighbor across the street that we don't trust and we aren't sure if he tossed something in my yard. I would think that if he did, my other dogs would be sick, but only my little Sweet Pea got sick and died. My other dogs are all fine. Vet said it wasn't coccidia that killed my dog. We'll never know what killed her, though I am definitely more on guard now.

 

[anngili]

I'm so sorry!!

 

[Robin'sBrood]

First, I'm so very sorry for your loss.

Second, on July 22 I had to have my beloved dog, Wolfgang, put to sleep because his kidneys failed due to another disease he had. He had completely stopped eating and drinking when I took him in. Did your vet check her kidney function? Whatever the cause of your little one's death, I feel your pain and, again, I'm very sorry...