Welcome to BYC Nursehev35. You need to read your labels. Nutridrench has both vitamins and electrolytes, plus some selenium and vitamin E. Nutridrench is also expensive, and it can be more economical to give it undiluted orally 1 ml per lb daily, so for a 1 week old chick, I would probably 1/10th of an ml, or 0.1 ml. There is water soluble vitamin E available, but most E is not. Selenium can be toxic in high doses--most of the links say 25 mcg daily, but egg and tuna contain selenium also. If they are eating and drinking and look okay, they may not need electrolytes. Some people just use baby vitamins--PolyVisol without iron 3 drops by mouth daily. It contains the Vit. E, and thiamine or B1, but no selenium.
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