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    Please read--chick in trouble, updated from previous post

    I posted about this issue last night, today it has gotten worse. The chick is eating and drinking from an eyedroppper (starter crumble mashed up into bits and mixed with electrolyte water) but the skin beneath his beak along his neck is fluid filled. Any ideas of how, or if, I can help him? I...
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    HELP!!! baby chicks dying--no clue why:(

    He is still alive today but very wobbly, still opening and closing his beak all the time. He has taken some crumble mixed with electrolyte/vitamin water via eye dropper, and has pooped ok, but he seems to be fading. Beneath his little beak, his skin along his throat seems very puffy, and...
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    HELP!!! baby chicks dying--no clue why:(

    Thank you everybody for your replies, you guys are great!! I will cover the shavings wiht paper towels, that is a great idea. They don't have pasty butt. I had to deal with that last year with my Delawares so I'm familiar with it (I'm such a newbie with the rest of it that it's scary!!) Can it...
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    HELP!!! baby chicks dying--no clue why:(

    Thansk for your post:) The food is DuMor starter, just purchased two weeks ago and stored dry, etc, not moldy. Their water is fresh too, I dump it out when it starts to look nasty and refill, probably 3+ times a day. Their sawdust has also never been wet, but it is an older bag. Although the...
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    HELP!!! baby chicks dying--no clue why:(

    Hello! I am hoping that someone here can help me out, I am at my wits end. I ordered 35 baby broiler roos and received them last Thurs. One little guy was listless and limp when I got them, he died that afternoon. Over the next 3 days I lost 4 more. They all went the same way---first they...
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