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    Heat stressed chicken still breathing laboriously...please advise

    After 14 days of tetracycline water (with electrolytes, vitamin C, vitamin D, and sugar), changing their bedding to lower-dust corn cobs, and occasional nostril applications of VetRx, the five remaining chicks all survived and are now thriving. One of them still had me worried about 11 days...
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    Treating upper respiratory infections

    This article was posted long ago by another user: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044
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    Heat stressed chicken still breathing laboriously...please advise

    Thank you for your advice. Sadly, the chick passed away yesterday morning in my hand. The other chicks are showing signs of respiratory infection as well. I have them all on tetracycline and probiotic starter feed. A friend of mine suggested that the chicks likely got the respiratory...
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    Heat stressed chicken still breathing laboriously...please advise

    Hello, my wife and I are first time chick owners. We built a coop and were prepared for pulleys but received chicks, so we kind of scrambled to make a suitable living situation for them. We had them in our detached greenhouse to get to the recommended 90 degrees. With careful monitoring...
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