Unfortunately I had a rooster with like symptoms, roost when could otherwise slept on the ground. When he stared drooling I took him to the vet and he couldn't figure out what was wrong, gave him antibiotics but he eventually passed away, broke my heart. A couple of years later I had a sick...
We found out a couple of years ago that the mother will put the babies in the water. My husband went out and found 3 of them in the water bucket, thankfully he found them before anything happened. After that they got a pan just deep enough to wash their faces in, and even then we put bricks in...