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    11 days old: heavy breathing, air gasping ?! in chick with broken toes.

    Wow that's tons of useful info, thanks a lot. I also suspect the DE was a bad idea, I actually didn't know it's pretty much just silica which is super bad for humans too and will now only use it on my animals if there's no other option. . About the little one I ended up making her sock sling to...
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    11 days old: heavy breathing, air gasping ?! in chick with broken toes.

    Sorry for the ultra late update, it's been hard to have a life and take care of such a needy little fluff. So I did give her antibiotics and she stopped the sneezing but, the lack of breath and panting attack that night was due to heat, even though the temperature was around 33 Celsius. I put...
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    11 days old: heavy breathing, air gasping ?! in chick with broken toes.

    Yes, her crop is emptying. She's probably dying at the moment. Panting non stop whilst resting, barely moving, fast and non arrhythmic breath. It's very sad.
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    11 days old: heavy breathing, air gasping ?! in chick with broken toes.

    She breaths faster and keeps her mouth open for a couple second, panting, when she gets very fast breathing for some reason whilst just sitting down with wings hanging to the sides after trying to eat. I started doxycycline today.
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    11 days old: heavy breathing, air gasping ?! in chick with broken toes.

    Thank you for your answer. I am in Spain, vets that treat farm animals and birds are rare, and form my experience tend to give up on treating a little to easy... I had an issues with new born piglets (fever, neurological symptoms) and no vet wanted to come see them to the farm, I treated them...
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    11 days old: heavy breathing, air gasping ?! in chick with broken toes.

    Hey there, first time posting but already have read a lot and found extremely helpful info here, thank you guys. So the issue is that my 11 days old Sussex chick started yesterday breathing heavily and sneezing every now and then (1-3 times per 15minutes aprox), wiping her beak thoroughly and...
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