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    BABY CHICKS GASPING FOR AIR "HELP"

    Make sure you give WARM water, with sugar and crushed garlic in it. Temperature is really important--as with any sick baby.
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    BABY CHICKS GASPING FOR AIR "HELP"

    I believe this is Coccidiosis. It's very common when they're young and easily chilled. Sugar water with crushed garlic in it seems to help. I combined sugar, water, and as much crushed garlic juice as I found palatable and then used an eyedropper to put it down our chick's throat. It seemed...
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    Gasping chick... Solution found!

    So sorry that the sugar water didn't work with the one chick. Ours went through the same thing, but we didn't use sugar water alone and that seems to have helped. Not sure if it's gape worms or coccidiosis or something else, but if anyone is still reading this or going through it, you might...
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    BABY CHICKS GASPING FOR AIR "HELP"

    One of ours did this at 15 days old, gasping non-stop as if she was screaming, but no sound. I'm brand-new to raising chicks, so please do your own research, but this is what we did, and she seems to have recovered. Hope it works the same for a 4-day old, but I really don't know. Mostly they...
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