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    Five day old chick needs help!

    Try what rbaker said. When our little duck was dying we did the percussions and massage like you burp a baby, we did head down with rocking tapping her back lightly and stroking her spine from top to bottom and the duck sneezed/drained fluid from her nostrils and her mouth. Rubbed her tummy...
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    Five day old chick needs help!

    Green poop coming out is a good thing. It's better coming out than staying in.Be sure to change out the padding. We keep hay in our rescue cages and place a clean cotton cloth like a dishcloth or baby diaper or paper towels, something to catch the poop and remove as needed so the baby doesn't...
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    Five day old chick needs help!

    Tell me about the homeopathic cold and flu remedies you have, maybe there is something that would help. I have a Boericke Manual here and you can probably get it online maybe as well. Does this site have a live chat?
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    Newbie from the Deep South

    Thanks for the welcomes! We have all sorts of chickens. The biggest boy is Farina Two Toes. His name was Farah originally because we thought he was a she and his feathers reminded me of you know who. When we got Farina with the other 3 brahmas from the co-op in Ackerman they were supposed to all...
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    Five day old chick needs help!

    Hi! I'm not sure how to treat respiratory illnesses in chickens but when our 3 week old rouen duck started gasping 4 days ago I gave her some osha root herbal complex and some homeopathic mold/yeast/dust remedy plus rescue remedy on her feet and neck and she went from looking half dead to...
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    Orphan Rouens, 1 is ill, please help, thankyou

    Hi and thank you! We have the baby ducks in a complete enclosure-netting on top. About a week ago we saw a chicken hawk fly over and when the dogs saw it they went crazy and started patrolling around the chicken yards. That's why we think Uncle Cracker got scooped up. Aunt Smacky got under the...
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    Newbie from the Deep South

    Hello, Everybody! Yall have a great forum and we've learned so much over the past year or so. We are raising 32 chickens for the eggs and to make babies. We also have 7 little orphan rouen ducks. One of the ducks has become sickly and about a dozen of the newer chickens we just bought from the...
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    Orphan Rouens, 1 is ill, please help, thankyou

    And what about antibiotics? Will the tetracycline help or do I need to get something else? How about colloidal silver, we have some of that in the fridge?
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    Orphan Rouens, 1 is ill, please help, thankyou

    Hi. Thanks, what about the electrolytes, is that like gator aid or pedi-lite for baby children? Can ducks get that green booger-bubble affliction that our chickens just came down with? Thanks for the quick response, I'm overwhelmed and don't know what to do.
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    Orphan Rouens, 1 is ill, please help, thankyou

    Hi. This last spring we got a girl and a boy Rouen. Uncle Cracker and Aunt Smacky had 9 eggs which we set under a cochin. 7 eggs hatched, 2 didn't make it. The new babies are a few days older than 3 weeks. The youngest and smallest isn't thriving and has become ill. Aunt Smacky died just as we...
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