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    Traumatized chicken is afraid of other chickens

    Update on Phoenix: I decided not to do anything different. All of our other birds were the same age, and had already accepted her. So we left things alone. For a few more weeks, I continued to move her out of the nesting box and onto the roost nightly. She seemed to calm down just a bit more...
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    Traumatized chicken is afraid of other chickens

    We have recently added a fourth chicken to our flock with a sad history. Some friends of ours had four wonderful Ameraucanas that were more than a year old and tried to introduce two more much younger birds from a nearby flock. Things went VERY badly, but the larger of the two frequently...
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    2 chick looks sick, behaving very strangely.

    According to the experts, cocci runs its course in about 6 days, only half of which are usually symptomatic. At the end, the chick either survives and becomes immune, or dies, usually of blood loss. They usually spend the last day or two laying on their side, pooping some super nasty stuff. Our...
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    2 chick looks sick, behaving very strangely.

    I read through the symptoms of cocci again, and she rally doesn't seem to match. The other birds with her appear perfectly healthy. All poop is normal, excepting that hers are very small on account of very little eating. Yesterday evening at last, her heaving breaths remained an exaggerated...
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    2 chick looks sick, behaving very strangely.

    This bird keeps surviving somehow. She isn't growing. She doesn't move around much. She just barely seems to subsist. But her feathers are growing and maturing, which is starting to look a bit odd on this bird that still about the size of a 2-week-old.
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    2 chick looks sick, behaving very strangely.

    Yeah. I understand the concept. I just don't think I can make it work in our little box and still have food and water available to both sides. So we just went ahead with our plan and put everybody in together. She got pecked a lot, but she did use the hiding places at first and it wasn't as bad...
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    2 chick looks sick, behaving very strangely.

    Well, perhaps independent then of established pecking order, one of the younger pair is an absolutely beautiful Araucana who had both of the older chicks cowering within 15 minutes of her arrival at about 4 days old. We've named her Valkyrie. She's aggressive and goes for the eyes. It was during...
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    2 chick looks sick, behaving very strangely.

    Today is the last day in the recommended 7 day course of antibiotics. But rather than continuing to progress, she seems to have regressed in the past few days. The heaving breathing has returned to about the same level as shown in the video (which is not quite as bad as at its peak). She...
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    2 chick looks sick, behaving very strangely.

    Her breathing continues to improve, and I can now distinctly see growth, though she's much smaller than the other chick her age. Tail feathers are coming in. We have had a couple days warm enough for a trip to the back yard where she has delighted in catching a few bugs. Yum. We have three days...
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    2 chick looks sick, behaving very strangely.

    She seems to be improving! Between my first post and when we started administering Duramycin, she had deteriorated further, slept standing up in a corner, and was panting heavily. We separated her and the other chick she had been with the longest from the younger two and gave Duramycin to both...
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    2 chick looks sick, behaving very strangely.

    Thank you so much for your reply! I checked her out again, looking for puffy spots like you suggested. I definitely don't feel that kind of thing. The puffiest parts I feel are the crop and he belly near the vent (large intestines I guess?). The clicking sound is very subtle and occasional. The...
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    2 chick looks sick, behaving very strangely.

    Thank you so much!
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    2 chick looks sick, behaving very strangely.

    My wife heard a bit of a clicking in her chirp this morning. "Clicking" ended up being a good search term for what looks like might be the same behavior. It led us to this thread which suggests this may be a respiratory infection. So we've started her on Duramycin this morning. Still hoping...
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    2 chick looks sick, behaving very strangely.

    That title is supposed to say 2 *week old* chick. There's not some way to change the title of the thread, is there?
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    2 chick looks sick, behaving very strangely.

    I'm not sure how to describe the sort of heaving, rocking motion that began two days ago and keeps getting more pronounced in our baby Barred Rock, so it's hard to search the internet. I took a video and uploaded it to YouTube in the hope that someone here might know what is wrong. (So sorry for...
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