Hmm... eyes looked ok to me. I think we're just taking to spoon feeding her every day and hope that she improved over time. She looks happy and runs around. I'll keep an eye on her to see if anything changes.
That is a really good idea! I shall look at her eyes in the morning. That would really make sense. I did give her some ground up feed with water with a syringe. I put a little bit on my hand for her to peck and she was just completely missing it so the eyesight thing might have something to do...
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I have a strange question. My chick is 3 months old but she is not growing at all. She is like a third of the size of the others and they are all the same age. When she was growing she developed a hook beak which caused her lots of problems eating so over the course of the 3 months, we...
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We've also seperated her from the rest. I guess I would like to know whether I should feed her or not. As she needs to eat because she is so weak but not sure if I can if she's got sour crop??
Please help! My little baby chick is 11 weeks old. A couple of days ago she got really sleepy and really fluffed up. So I took her to the vet and she gave me some antibiotics to give her every morning and every night. She has made it through 2 nights but it's really not looking good. We have...
Yessssssssss she's ALIIIIIIIIIIIVE! One night down. Last night I wasn't so confident as she was looking pretty bad but I got up every 2 hours and gave her a drink of the water and this morning she was looking MUCH better. She even manged to wake me up with her chirping and jump out of the...
Thank you so much for your help!!
Ok, she did 1 big poo earlier. It was very watery and yellowish and I think I found a bit of orange or blood but it's hard to tell. Doesn't look like the pictures I found on the internet though. The second one was small but looked quite healthy. I got some...
I fed her what the chicken farmer gave me. They said that it would be fine for them. I think it's quite crushed up for them. I don't feed them anything else. When she was sick, I gave them all a tiny bit of egg, that was all. I do think maybe they eat their bedding sometimes though and maybe...
Great, thank you. Yes, I think she has cocci. The video in that link was very helpful. I've managed to talk the vet into coming in and giving me some medicine for her. However, if my chickybabe is on day 4 of the cocci disease, do you think she still has a chance if she gets the medicine today...
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My baby chick is 4 weeks old and she started yesterday to sit down all the time and sleep. Does anyone know what might cause this? I'm afraid that she is really sick but as it's Easter there's no vets open for a few days now!! Eep! She has no balance and just sits to the side all the...
Well, I thought I should update you in case someone else has the same problem. My poor little baby didn't make it :( Oh it was so saaaaad. I took her to the bird specialist twice. They gave me medicine and we were feeding her crushed up food and water with a syringe. On the second visit, the vet...
Thank you so much! This is great info. Ah, I'm so anxious and it's so relieving to have this forum to be able to get some wise information! Ok, now my problem is, my little chick isn't drinking ANY water now, even if I dip her beak in it. But she is still eating a bit. Do you think I can put it...
Thanks so much for your quick response! It doesn't look like vent gleet as her poo it solid white but it might be the baby chick version of it? I will look into gentian violet or blue-kote first thing in the morning and see if I can find it!
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Hi, our baby chicks are just over one week old and today I noticed that one of them had a white pooey bum. I thought it was pasty butt so we cleaned it off but then more kept coming out. Not a huge amount, just constant. She's also pecking A LOT at her butt, and after about 1 hour, she had...