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lawatt said:
OK, here's a silly question: how on earth do you get a chicken to open its beak, to put the syringe in, when she doesn't want to? i tried dipping her peak in the water, but she just shoot her beak off and looked insulted. could not get her to open her mouth for the syringe.

any suggestions?
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This is not easy with one person. And as deb said, and I should have, either just dribble it in her mouth or make sure it is BELOW her breathing opening. I had a tiny tiny syringe when purples was sick and I was feeding her and I learned to get it below since i had to feed her everything she would take. But the first few times it took 2 of us. Schniffler was NOT HAPPY when I did her. Will she take it if you dribble on her beak? that is supposed to be reflex. If not I tried to get the syringe in between after holding her bottom beak. you can see the hole but this only works with a skinny thing.
 
Yes, it would take a long time with a LF, but I'd use an insulin syringe, but even better yet would be if you had one of the curved tips they use for feeding orphan birds. Fits a regular syringe, very long and tiny point and curved so your hands are out of the way and you can see what you're doing.

Deb
 
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chiqita said:
This is not easy with one person. And as deb said, and I should have, either just dribble it in her mouth or make sure it is BELOW her breathing opening. I had a tiny tiny syringe when purples was sick and I was feeding her and I learned to get it below since i had to feed her everything she would take. But the first few times it took 2 of us. Schniffler was NOT HAPPY when I did her. Will she take it if you dribble on her beak? that is supposed to be reflex. If not I tried to get the syringe in between after holding her bottom beak. you can see the hole but this only works with a skinny thing.
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when i dribbled water on her beak she just shook her head to shake it off -- none went in. and i don't have a curved syringe, just a teeny ml one.

i've been scrambling to comment on some legal documents re: Point Reyes/oyster farm all morning, but i'll go try again to pry her mouth open a bit -- definitely will not squirt water down her throat where she might inhale it!
 
and another update, i've discovered I cannot hold her AND the syringe AND pry her mouth open -- i'd need a third hand. BUT when i put her back down in her little enclosure, facing the waterer, she took a little sip. and she seemed *slightly* less catatonic than earlier, she at least had moved a little bit -- i think getting her warm is helping.

thank you ALL for your help with this!
 
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