Chick with prolapse!!!! HELP?

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I have a chick with bad prolapse. Here's pics. They are a day old. The one with the big one has trouble walking but is other ways alert. He also had an issue trying to drink. He gasps and makes awful clicking noises in his chest. Could he be internally deformed??

All but 2 chicks hatched with this.

What can I do? Will he grow into thus or will it close off on its own?

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This is the pic of him. The other two are the other two chicks who seam to be normal so far.
 
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OK I've turned the bator into a holding pen so it stays clean.

Any idea on the clicking though? Some of the others do this a tad but not nearly so much! And its also not so loud!

Is he OK?
 
I've heard an aspirated chick clicking. He may have swallowed too much at once. No don't put the chick in with the others because they are likely to peck at it. Can you put a divider in the brooder so everyone can get heat, if not you will need to scrub the incubator and use bleach or disinfectant , rinse out well and put clean paper towel on the bottom.
 
Fancychooklady said:
I've heard an aspirated chick clicking. He may have swallowed too much at once. No don't put the chick in with the others because they are likely to peck at it. Can you put a divider in the brooder so everyone can get heat, if not you will need to scrub the incubator and use bleach or disinfectant , rinse out well and put clean paper towel on the bottom.
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No but i can change out the paper towels. Is it ok to keep the other two with it in there as well? They have the same but smaller, the others that i put outside last night have near totally absorbed the bulges now.

I keep my inc very clean and even now I covered the old with new layers of towel. I can change all that out, I keep paper towel all the time because of the mess.

When he tries to drink he keeps gulping like it won't go down. I thought maybe he was deformed and aspirated, idk.
 
Fancychooklady said:
Do you keep them in a brooder under heat? Even though your bator might look clean it's the bacteria that will kill the chick.
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Yes but no dividers, chips in a cardboard box with a light bulb. So far they haven't needed the big heat lamp, they seem to like the light, the lamp was too hot and burnt the dust that would land on it :/

I don't know why there would be more bacteria in the bator than the brooder.

EDIT: so since your offline now. I changed out the paper towel in the bator and put some medicated starter (all i have ATM) and water with save a chick in it for them. Applied more antibiotic to all 3.

Guess that will have to hold them for the night. I'll have my fingers crossed they all look good in the morning!
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