2 week old chick diarrhea

[sscaria]

She is having a hard time pooping. I took a video, but I don’t know how to upload it.

unfortunately, you cannot upload videos onto BYC. one way to do so, though, is to post the video on youtube and attach the link. or you can upload the video to google drive, make the file available to anyone with a link, and then share the link with us(If doing this method, use a personal email, not a company/managed email!!)

 

[brahmamamamak]

Update 2:30. She has pooped twice more on her own and I watched her eat an drink a bit.

unfortunately, you cannot upload videos onto BYC. one way to do so, though, is to post the video on youtube and attach the link. or you can upload the video to google drive, make the file available to anyone with a link, and then share the link with us(If doing this method, use a personal email, not a company/managed email!!)

Okay I will remember in the future.

 

[Eggcessive]

Glad that she is pooping, eating and drinking.

 

[brahmamamamak]

She does keep calling to her flock mates. Wondering if she continues on this course if I should let her be with them tonight and reevaluate in the morning and separate if necessary. Any thoughts?

 

[brahmamamamak]

Glad that she is pooping, eating and drinking.

Always a good thing

 

[brahmamamamak]

Update. I did put her with Her flock mates last night. Watched her eat and drink water. This morning’s butt check was better. I did see her pass stool on her own and it was of the normal consistency. She did eat a little and took a swallow of water. I still think I am going to separate her and the other small cochin for a couple of hours in the other brooder. Give them some cooked egg yolk along with the medicated feed.

 

[brahmamamamak]

I would just like to do a follow up on my little blue cochin, and also hope to get some advice. Thanks to all the suggestions I was able to put my little blue back with her flock mates two days after initially seeing her difficulty and prolapse from difficulty passing her stool. Fast forward to April 12 when everyone went out for their first night in the coop. Since my little blues difficulties, I have kept a close eye on her. The morning of April 14 I noticed her straining and the prolapse once again. I immediately scooped her up and brought her into the house and put her back in the bigger brooder. (I do have seven silver laced Cochin chicks hatched on April 3 and I will get to them in a minute in my smaller brooder. ) Everyone got started on water with Corid. Once again, I was hitting the threads on the BackyardChickens forum and started my little blue with a Epson salt soak followed by coconut oil and Cortizone cream 3 times a day. The prolapse just got larger as time went on, and she strained more and more. I decided that if I didn’t help her out, she certainly would die. So I used Q-tips and went in very gently and started to help her extract her stool. Which definitely seem to give her immediate relief. I continued with the soaking the coconut oil and Cortizone cream and the extraction for three more days. I gave her a laxative of Epson salts and water also gave her frozen coconut oil bits and had decided on the 17th that I should not help her pass her stool, that the muscles needed to start working on their own, and I would only help her if it got very bad, but low and behold on the 19th she pooped !!! I’ve never been so excited to see chicken poop. So here I am writing on the 22nd and happy that she is eating, drinking and pooping. Thursday was the last day for the Corid in their water. So now I’m trying to get weight back on her. I’ve been crushing up mealworms and having her eat them also scrambling eggs. I also started her and the other chicks in the coop back on water with electrolytes and probiotics. She has lost feathers around her vent area, obviously due to the skin stretching I am guessing she may have picked them out herself. So now any suggestions to help in getting weight back on her would be most appreciated. Now I come to my thoughts about getting her back into the coop. I am not willing to put her out there until she’s grown some feathers back and has gained some weight so I am wondering if at one point I should introduce her to my silver laced cochin chicks who are almost 3 weeks old now. Then put her back in the coop when I introduce the younger chicks. Baby blue is about 6 1/2 weeks old now, but is so tiny that my silver laced girls are rapidly getting close to her size. Any thoughts and suggestions would greatly be appreciated.

 

[brahmamamamak]

I made a executive decision to try my baby blue in the coop this morning with her flock mates. This morning makes 11 days since I pulled her from coop and her flock mates. All was okay when I put the chick stix treat in. I pulled it out and watched for outside the coop. I was done when 4 of her flock mates were chasing her. I retrieved her to the pet carrier and returned her to the bigger brooder and decided to start putting my 3,week old silver laced Cochins in the bigger brooder 2 at a time ending with the last 3. (I have 7) Best thing I’ve ever done. Baby blue who is 7 weeks old tomorrow was doing her chicken purr. I’m not crying…you’re crying!!. I will attach pictures. I ordered from a California hatchery November last year and had a drop shipment. Another thread should you be interested. I ordered 12 Blue standard Cochins. Box had 2 blue polish and 10 blue cochin. sadly, within 48 hours I lost the smallest cochin and the smallest new Polish. I’m guessing, for some reason between the order at AV hatchery in California and the drop shipment the box that I checked for no substitutes was not checked off hence the blue Polish. But I am including pictures of my baby blue, because I’m beginning to wonder that she might be a cochin bantam. she is way smaller than her flock mates. The first picture is with her flock mates, she is sandwiched between the blue Polish on the right, and a blue cochin on the left. The second is with the three week old silver lace Cochins.