5day old silkie crooked neck and now unable to move

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Two things I would do with a FTT chick like yours. Warm sugar water and coconut oil. Both need to be stuffed into the tiny beak. Can you find help?

The baby needs glucose desperately. And it needs hydration. This sugar water, with Nutri-drench or Poultry Cell, needs to be syringed directly into the crop. To do that, you need to hold the chick in one hand while holding the beak open. Perhaps a helper could perform this task with two hands while you syringe the sugar water and vitamins into the crop. See the photo below where the syringe needs to be placed in the right side of the tiny throat. After each syringe dose, let the chick close its beak to swallow any in the throat. Try to get a tablespoon into the chick each hour.

The second thing is coconut oil. Chill the oil until solid, then shave off tiny slivers and place them one at a time inside the beak on the tongue. Let the chick swallow after each sliver. Get a teaspoon full into the chick. This should do the job better than molasses which acts more to stimulate the intestines to empty than to lubricate the digestive tract and soften the contents.View attachment 3316485

Little baby ate pretty good today...finally ate some wet mash even! I moved it to where she stands on top of the feed bowl and she ate some. She drank quite a bit of sugar water.
Now she's trying hard to poop and just cries. I tried every way I could think of to get the coconut oil in her beak. She's got a lot of fight left in her. I got 2 little bits into her beak after a long fight with her.
I wonder if I could just put it in their mash?

 

[azygous]

Try it. But be more liberal with the oil than the food so the food doesn't dominate. In other words, use the crumbles to disguise the oil, the oil being the dominant substance.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Have you examined very closely the bottoms of the feet and between the toes? That leg motion is what I see when a chicken has crusty goop between the toes or a scab on the leg that they sense and are trying to shake it off by kicking backward with the leg.

I call it the "azygous rule" when one chick is behaving a certain way, it is probably an internal problem, but when multiple chicks are behaving in the same manner, it's more likely to be environmental. Perhaps they've got food between the toes or wet bedding on their feet.

I agree, I'd inspect their little fluffy feet.

As always = In the Whole Thread Very good advice from @azygous

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Little FTT baby had 2 big poops Friday @azygous ! I sure thought we were making a good turn here with her!
But then yesterday all she did was stay wrapped in a little blankie and sleep all day. I thought she'd pass on in the night but then this morning she was trying to walk to get food. She would make a really loud chirp like it hurt and then try again then stands just chirping loudly and goes back to brooder plate.
Are there any articles on helping an FTT baby or is this information yall have been so helpful to share about all that can be done?
You can see the size difference here and she's 2 weeks old today.