5day old silkie crooked neck and now unable to move

[azygous]

If you give the E with egg yolk, you do not need to add selenium.

 

[Clementine2022]

This chick has been perfect up til this morning! I noticed it belly up kicking and chirping loudly. I turned it over and now it's neck is turned sideways.
I spoke with the breeder and she feels sure it either got pecked on the head or it hit uts head on the brooder plate.
I tried to force poultry cell down its beak...I sure hope I haven't made things worse for it...not realizing they have an air hole under their tongue and I could cause it to choke.
Any help is greatly appreciated!!!

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• Gammas Bearded Babies
• Nov 3, 2022

praying for your baby

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

If you give the E with egg yolk, you do not need to add selenium.

Ok I kept workin with em and they are finally eating some of it...all of em except the FTT chick.
It pooped last night without crying but is back to just a constant low cry this morning and didn't wanna take many drops of molasses water.
Is there anything else I can do for this chick at all?
It does eat and drink but nothing like as often as the other 4. It stands under the brooder plate almost all the time.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

praying for your baby

Thank you!

 

[azygous]

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.

 

[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

Ok...bout how much warm water to sugar and how much coconut oil ?
Every hour?! Whew
And just stop the molasses water?
I can't so the vit B cause I'm treating them all with corid cuz or the bloody poo.

 

[azygous]

Stop the molasses. Sprinkle some sugar into the Corid water, a teaspoon to a cup of water. Watch to see if this chick is drinking any. If you do not see it take a drink after watching for fifteen minutes, it needs to be syringed. You need to get about a teaspoon of coconut oil into the chick. Have it measured out and chill it. Feed slivers of the solid oil until it's in the chick, then you're done. This should encourage some healthy pooping and it can make the chick feel much better and more active.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Stop the molasses. Sprinkle some sugar into the Corid water, a teaspoon to a cup of water. Watch to see if this chick is drinking any. If you do not see it take a drink after watching for fifteen minutes, it needs to be syringed. You need to get about a teaspoon of coconut oil into the chick. Have it measured out and chill it. Feed slivers of the solid oil until it's in the chick, then you're done. This should encourage some healthy pooping and it can make the chick feel much better and more active.

Ok soon as grandbabies go home I will do this and post back tomorrow how it is doing. Thank u again!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Stop the molasses. Sprinkle some sugar into the Corid water, a teaspoon to a cup of water. Watch to see if this chick is drinking any. If you do not see it take a drink after watching for fifteen minutes, it needs to be syringed. You need to get about a teaspoon of coconut oil into the chick. Have it measured out and chill it. Feed slivers of the solid oil until it's in the chick, then you're done. This should encourage some healthy pooping and it can make the chick feel much better and more active.

The coconut oil even cold melts to nothing before I can get it to even notice it much less eat it...can I just put it in its food as a liquid?

 

[azygous]

Sure. Any way to get it into her.

When I need to dose a chicken with coconut oil and it's a warm day orI'm in a warm house, I place the measured oil in a small dish of ice cubes to keep the oil solid.