I have a question....
This (the light one) is Berta, a chickie of great concern to me now.
A few days old with her supposedly littermate:
22 July:
This is taken 28 July:
And this is how it's been looking for the last week or so. These were taken today.
She and the blackie (Greta) are both a month old now.
In addition, she's always liked to sleep (from day 1) especially in my hands where it's warm, and she's looking for shelter under the black one's wing which the blackie does not accept.
She's also chirping as if complaining all the time - she's been doing that from the start but then we figured she's feeling cold, so we started putting them outside in their box (in our back garden in the shade) as the temperature there is much higher than in the house. For a while she seemed happy. (But she's always emotional and insists on her bird welfare rights as we used to laugh, LOL.)
She's eating now very selectively (I don't know before, I believe she was eating better, but now she doesn't show interest in the starter, only eats oat flakes (uncooked) and cooked rice (I make the parboiled) and also crazy about fresh cucumbers. The cucumbers are the first thing she checks out these days when she wakes up in the morning (when I uncover their crate).
She is not interested in boiled egg either. Yesterday I only managed to get her to fill her crop with the rice, nothing else seemed to do it for her. She is also interested in the food remains that fall from our greenfinche's crate but those grains come out the otehr end undigested.
She is pooping sometimes sort of ok and sometimes diarrhea. One can come 5 min after the other.
She mostly just wants to sleep now ALL the time, head under her little wing, or better yet in my arms where she can sleep undisturbed and warm.
She's not completely apathetic, she wakes up and runs to me when I call them for food, jumps out of her crate (even with some difficulty due to weakness, it seems, meaning she can't just fly to the door, she jumps and uses her beak to pull herself up). But then she gets tired and stands there and 'cries'.
Reading the posts here I assumed it MIGHT be cocci in some form so I am giving them in water since yesterday Sulfadimidine. I gave her some in her mouth (diluted with water as per instructions) via a syringe but she really resists so I only managed to do it twice yesterday and then dipped her beak in the bowl and made her take some this way.
I understand fully the concept of survival of the fittest but I would like to know if possibly I made a mistake with something and why something like this might occur, and most importantly what could be done to help her in any way if God is willing for her to continue.
If you have seen something like this or have any ideas or comments, they'd be much appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
Irena
This (the light one) is Berta, a chickie of great concern to me now.
A few days old with her supposedly littermate:


22 July:

This is taken 28 July:

And this is how it's been looking for the last week or so. These were taken today.

She and the blackie (Greta) are both a month old now.

In addition, she's always liked to sleep (from day 1) especially in my hands where it's warm, and she's looking for shelter under the black one's wing which the blackie does not accept.
She's also chirping as if complaining all the time - she's been doing that from the start but then we figured she's feeling cold, so we started putting them outside in their box (in our back garden in the shade) as the temperature there is much higher than in the house. For a while she seemed happy. (But she's always emotional and insists on her bird welfare rights as we used to laugh, LOL.)
She's eating now very selectively (I don't know before, I believe she was eating better, but now she doesn't show interest in the starter, only eats oat flakes (uncooked) and cooked rice (I make the parboiled) and also crazy about fresh cucumbers. The cucumbers are the first thing she checks out these days when she wakes up in the morning (when I uncover their crate).
She is not interested in boiled egg either. Yesterday I only managed to get her to fill her crop with the rice, nothing else seemed to do it for her. She is also interested in the food remains that fall from our greenfinche's crate but those grains come out the otehr end undigested.
She is pooping sometimes sort of ok and sometimes diarrhea. One can come 5 min after the other.
She mostly just wants to sleep now ALL the time, head under her little wing, or better yet in my arms where she can sleep undisturbed and warm.
She's not completely apathetic, she wakes up and runs to me when I call them for food, jumps out of her crate (even with some difficulty due to weakness, it seems, meaning she can't just fly to the door, she jumps and uses her beak to pull herself up). But then she gets tired and stands there and 'cries'.
Reading the posts here I assumed it MIGHT be cocci in some form so I am giving them in water since yesterday Sulfadimidine. I gave her some in her mouth (diluted with water as per instructions) via a syringe but she really resists so I only managed to do it twice yesterday and then dipped her beak in the bowl and made her take some this way.
I understand fully the concept of survival of the fittest but I would like to know if possibly I made a mistake with something and why something like this might occur, and most importantly what could be done to help her in any way if God is willing for her to continue.
If you have seen something like this or have any ideas or comments, they'd be much appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
Irena
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