Anything else I can do for a "runt" baby silkie?

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Here are 2 previous posts:
(Thank you to those who have been following me and this chick)

1:

My baby chick silkie ingested a drop of dawn dish soap???
Is it fatal???
what should i watch for??? im so scared
Please help!!
The chick is a week old bantam silke

2:
I need help she is lethargic. She is only moving around and standing if I encourage her but she won't walk.
She is drinking water and drinking sugar water I have and she is drinking a mash I made for her. She is just so abnormally tired and doesn't move around much and seems to sleep.
She is pooing okay and normal.
The other chick she is brooding with is thriving.
Both a week and a half old now

3.TODAY!
I'm afraid it might be Cocci so I took her to the vet today.
He said her Gullet is full but she looks weak w wings hanging a bit.
(Ive been bringing mash up to her and she eats and drinks water also)
Weighed her and for 10 days old she is underweight for a bantam chick.
I told him about the other chick (Think he is a Roo by his attitude and stance and size he is 2 times bigger) and how he bullies her a bit and prevents eating by pushing her away at times.
They are from the same group of hatchlings.
He told me that sometimes they need 2 hens to be with to let up on the one while he is pecking/dominating on the other.
So he asked me to separate them until he sees her again.
I told him her poo was normal and brought in a sample for fecal testing.
Results are in tomorrow, but in the mean time he gave me immune system drops for every 12 hours and some rescue feed 3 times a day with syringe.
Im also keeping sugar water close by and have moved the lamp a few times and she seems to stop peeping at about 92 degrees on thermometer.
I have an appointment scheduled for next Monday.
Ill update about the test results tomorrow!
MY QUESTION IS:

Is there anything else I can do for her to make her more comfortable or any remedies I can try?
Please let me know what you think.
 
Here are 2 previous posts:
(Thank you to those who have been following me and this chick)

1:

My baby chick silkie ingested a drop of dawn dish soap???
Is it fatal???
what should i watch for??? im so scared
Please help!!
The chick is a week old bantam silke

2:
I need help she is lethargic. She is only moving around and standing if I encourage her but she won't walk.
She is drinking water and drinking sugar water I have and she is drinking a mash I made for her. She is just so abnormally tired and doesn't move around much and seems to sleep.
She is pooing okay and normal.
The other chick she is brooding with is thriving.
Both a week and a half old now

3.TODAY!
I'm afraid it might be Cocci so I took her to the vet today.
He said her Gullet is full but she looks weak w wings hanging a bit.
(Ive been bringing mash up to her and she eats and drinks water also)
Weighed her and for 10 days old she is underweight for a bantam chick.
I told him about the other chick (Think he is a Roo by his attitude and stance and size he is 2 times bigger) and how he bullies her a bit and prevents eating by pushing her away at times.
They are from the same group of hatchlings.
He told me that sometimes they need 2 hens to be with to let up on the one while he is pecking/dominating on the other.
So he asked me to separate them until he sees her again.
I told him her poo was normal and brought in a sample for fecal testing.
Results are in tomorrow, but in the mean time he gave me immune system drops for every 12 hours and some rescue feed 3 times a day with syringe.
Im also keeping sugar water close by and have moved the lamp a few times and she seems to stop peeping at about 92 degrees on thermometer.
I have an appointment scheduled for next Monday.
Ill update about the test results tomorrow!
MY QUESTION IS:

Is there anything else I can do for her to make her more comfortable or any remedies I can try?
Please let me know what you think.
Hi going thru something similar with my own Silkie chicks... But I suggest putting a little suger in some water and giving it to her. She should perk up. :)
 
I had suggested Poultry NutriDrench or vitamins with electrolytes on another of your threads. That would be so much better than sugar water. Bantams are very delicate the first couple of weeks. If your vet should start Corid (amprollium, coxoid) for treatment of coccidiosis, then stop vitamins just for the treatment and resume after finishing. You may separate the other bantam just with some screen. That way they can still see each other but she will get more food.

Also it is best to stay with one thread. People ansering you have to go back and look up what you have said and what answers were given to know what is going on. You have made a list of your threads which is helpful, but I would stay with one about the same chicken until you end the thread. It is much more simple to follow.
 
I had suggested Poultry NutriDrench or vitamins with electrolytes on another of your threads. That would be so much better than sugar water. Bantams are very delicate the first couple of weeks. If your vet should start Corid (amprollium, coxoid) for treatment of coccidiosis, then stop vitamins just for the treatment and resume after finishing. You may separate the other bantam just with some screen. That way they can still see each other but she will get more food.

Also it is best to stay with one thread. People ansering you have to go back and look up what you have said and what answers were given to know what is going on. You have made a list of your threads which is helpful, but I would stay with one about the same chicken until you end the thread. It is much more simple to follow.
Okay I will stay here from now on for this chick.
Thank you!
I'm going on Amazon right now to order the nutridrench!
 
I don't:( I went to the one close by but their chicken products are limited. Sugar water until tomorrow night.
 
Many farm and feed stores have packets of vitamins and electrolytes for many species of farm animals.
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