Hi,
Thank you for your forum very good info! We are new to the world of chickens but we do love ours! We have 3 Ayam Cemani and 40 Isa brown in our farm. Recently we tried our first incubation of an Ayam Cemani egg from our farm and this where we may be having an issue with one of our baby chicks.
This was our first incubation so the temps may not have been perfect during the process. We only had 1 egg hatch our little baby chick hatched on day 25th. On this day after it was born we moved it out of the incubator to our brooder after a couple of hours we kept the temp around 35C.
However since it was born it has been breathing real heavy its not temperature because we tried moving the bulb around and it would follow the bulb and sit right under it. I sometimes hear a tick when it breaths and it does not eat nor drink on its own.
Here are the details maybe you guys can help:
1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.)
Ayam Cemani, 3 days old. Could be skinnier since it only eats from a syringe.
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
Lethargic and breathing heavy. Sometimes I hear a sort of Tick sound when it breaths. It could be shortly after we feed it with a syringe. I also sometimes find it laying with its neck stretched out. Also when it eats from the syringe it feels as she is gasping for air or stretching her neck. Walks ok, but sometimes a bit clumsy. It also chirps sometimes. I feel it kind of leans forward sometimes.
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms?
Since birth.
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms?
No others hatched.
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma.
No not really.
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
Not really. Maybe temps in the incubator were off?
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.
Yes from a syringe. I tried a little raw yolk, sugar water and a vet recently gave me some medicated food but not necessarily for chickens more for canary emergencies. We live in Costa Rica so the meds you normally recommend here are not available.
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.
Looks normal white now but greenish first 24 hours.
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far?
Today we started with antibiotics.
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet?
We took it to a vet but he does not have much experience with Chickens, more with other types of birds. We want to see if it will survive or if we will need to put it down.
11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
See this link here for videos : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1--9nRkulyQFGk7UHigW9cMwcvDx8elIU?usp=sharing
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use
Cardboard broader, initial with shavings but now towels ( in case the shavings were causing issues)
Thank you for the help!
Thank you for your forum very good info! We are new to the world of chickens but we do love ours! We have 3 Ayam Cemani and 40 Isa brown in our farm. Recently we tried our first incubation of an Ayam Cemani egg from our farm and this where we may be having an issue with one of our baby chicks.
This was our first incubation so the temps may not have been perfect during the process. We only had 1 egg hatch our little baby chick hatched on day 25th. On this day after it was born we moved it out of the incubator to our brooder after a couple of hours we kept the temp around 35C.
However since it was born it has been breathing real heavy its not temperature because we tried moving the bulb around and it would follow the bulb and sit right under it. I sometimes hear a tick when it breaths and it does not eat nor drink on its own.
Here are the details maybe you guys can help:
1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.)
Ayam Cemani, 3 days old. Could be skinnier since it only eats from a syringe.
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
Lethargic and breathing heavy. Sometimes I hear a sort of Tick sound when it breaths. It could be shortly after we feed it with a syringe. I also sometimes find it laying with its neck stretched out. Also when it eats from the syringe it feels as she is gasping for air or stretching her neck. Walks ok, but sometimes a bit clumsy. It also chirps sometimes. I feel it kind of leans forward sometimes.
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms?
Since birth.
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms?
No others hatched.
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma.
No not really.
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
Not really. Maybe temps in the incubator were off?
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.
Yes from a syringe. I tried a little raw yolk, sugar water and a vet recently gave me some medicated food but not necessarily for chickens more for canary emergencies. We live in Costa Rica so the meds you normally recommend here are not available.
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.
Looks normal white now but greenish first 24 hours.
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far?
Today we started with antibiotics.
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet?
We took it to a vet but he does not have much experience with Chickens, more with other types of birds. We want to see if it will survive or if we will need to put it down.
11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
See this link here for videos : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1--9nRkulyQFGk7UHigW9cMwcvDx8elIU?usp=sharing
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use
Cardboard broader, initial with shavings but now towels ( in case the shavings were causing issues)
Thank you for the help!
