Baby chick suddenly crashing (need help)

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Little chick made it through the night and seems to be doing waaay better. I got up once midway through the night to check and all seemed well, so I think we are progressing in the right direction.

Heading out to the store to get some proper vitamin booster to add to the water.
 
Ok, back from the feed store. They had the rooster booster "vitamins and electrolytes with lactobacillus" so that's what I picked up and have swapped out their water with this.

I know you're not supposed to do electrolytes too many days in a row... would leaving this in for today and swapping back to regular water tomorrow be a safe choice? Then add it back in depending on if they act weak again?
 
One step forward one step back I'm afraid.


Little chick started the day out strong but seems to be going down again. Its so strange, looking at the timestamp of my first post here, the first crashed happened at the exact same time of day.

Now it seems to be favoring one leg, its holding it up at the end of the video.

Still eating, drinking, and pooping normally.
 
Keep doing what u doing syringe water feed etc if have to maybe some extra protein little bit scrambled egg cut up small do u have chick grit to help them digest better ? Xx
 
clickchicks said:
I got a few baby chicks on the 25th. Earlier than I was anticipating, but I already had everything set up for the chicks I'd planned to get in May so I figured why not.

They were from my local feed store, who gets them from Ideal. I tried to pick ones that looked active and healthy (bright eyes, clean butts). I ended up losing one within the first 24 hours, which was hard but I figured was par the course for chicks.

Now I've got another one going down hill fast. This chick seemed totally normal this morning, eating, drinking, running around. Just now I checked on them, a few hours later, and this little one was just sitting under the brooder with its wings slightly extended. I tried to nudge them forward and they are able to walk, but are very weak and fall over after a few moments. Here's a video:


They are still trying to eat and drink, but the other chicks are picking on it (you can sort of see that in the vid).

Just for background: Chicks originated from Ideal, vaccinated for mareks (which we have within our adult flock). The brooder is in an area where my current birds have never been and I've been very careful to only interact with the chicks after a thorough scrub down.

I'm using an EcoGlow brooder plate. When the first chick died, I did a 3 day course of Corid just in case (the chick that passed had very loose, orange stools). Today was their first day without corid. This is the food they are on (ground up with a coffee grinder to make it nice and small). Again, as of this morning they were all eating, drinking, and pooping normally. The other two chicks are behaving normally.

Please help.
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I see green in the feed. Seems like mold.

What brand?
 

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