Baby Chicks need help

[Annabelleshome]

DE is not dangerous. You or I can eat it. It is just not good to inhale it.. sprinkle it under the bedding on a regular basis.. under the straw or under whatever bedding you use. I hope they are doing better. Keep them separate, keep a clean coop area, keep them warm, Keep them clean. etc.

 

[Haunted55]

Thanks 10chicks, I do not think I will use the DE than. I have kids and other animals and do not want to inhale anything that is dangerous to me.
I think they are getting plenty of water. I have 40 chicks and 6 turkeys and I have two large water feeders that I change the water twice day. The water never runs out when I go to change it.

I took a picture of one of my sick chickies this morning after they have gone overnight without me doing anything to clean it up



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This looks like Gleet. https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/vent-gleet-aka-nasty-chicken-butt

I've been going through this with my flock but they are much older than yours. the thing i found to work the best for this is a human probiotic called Floragen3. I'd try any of the probiotics right now but if they don't seem to help, go to your pharmacy and see if they have it. It has to be kept refrigerated so you'd have to ask for it.

Please check and smell your feed. Are there clumps in it? Does it have an off kind of smell to it? If you can, I would try switching to another brand of their feed right now. Keep up with the medicated feed, you do not want a cocci on top of this. I wouldn't bother with an antibiotic as it could just make this worse. Yogurt isn't a good idea at this age either. They don't need the extra calcium in their diets and it can cause problems later on for them. Something else...1 250mg. vitamin C tablet in 1 gallon of water. The vitamin C works better than the ACV for this, as it will acidify the whole track rather than just the crop. I also wouldn't add any other vitamins right now as you do not want the amprolium in the feed to be negated due to an over abundance of thiamin in their diet.