I have some silkie chicks that are about one month old. It was our first brood. One of them started kind of gasping about a week after she was born. We were using pine bedding and at first I thought she had swallowed some or something. It seemed like it became not so bad.
Well, 3 weeks later she's still gasping, and she is HALF the size of the rest of her siblings.Pot Pie eats, she is the first to do everything and is very smart, but she is apparantally spending all her energy breathing.
We took her to the vet last week and they gave her 3 different antibiotics.
Vet says no obstruction, and we don't think it's infectious as she's the only one.
Metronidazole (100 mg/ml) .04 cc once daily
fluconazole (25 mg/ML) .04 twice daily
SMZ-TMP (48 mg/ml) .06 twice daily
After a week on antibiotics no change. Of course the vet once us to come back and spend $100 on more testing (we just spent over $100 on the visit, basic test and antibiotics!).
Any help or ideas?
I read through the sticky but having a hard time pinpointing it and I don't want to give her any other medicine on top of this and kill her or anything.
Worms perhaps? How would you tell?
Well, 3 weeks later she's still gasping, and she is HALF the size of the rest of her siblings.Pot Pie eats, she is the first to do everything and is very smart, but she is apparantally spending all her energy breathing.
We took her to the vet last week and they gave her 3 different antibiotics.
Vet says no obstruction, and we don't think it's infectious as she's the only one.
Metronidazole (100 mg/ml) .04 cc once daily
fluconazole (25 mg/ML) .04 twice daily
SMZ-TMP (48 mg/ml) .06 twice daily
After a week on antibiotics no change. Of course the vet once us to come back and spend $100 on more testing (we just spent over $100 on the visit, basic test and antibiotics!).
Any help or ideas?
I read through the sticky but having a hard time pinpointing it and I don't want to give her any other medicine on top of this and kill her or anything.
Worms perhaps? How would you tell?