chick stretching neck and crying

mandelot

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Feb 9, 2020
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Hello!

To provide a bit of context, I just barely recieved this baby yesterday - she was found dumped on the street. I've cared for baby chicks before and have their brooder set up with the hot spot of 95 deg fahrenheit. I gave her a bit of water with electrolytes/vitamins and she was acting fine yesterday and this morning/afternoon but when I went into the room to check on her, I heard her doing these loud peeps and extending her neck out. She was walking around and showed some interest in food in the morning but besides that I'm not sure what else could've happened since a few hours ago she was acting normal.

I don't see anything stuck in the back of her throat nor does she have any discharge and I'm stumped as to why she's doing this. Link to a video below. She has been doing it nonstop for the past 20 minutes and I don't know what to do, any help would be greatly appreciated!!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D6jxRSO97iNW86MKB6D7u1qB_WLwl_jf/view?usp=sharing

edit: it just died after doing this for an hour :(
if anyone could give any insight as to what it could have been itd be appreciated

edit 2: I think I know what they were, death throes. She had an infected bite wound on her chest that I had missed the day prior. :(
 
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If the chick was just a couple days old or less, it may have had genetic abnormalities. If the chick was around a week old or more, it may have been constipated and/or had an impacted crop due to eating undigestable foods without access to proper chick size grit.

I couldn't access the video. You can load a video to You Tube, copy the URL, then paste that here. Then the video will embed here and we can all watch.
 
If the chick was just a couple days old or less, it may have had genetic abnormalities. If the chick was around a week old or more, it may have been constipated and/or had an impacted crop due to eating undigestable foods without access to proper chick size grit.

I couldn't access the video. You can load a video to You Tube, copy the URL, then paste that here. Then the video will embed here and we can all watch.

I think I figured out what they were, it was probably death throes because turned out she had been bitten by a cat. I found the infected bite mark, that I had missed, on her chest shortly after she passed 😭
 

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