Chick will not shut up!!!

[Akane]

I found it's easier to get them to eat and drink if you put the food/water in a syringe and just push some to the end. Then touch the end of their beak coming up from the bottom with the syringe to the drop on the end. They'll open their mouth and some will fall in so they swallow. You have to make the food very runny to make it work. I don't dip beaks now. I just use the syringe while holding them upright. It was way too hard trying to hold tiny bantams and quail chicks face down over a water dish without dropping the bird in it.

 

[stormylady]

These may be repeat answers if so Im sorry.
I keep trying to think of all the stuff Ive read on here, and Electriclytes in the water, or grogel something along those lines might help if you haven't yet. Also someone said that plain yogurt will help them, get their systems started with good bacteria and all? Here praying that your chick gets better. Sandy

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Oh my!

I can just see me doing that! I'll try the syringe. The pecking thing was the only way I knew how to get them to eat.

Debi214~~ The toe on the other foot is not curled, it just has a 'kink' in it. I don't think booting it would help. This is a very tiny silkie mix chick, and it's hard enough getting the boot on the whole foot to try and keep those toes from curling.

 

[shelleyd2008]

I have heard about the electrolytes, and I have some, but it is in powder form. I can't figure out the proper dosage, and I'm afraid to overdose them on it. I keep forgetting to get poly-vi-sol drops, maybe tomorrow I'll remember that.

Gotta go look for a syringe.

I 'think' I have one somewhere!

 

[Debi214]

Shelley you try everything on here that we have told you to try and keep us posted!!! Best of luck to you and that little silkie!

 

[birdlover]

I'd like to ditto a couple of suggestions here:

Take 2 of the mille fleurs and put in with the lone chick. They are small and should do okay. I say two because they have probably all bonded and one will probably freak out if there's no others he knows and then you'll have TWO constantly peeping chicks!

Hard boil an egg and crush up the yolk. See if he'll eat that. If you have the other two chicks in there with him, they will probably eat the yolk, too, and the lone chick may copy them.

 

[stormylady]

I don't know the correct dosage either, and I might have done the wrong thing but I have 19 chicks and the package of grogel was for like 100 chicks and I just mixed it up and gave it to them and they ate it all, and they are all doing fine. Sandy Im not sure you can overdose on electrilytes maybe some one else knows?

 

[shelleyd2008]

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This is the vitamin/electrolyte water soluble (sp?) powder, I got it at the feed store. I can't figure out the dosage on it.

I'm gonna get a different brooder going and try moving some of the bigger chicks. Plus get an egg on to boil.

 

[kitchwitch]

if you give them a LOT of electrolytes, yes, they can OD. Most of what electrolytes are is all water soluble, so it should run through the body fairly quickly. However in babies you have to watch in case there's a problem with kidney function, than all that stuff could be retained and hurt the chick.

 

[shelleyd2008]

The package says to mix 1/2 package for 55 gallons of water? So that's why I don't use it!! I have no idea how to mix it in a pint!

It's the durvet brand vit. and elect.

One more ? Do I hard-boil the egg, or does it matter?