chick with breathing problems

[paoniapoultry]

i have a chick - 2 months old - who lives in a run outside with other chicks. i noticed today she is lethargic and something is wrong. i brought her in the house gave her food and water with vitamin/electrolyte mix and a little bit of tetracyclene. her breathing is labored and raspy. she cannot straighten her neck, it is in an s shape and when i try, gently, to straighten it out, she opens her beak really wide.

please help! thanks!

 

[leadwolf1]

Wish I could help...gonna give your post a 'bump' so someone with more experience can help. Good luck.

 

[bobzant]

im no expert but it seems like wry neck, i had a chicken acting similar to that and gave it vitamin e for about 2 weeks and shes all better now.

 

[paoniapoultry]

hmmm, vitamin e... how did you administer the vitamin e? did you keep her separate for that time?

thanks!

 

[WilsonAcres]

This is an extremely helpful link if you scroll down to the "wry neck" section it'll give you a few ways of administering meds including the vitamin e

keep us updated hopefully your chic will be fine

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=517234

 

[paoniapoultry]

thank you, that is helpful. how is the vit E administered? with a dropper? mixed with the water? seems like dropper would be best so she gets it all, but how much in the dropper? thanks!

 

[bobzant]

I bought poly-vi-sol its an iron free baby vitamin in liquid form. On my full grown bantam I gave her 3 drops on the edge of her beak a day.

 

[paoniapoultry]

thank you! did you isolate her or keep her with her friends? i never know what to do in these situations... i often think if the bird is isolated it will not get better because it is lonely, but if it is with other chicks it will get beat up/trampled/not enough food, etc.