Cross beaked chick with poor respitory health

[jbake]

Looks to be an EE pullet with a severe cross beak. Is the mush you make more soupy than oatmeal consistency? I'm thinking it's getting liquid going down the wrong pipe as it eats. Just guessing here ... Those tagged will be able to help you better.

I was thinking it might be that but its more like clumpy than soupy. Once in a while its soupy.

 

[jbake]

I gave him a syringe and a half of vitamins, electrolytes, and oregano oil. I hope he pulls through I never noticed how bad it got because he's constantly moving and peeping but its when he's not and i lay down with him I hear him wheezing and the chest rattling.

 

[ChickNanny13]

I'm concerned about the wheezing & rattling in it's chest, maybe liquid going down the trachea instead of the esophagaus ...
Tagging help @Wyorp Rock @Eggcessive @WVduckchick @casportpony @azygous Thank you in advance

 

[jbake]

Aww...poor sweet little thing
He does have quite a severe cross beak.

In the photo, does he get food stuck in the corner?
He may be aspirating food/water when eating. Do you notice if he fills his crop and then that is empty in the morning before he eat/drinks?

He may have a respiratory illness, but I think it may be more related to his beak being the way it is. Sometimes birds that have this deformity also have other genetic or developmental deformities and they eventually fail to thrive.



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I notice he mostly gets it stuck on the top part then takes his toes and scratches it out. He's constantly hungry and eats alot for a baby I would think. But yes if I feed him a full crop at night in the morning he wakes up crying because he's hungry. Yeah I thought about him aspirating his food because he eats so fast and ravenous like its the first meal he's had in weeks.