EMERGENCY HELP PLEASE!

[hailey113004]

we don’t have that either

 

[azygous]

Please don't panic. Do you have dark brown sugar? Not light brown. Dark.

 

[hailey113004]

Please don't panic. Do you have dark brown sugar? Not light brown. Dark.

We might let me go look

 

[hailey113004]

Please don't panic. Do you have dark brown sugar? Not light brown. Dark.

YES WE HAVE DARK BROWN SUGAR

 

[hailey113004]

WHAT DO I NEED TO DO

 

[azygous]

Do you have an eye dropper? Look in the medicine cabinet. Steal one off any bottle. If not, do you have a plastic straw? You will need to heat the end with a lighter to take the sharpness off the tip, but liquid still has to be able to get through.

Mix one teaspoon brown sugar into a quarter cup of warm water. Suck the brown sugar water up into the straw and when it's half full put your finger over the top of the straw to hold the liquid in.

You may need help to hold the chick while your pry the beak open. You will be slipping the blunted end of the straw into the right side of the chick's beak. (It's right side) Slide the straw about half an inch along the right side of the chick's throat into the esophagus. If it chokes, you don't have the straw along the right side of the throat. So pull it back out and try again until you get it in. Then let your finger off the top of the straw so the liquid drains out of the straw into the chick's crop. Can you do that? Here's a picture of where the straw should be going into a chick's throat.

 

[hailey113004]

We found a syringe and were using it but its bigger than in the picture. We tried and it spit a little up but it swallowed most of it. how much do we put in there? What is the goal of this? @azygous

 

[azygous]

Great! You want to get enough of the brown sugar water to fill the crop. Feel the crop as you are putting in the liquid. You don't want to over fill it.

The molasses, which is a result of refining sugar cane to get white sugar, dark brown sugar is sugar with a lot of the molasses left in, will act as a mild laxative to stimulate the gizzard to move its contents down and out of the chick's body. Our goal is to see a big poop.

 

[hailey113004]

We tried once, but it didn’t seem to make a difference. Should i notice a difference?

 

[hailey113004]

It did poop, but it was mostly liquid. What does this mean??