Emergency - very sickly chick

[FreeChicken!]

The scab is off and out, and I can find no traces of the plug, but she still can't poo.

 

[Nicole95]

Try having a buddy hold her and going after the plug with dull tip tweezers. And feed her drops of mineral oil with a dropper. If she still can't poo than regardless of what's being seen on the outside, there's still an inerlaying problem.

 

[casportpony]

The scab is off and out, and I can find no traces of the plug, but she still can't poo.

Does fluid still come out?

 

[FreeChicken!]

Does fluid still come out?

I'm not sure. It may have been water dripping from her feathers, though she wasn't very wet, so maybe not. But either way I didn't see much fluid.

 

[Sparrow]

Two things to try here, and it might sound weird but it can really work in her favor:

1. Feed her vegetable/olive/canola/whatever cooking oil like the others recommend.

2. Hold her with her butt up towards you. Use a rounded item to gently hold her vent open just a little bit, and put a few drops of the same oil inside it. Basically, a chicken enema. It sounds really bizarre, but the exact same treatment saved the life of a songbird I rehabilitated who was so terribly impacted that he would've not lasted the rest of the day and was in severe pain. I had to repeat the oiling in his behind several times, but he ended up being able to poop just fine after a while.

 

[casportpony]

Force feeding oil of any type can cause lipoid pneumonia if it's aspirated, which will more than likely cause death.

When I give oil, I give mineral oil via a 1ml syringe that I insert down the esophagus, it's much safer, IMNSHO.

 

[casportpony]

Can you get a finger into her vent? If not a finger, how about the tip of an oral thermometer?

 

[FreeChicken!]

I mixed canola oil with her water earlier today, which she drank of her own free will.

I have q-tips, which I used to try cleaning up her vent. Didn't work so well though... but it's all I've got.

 

[casportpony]

Go to the pharmacy and get a 1ml syringe.

 

[Sparrow]

I suppose i just assume that people might possess the common sense not to flood the bird with oil and cause aspiration pneumonia. :/ Little drips, one by one, slowly placed in the side of the beak is what I am talking about.