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It's a two person job. One to firmly hold the chick and the other to look into, swab the throat with a Q tip - sometimes shining a light into the throat will help to observe them.
You can take a fresh fecal sample to any vet and have them look under a microscope for worm eggs, shouldnt cost much.
However, now that you mentioned that your chick is eating and drinking, birds dont eat and drink if they have gapeworms. She wouldve been dead by now if it were gapeworms.
Did you look inside her mouth for any lesions?
Personnally I suspect it's mucus in her trachea resulting from some type of respiratory disease.