My chick is doing this weird gaping thing after it eats/drinks. Is this normal?
Gaping chick - is this normal?
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Every now and then it has bubbles come up from it's throat.
floppysquirrel04
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Is he pooping normally? Does he ever run out of water? Does he have heating? Feel his crop and see if it feels impacted. Try soaking his food slightly with a spray bottle to see if it helps
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A little back story;
This chick is an only hatchling, it hatched Sunday. I have 3 guinea eggs due between today and Friday for company. I have more chicks due Sunday.
The poor thing only wants to eat and drink if I'm right near it. I had it outside in a brooder with a heater plate Monday afternoon until Tuesday afternoon when I brought it back inside because it sounded distressed and the temp was going down around freezing. I put it back in the incubator with the guinea eggs because I don't have a brooder set up in the house. I put food and drink in the incubator, but it wasn't eating. Thus the little desk brooder you see in the vid. It didn't have hardly anything it its crop until about 2-3 hours ago when I put it in that tub to eat and drink while I was nearby. I've taken it out to do that twice. I really think the poor little one will do better when it has buddies, but that seems to be 12 hrs - a couple days off.
This chick is an only hatchling, it hatched Sunday. I have 3 guinea eggs due between today and Friday for company. I have more chicks due Sunday.
The poor thing only wants to eat and drink if I'm right near it. I had it outside in a brooder with a heater plate Monday afternoon until Tuesday afternoon when I brought it back inside because it sounded distressed and the temp was going down around freezing. I put it back in the incubator with the guinea eggs because I don't have a brooder set up in the house. I put food and drink in the incubator, but it wasn't eating. Thus the little desk brooder you see in the vid. It didn't have hardly anything it its crop until about 2-3 hours ago when I put it in that tub to eat and drink while I was nearby. I've taken it out to do that twice. I really think the poor little one will do better when it has buddies, but that seems to be 12 hrs - a couple days off.
I would try and look down its throat and see if something is stuck. Make sure it's drinking plenty of water to get food down.
Sooooo....
Not eating unless you are close by....
Did it maybe eat a ton and didn't drink enough would be my first guess after checking for an obstruction.
Maybe take food away for an hour or 2 to make sure that big crop goes down.
Leave water in with it though.
Not eating unless you are close by....
Did it maybe eat a ton and didn't drink enough would be my first guess after checking for an obstruction.
Maybe take food away for an hour or 2 to make sure that big crop goes down.
Leave water in with it though.
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It ate and drank a bunch right away. I just put water in the incubator and it started drinking greedily. It is doing a little bit of gaping but not as much as before. It's been an hour since the last feeding and the crop has reduced a good bit.
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Oh and pooping well.
I never saw one do that before. Pretty young to have gapeworm.
I finally got the Mille Fleur D'uccles into their playhouse coop! 
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