Gasping peachick (2 weeks old)

[Chicken Keith]

You can give it orally and the dose is ~0.016 ml per 100 grams three times a day.

Ok, 3 times per day, gotcha. And 100 grams is the weight of the bird right? Sorry to be dense, just want to confirm.

 

[casportpony]

Ok, 3 times per day, gotcha. And 100 grams is the weight of the bird right? Sorry to be dense, just want to confirm.

How much does your chick weigh?

 

[Chicken Keith]

I need to find out. But 0.016ml is tiny...like a droplet. Is that what you meant?

If so this Tylan is powerful stuff. It is used against American Foul Brood in beehives, I know.

 

[casportpony]

I need to find out. But 0.016ml is tiny...like a droplet. Is that what you meant?

If so this Tylan is powerful stuff. It is used against American Foul Brood in beehives, I know.

Yeah, 0.016 ml is about a drop. At two weeks of age mine weigh about 100 grams, though some of the bigger ones might be closer to 150 grams.

 

[Chicken Keith]

Gasping still continues. No tangible changes. I'm really unable to give Tylan more than once a day. Trying to catch a baby peacock raised by a chicken hen in daylight hours (morning and afternoon) is akin to catching a greased piglet in the barn. The other sibling peachicks panic and all hell breaks lose, fly around even squeezing their bodies thru the chain link fence they're in, so it's not worth it to me, to squeeze in two more daily doses. I do well to give a dose once a day (at night) when everybody's bedded down.

That said, I feel hopeless and I wonder now if some foreign item is stuck in the chick's windpipe and blocking the air passage?? I would think that the body will reject a foreign article eventually, but could cause an infection in the process. Again, the chick is lively enough and here we are in day 6 of noticing this and no symptom of cocci has appeared, no lethargy, no ruffled feathers, nothing. When my 8 week old chicks last year caught cocci, they were dead in 4 days.

I'm at wits end and feel very incompetent right now. Have any of you ever failed at figuring out an ailment? I just feel like I should know more than I do. But I don't.

 

[KsKingBee]

I have had birds that are raspy and wheeze before, I never was able to get one or two over it. We decided it was a birth defect as it was healthy otherwise.

 

[casportpony]

If you can't give TYlan more than one a day then I wouldn't bother. Maybe you could try some Baytril instead?

 

[casportpony]

I'm at wits end and feel very incompetent right now. Have any of you ever failed at figuring out an ailment? I just feel like I should know more than I do. But I don't.

A couple of times I have failed.

 

[Chicken Keith]

I have had birds that are raspy and wheeze before, I never was able to get one or two over it. We decided it was a birth defect as it was healthy otherwise.

What happened to them, did they live to adulthood and function?

 

[KsKingBee]

What happened to them, did they live to adulthood and function?

I gave it away and lost track of who has the hen. The cock broke his neck when he got spooked.