Alicethewhiterabbit
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- Feb 14, 2022
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Help and advice would be greatly appreciated. I have not run in to this before with chick chicks or guinea keets.
Guinea meet was 7 days old on September 30th but look like a day old chick (everyone else was normal size). I picked this out to give it a chance. Now this chick ate weird as it would try to eat from a beak vs out of the food dish. It took time but I got her to eat out of a dish. She will still look at other chicks mouths for food but eats well on her own now.
As chicks I have gotten from the store had coccidia or salmonella. So I always monitor poops.
Now December11 the keet is the size of a 3 week old. Very slow to grow. The other chicks are normal.
4 days ago(Sunday) the keet was having trouble standing and lethargic so I took her and I separated her . She was given her warmth and food (ate on her own) and did have diarrhea poops. I can’t remember if her crop had anything in it- I want to say it was empty ? But I do not know. After this I have been monitoring her. I put a supplemental heater with the rest of the 3 chicks (four including her) . I gave toltramax to everyone. (Day one)
Day two (Monday)I noticed her crop was balloon like but she was active and ate with everyone else. She seemed to be doing well with the heat source now.
Day 3 (Tuesday)I noticed her drinking a lot of water. Her crop was a water balloon. Everyone else’s was full too but you could feel their crop being full with food too. I took food and water way this night.
Day 4 (Wednesday) in the morning i checked and keet’s crop was still full of water and she did not run to the food. I took her out and kept her separate. Gave scrambled eggs but no water. She ate a little bit. This was all in the morning. Afternoon gave Bromaline to help clear potential clog. When you would lightly touch her crop it would come up.
6pm her crop was still full. Crop stayed full and did not go down. I massaged her crop. She had a plain urate poop. Gave more Bromaline. She Had small normal colored poop. So the Bromaline enzyme worked a little .
She then was pushing out the food stuck in her crop on her own( would shake her head flinging it everywhere. I emptied her crop gave digestive enzymes mixed with pumpkin. She had a poop with zero urate. Late in the night (12 am/1am ) I put her away with the rest of the chicks but took out all pine shavings. When I emptied her crop I did find pine shavings. She was very tired but could stand on her own. Crop was size of golf ball.
Next morning day 5 (Thursday). She is alert and feathers are not ruffled. Crop still the size of golf ball. I emoted her crop again and got anoth piece of pine shaving and mostly gritty pellets (dissolved pellets) . Still a bulge (felt like a warm water balloon) Gave pumpkin with digestive enzymes and a drop of apple vinegar (with mother) and some olive oil. She had a poop with no urates and it stunk but no diarrhea. No access to food or water. Today She does not want to be by herself and becomes stressed so I have one other chick with her. She is alert and strong (walking around ). Today is the first time I ever heard her make any noise (when I took the other chicks out and gave her own space). I have had guineas before and they were loud as chicks especially when they would call for each other. She just mad a very small noises.
I have had sick chicks before with slow moving crops and digestive enzymes normally does the trick. I’ve also never ever had chicks eat the pine shavings- at least to my knowledge. I am leaning to blockage which is why I was emptied her crop. When I emptied it this morning to the point nothing was coming out it still felt like a balloon but the size of half a ping pong ball.
I use the fine shaving pine and I found 5 pieces in her crop.
Guinea meet was 7 days old on September 30th but look like a day old chick (everyone else was normal size). I picked this out to give it a chance. Now this chick ate weird as it would try to eat from a beak vs out of the food dish. It took time but I got her to eat out of a dish. She will still look at other chicks mouths for food but eats well on her own now.
As chicks I have gotten from the store had coccidia or salmonella. So I always monitor poops.
Now December11 the keet is the size of a 3 week old. Very slow to grow. The other chicks are normal.
4 days ago(Sunday) the keet was having trouble standing and lethargic so I took her and I separated her . She was given her warmth and food (ate on her own) and did have diarrhea poops. I can’t remember if her crop had anything in it- I want to say it was empty ? But I do not know. After this I have been monitoring her. I put a supplemental heater with the rest of the 3 chicks (four including her) . I gave toltramax to everyone. (Day one)
Day two (Monday)I noticed her crop was balloon like but she was active and ate with everyone else. She seemed to be doing well with the heat source now.
Day 3 (Tuesday)I noticed her drinking a lot of water. Her crop was a water balloon. Everyone else’s was full too but you could feel their crop being full with food too. I took food and water way this night.
Day 4 (Wednesday) in the morning i checked and keet’s crop was still full of water and she did not run to the food. I took her out and kept her separate. Gave scrambled eggs but no water. She ate a little bit. This was all in the morning. Afternoon gave Bromaline to help clear potential clog. When you would lightly touch her crop it would come up.
6pm her crop was still full. Crop stayed full and did not go down. I massaged her crop. She had a plain urate poop. Gave more Bromaline. She Had small normal colored poop. So the Bromaline enzyme worked a little .
She then was pushing out the food stuck in her crop on her own( would shake her head flinging it everywhere. I emptied her crop gave digestive enzymes mixed with pumpkin. She had a poop with zero urate. Late in the night (12 am/1am ) I put her away with the rest of the chicks but took out all pine shavings. When I emptied her crop I did find pine shavings. She was very tired but could stand on her own. Crop was size of golf ball.
Next morning day 5 (Thursday). She is alert and feathers are not ruffled. Crop still the size of golf ball. I emoted her crop again and got anoth piece of pine shaving and mostly gritty pellets (dissolved pellets) . Still a bulge (felt like a warm water balloon) Gave pumpkin with digestive enzymes and a drop of apple vinegar (with mother) and some olive oil. She had a poop with no urates and it stunk but no diarrhea. No access to food or water. Today She does not want to be by herself and becomes stressed so I have one other chick with her. She is alert and strong (walking around ). Today is the first time I ever heard her make any noise (when I took the other chicks out and gave her own space). I have had guineas before and they were loud as chicks especially when they would call for each other. She just mad a very small noises.
I have had sick chicks before with slow moving crops and digestive enzymes normally does the trick. I’ve also never ever had chicks eat the pine shavings- at least to my knowledge. I am leaning to blockage which is why I was emptied her crop. When I emptied it this morning to the point nothing was coming out it still felt like a balloon but the size of half a ping pong ball.
I use the fine shaving pine and I found 5 pieces in her crop.
