Half week old chick closing eyes, not moving, emergency

[FolkSonginC]

I hatched out eight chicks on wednesday and they all seemed fine, most hatched on day 21 and two on day 22 so seemed like the perfect hatch. They were all eating and drinking fine, but for the last day or two I have noticed one sleeping more and not moving around as much. Now this morning it is barely opening its eyes and standing, mostly just sitting with its eyes closed. I have no idea what this could be, I've never had a seemingly healthy chick go downhill like this. I don't see how it could be coccidiosis because they are in a brooder that is still very clean as they have only been there for a few days. They have been eating hard boiled egg yolk, a little bit of flax seed, chick food, and grit. I've been checking for pasty butt and one of them had a stopped up vent, fixed it quickly before there were any symptoms and now that one's fine. None of the others have that. I was worried this one was somehow constipated and it had a little bit of stuff on its butt so I washed it off and it pooped while I was doing that. So not constipated. Maybe too hot? But all the other chicks seem completely fine, and I took it out of the heat and it's the same. I checked the naval to see if it looked infected but it doesn't, I put a little bit of iodine on it anyway. If I dip its beak in electrolyte water it drinks a little, so I have been doing that. Does anyone have any idea what this could be or what I can do? Should I worry about it spreading to the other chicks? Any help I can get as soon as possible would be great, I'm really hoping to save this chick.

 

[Eggcessive]

If you can get some Poultry NutriDrench right away, I would give a couple of drops daily for a few days, and make sure the chick is drinking water. Dip the beak in the water to get it drinking. What is the temperature under the heat source in the brooder? Pasty butt can occur for some time, so I would apply some vaseline to the vent with a QTip. I would back of on grit and flax seed. Egg yolk is okay when helping a very weak chick, but stick mostly with chick feed for the first couple of weeks. They only need grit later, when eating grass, bugs, or foods other than chick feed.

 

[FolkSonginC]

Thanks for the response. The temp under the brooder light is about 95 maybe a little higher, they run around all ends of the brooder as I only have it one end so that they can go to a cooler area if they are too hot. They go all over, sometimes right under it for a minute and then back to running around, eating, drinking, etc. so the temp seems to be fine. I will stop with the flax seed, grit, and egg yolk just to be safe. I would give some egg yolk to the sick chick but it's not eating. I have been able to get it to drink some electrolyte water, I don't have any poultry nutridrench though. Is that an electrolyte mix? I put the chick in a little quarantine area in the brooder (large plastic container with paper towel on bottom) and it was strong enough to jump out of that because I left the room for a minute and when I came back it was out, getting trampled. It has been opening its eyes a little bit, hopefully the electrolytes are working.

 

[FolkSonginC]

One other thing: the crop (I think the crop, the right side of the chest) seems bigger and mushy on the sick chick. I picked up a few others to compare and I can't really feel a bulge like on this one. Does anyone know what that means?

 

[FolkSonginC]

The chick is looking a little worse now, but still drinking a bit when I dip its beak in. Does anyone have any advice or know what might be going on? Should I be worried about the others? One other thing I noticed is that its beak looks a bit different from the others, the top part hangs over more. I don't know if that could indicate that there might be other things wrong, maybe some sort of deformity or genetic problem?