Hello Chicken friends!
I recently incubated some shipped eggs that took 15 days to get here due to mail losing it. Out of the 15 eggs, I had 5 survivors. And this little guy is one of them.
It’s a little over a week now and I noticed after it was a couple days old that it was breathing rapidly and going under the heater plate a lot. It would come out to eat and drink but wasn’t playing with the others anymore. This one also had poopy but from day one that we constantly cleaned with a dampened paper towel, which now it no longer has poopy butt since 2 or 3 days ago.
I started orally giving bc it nutri drench to see if I’d see any changes. After one of the doses it started constantly twitching its head and chirping which makes me wonder if it was my fault due to me accidentally squeezing too much out and maybe I caused it to aspirate and lead to pneumonia? This has been going on maybe for 3 days now with the added twitching.
I isolated it 3 days ago, just incase.
I’m thrown off bc other than it breathing fast and the twitch/chirp, it’s eating and drinking and looks normal. It also doesn’t twitch/chirp when it’s sleeping.
Today, I noticed it’s now scratching at its face. (I did just recently give it more nutri drench tho so maybe that’s why?)
I also started it on Tiaguard 12.5% yesterday. 2ml in 1 liter water with a few tbsp sugar. And I dosed with some more nutri drench today at side of beak.
So my question is, am I on the right path? Is something else going on? I just don’t know what else to do.
Also it was in with all the other chicks for a few days even when breathing rapidly, and they are all fine and normal.
I had planned to include a video but it won’t let me.
Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated! Thank y’all in advance!
I recently incubated some shipped eggs that took 15 days to get here due to mail losing it. Out of the 15 eggs, I had 5 survivors. And this little guy is one of them.
It’s a little over a week now and I noticed after it was a couple days old that it was breathing rapidly and going under the heater plate a lot. It would come out to eat and drink but wasn’t playing with the others anymore. This one also had poopy but from day one that we constantly cleaned with a dampened paper towel, which now it no longer has poopy butt since 2 or 3 days ago.
I started orally giving bc it nutri drench to see if I’d see any changes. After one of the doses it started constantly twitching its head and chirping which makes me wonder if it was my fault due to me accidentally squeezing too much out and maybe I caused it to aspirate and lead to pneumonia? This has been going on maybe for 3 days now with the added twitching.
I isolated it 3 days ago, just incase.
I’m thrown off bc other than it breathing fast and the twitch/chirp, it’s eating and drinking and looks normal. It also doesn’t twitch/chirp when it’s sleeping.
Today, I noticed it’s now scratching at its face. (I did just recently give it more nutri drench tho so maybe that’s why?)
I also started it on Tiaguard 12.5% yesterday. 2ml in 1 liter water with a few tbsp sugar. And I dosed with some more nutri drench today at side of beak.
So my question is, am I on the right path? Is something else going on? I just don’t know what else to do.
Also it was in with all the other chicks for a few days even when breathing rapidly, and they are all fine and normal.
I had planned to include a video but it won’t let me.
Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated! Thank y’all in advance!
