Head twitching and chirping same time constantly except when sleeping

[Jbird2026]

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!

 

[azygous]

Chirping continually can indicate constipation, pretty common following pasty butt. Give tiny bits of chilled coconut oil directly into its beak. Give up to one teaspoon oil in this way.

To give a chick liquids, don't put the syringe inside the mouth. Drip fluids on the outside of the right side of the beak. The chick will suck in the fluids. Best to dip the beak and encourage it to drink on its own.

 

[Jbird2026]

Chirping continually can indicate constipation, pretty common following pasty butt. Give tiny bits of chilled coconut oil directly into its beak. Give up to one teaspoon oil in this way.

To give a chick liquids, don't put the syringe inside the mouth. Drip fluids on the outside of the right side of the beak. The chick will suck in the fluids. Best to dip the beak and encourage it to drink on its own.

It seems to pooping fine now.
It’s “twitch twitch chirp” and it’s only constant when it’s moving around. The twitch I’m referring too is like a head shake not a body twitch.
And at first I was doing it from tip of beak but not prying it open but then I learned it suctions in from the side but once it came out more than I wanted too fast, which is when this started with the head twitch and chirp.
It’s drinking and eating and pooping.
I guess I just gotta wait it out and see? It hasn’t been a full 24 hrs since I started the antibiotic.

 

[Debbie292d]

I think it'll be fine but needs a day or two to work that out or absorb it in the lungs. I doubt it has pneumonia, but since you started it on antibiotics, I'd finish the 3-5 days so it doesn't develop a resistance to it in case some day you'd have to administer that again. Once done, I'd follow up with probiotics in their water every other day for a couple of weeks to get its flora back.

If you want to post a video, just post it in Youtube or our gallery (tab above) first, then paste the link back.

I'm sure it'll be okay though.

 

[Jbird2026]

I think it'll be fine but needs a day or two to work that out or absorb it in the lungs. I doubt it has pneumonia, but since you started it on antibiotics, I'd finish the 3-5 days so it doesn't develop a resistance to it in case some day you'd have to administer that again. Once done, I'd follow up with probiotics in their water every other day for a couple of weeks to get its flora back.

If you want to post a video, just post it in Youtube or our gallery (tab above) first, then paste the link back.

I'm sure it'll be okay though.

Okay thank you! That makes me feel better!
And I’m not sure how to go about anything with YouTube haha. And the gallery tab only lets here only lets me do photos, not videos. Unless I’m missing something?

 

[FunClucks]

Okay thank you! That makes me feel better!
And I’m not sure how to go about anything with YouTube haha. And the gallery tab only lets here only lets me do photos, not videos. Unless I’m missing something?

Post the video to youtube. Then copy the youtube link and post that here on your thread. There's not a good way for us to view videos otherwise. [ETA: I stand corrected - see Debbie292d post below.]

Good luck with your bird.

 

[Debbie292d]

Okay thank you! That makes me feel better!
And I’m not sure how to go about anything with YouTube haha. And the gallery tab only lets here only lets me do photos, not videos. Unless I’m missing something?

Here's how to upload videos to the Gallery

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/how-to-upload-videos-to-the-gallery.1631126/