HELP - 3 Day Old Chick In Trouble... PICS ADDED

[Buugette]

1) What type of bird , age and weight. Blue Silkie... tiny
2) What is the behavior, exactly. Very weak
3) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma. No
4) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
5) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all. Medicated chick food, water, Poly Vi Sol vitamins, boiled egg yolk.
6) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc. not sure
7) What has been the treatment you have administered so far? Butt cleaned, a little messy, sugar water, watered down yogurt
8 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet? She's just a baby... I don't know if a vet could help
9) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
10) Describe the housing/bedding in use tiny pine bedding...

Her crop seems full... she was laying in the bottom of the bin not moving. Couldn't hold herself up. Hubby found her and started with some sugar water and cleaning her butt... got her too wet, now near diffuser blowdryer to keep warm and start to dry. She will hold herself a little now... very seems so weak. She was fine this morning and eating her chick starter and egg. She is peeping from time to time. She was much smaller than the others we received.

What else can I do? I'm happy to give a phone number if some wants to talk to me. Yes, I'm panicked.

Diana

 

[horsejody]

At this point, I think all you can do is keep her warm (95 degrees in the brooder), keep her separate, dribble polyvisol on her beak twice a day, keep the butt clean, keep offering her the food (especially the egg yolk) and pray. Sometimes there are problems that are unsurmountable. Prayers said for you baby.

 

[fiberart57]

Does her crop feel like popcorn? If so, it's possible that she ate some of her bedding; chicks don't know the really fine shavings aren't food. My EE did this when he was about three weeks old, fortunately it passed through his system.

frizzlebird7 has a system of cleaning crops but I don't know if it's recommended for tiny chicks but I have it on file. Let me look it up.

Mary

OK, here it is. I reiterate: I'm not sure of its use for babies but it seems as though it might work.

Crop Flush for chickens
very simple
mix the 1 pt of warm water
1/2 cup of baking soda
mix good and fill a child'sd ear syringe with the baking soda water

put the chicken on the table in front of you
if there is some one to hold the chicken it is easier to do

now take the filled syringe and put it in the back of the throat of the chicken
ex[ell all the water
now lay the syringe down
take your hand and bring it up tightly against the crop of the chicken
all he while pushing on the hand to breing up the spoiled feed etc out of the crop
the chicken will not hold it back but as chickens do not vomit you are the one bringing the spoiled feed out the beak

do not turn the chicken upside down

do the flushing at least three times and let the bird rest
DO NOT FEED IT FOR 24 HRS
let it rest and then only feed it
one sliced of bread soaked in milk
into the milk cut a 1000 mg capsule of Vitamin E and crush 1 tablet of selinium and mix with the soaked bread
feed this twice a day for a week

also have 1 tbsp of apple cider vinegar in qt of water

by now she is getting better

then you can see if she does alright on the crumble chicken feed

DO NOT FEED HER ANY WHOLE OR CRACKED GRAINS ALL THIS TIME

any questions eamil me
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Glenda L Heywood Brookings SD
[email protected]

I got this from a file I'm creating of all the great advice here. Good luck and prayers.

 

[Buugette]

okay, here's an update.

We mixed egg yolk with gatorade, mixed it in medicine squisher... with a pedastool and pounder... got a nice loose paste. She has been eating drops of yogurt mixed with water. She is holding her head up, fights if turned on back, eyes are mostly open, and is now dry, except for the food mixes my hubby slops.

She is standing on her feet, crop is rounded, but soft. doesn't want her beak wiped off...

Maybe we caught her in time...

she is all fluffy again, laying down, but head is up... no poo yet to see. Doesn't want her butt touched....

These are all good signs right... she fighting to live... we have a chance?

D

Oh, she's walking a little... shaking her head.... looking around, picking at the towel...

 

[Buugette]

and her poo

Just a couple pics... she looks better... but we are gonna have to not take our eyes off her.

Thanks for everyone's input... happy for any more advise or ideas...

sorry for the bad pics... cell phone.

Diana

 

[Buugette]

I have now put her in a smaller bin, with bedding, food and water. Her heat lamp, but how will I know the lamp isn't too much. It is about 85 where we live... and we don't have the air on. windows open.

I'm afraid to cook her. I don't have her directly under the light, kinda off to the side, but I can feel the heat.

Thoughts?

 

[fiberart57]

Good work getting her to eat and drink what you've done.

Get a thermometer and put it in there with her to make sure she's not too hot. She shouldn't be above 95 degrees.

Mary

 

[Buugette]

She's drinking some gatorade now out of a dropper...

I so have to thank my husband... he has been babying her since he got home. He has her eating and drinking... I'm just a nervous wreck.

 

[dlhunicorn]

Do NOT use the above suggestion for the flush (with the epsom salt) ...
Are you using medicated starter? if not I suggest you you do so.
Yogurt is great... I too have a little chickie at the moment that strangely enough I am constantly having to remind to drink yet it will go to the yogurt or eat moistened crumbles

Just keep babying it along and hopefully it will catch up with the others soon.

 

[TXmom]

Sounds like you're doing all you can...I hope she makes it