Help! Accidentally gave baby chicks Arizona Green Tea!!!

[Chicklove88]

Hey guys i am new to this website and am fairly new to chick owning. I accidentally gave my 2 week old baby chicks Arizona tea with green tea in ginsing, vitamin c, sugar. Is it TOXIC???They only had access to it for about 10min before i realized what i did, so i dont think theu got much but i definitely saw them drink it! I know it sounds stupid and how could i be such a terrible negligent owner, please help! It been about 20 min. They are acting fine. Shoud i worry or do anything? I immediately rinsed out the waterer gave them their normal water with probiotics and electrolytes and diluted it again with 50% normal tap water.

I had used an old Arizona tea jug to mix their water and labeled it and put it in the fridge. Well there was another exact same jug in the fridge that had real tea and i gave it to them. I put the jug back in fridge and saw their labeled jug already in the fridge!!! It looked just like theirs!!! Idk why i didnt notice i gave them the jug labeled for them!!
I feel horrible!

 

[BirdGirl2004]

First and foremost...
! I hope that you enjoy this site as much as the rest of us do! I have learned SOOO much from this site, and I hope that you do too!

Secondly...
Your chicks will be just fine. It's just a sippa tea! I've sone similar things in the past. New chicken owners mess up ALL the time (I know it from experience) Don't feel bad! The worst thing that could happen is they get a little diarrhea or they might be a little energetic lol! But... they WILL be fine!
Good luck!

 

[Chicklove88]

First and foremost...
! I hope that you enjoy this site as much as the rest of us do! I have learned SOOO much from this site, and I hope that you do too!

Secondly...
Your chicks will be just fine. It's just a sippa tea! I've sone similar things in the past. New chicken owners mess up ALL the time (I know it from experience) Don't feel bad! The worst thing that could happen is they get a little diarrhea or they might be a little energetic lol! But... they WILL be fine!
Good luck!

 

[sylviethecochin]

x2 {EDT: Didn't see above post. To specify, x2, Birdgirl. And welcome to BYC.]

Tea's basically weeds in water. My chicks are out free-ranging with their mothers, and they eat weeds, dirt, bugs, tiny bits of gravel, vegetables they steal out of the garden, and sometimes even chick feed. Neither ginseng nor tea leaves are poisonous to chickens; they're fine.

 

[Chicklove88]

Thank you. I have used this website a million times in the past when i had a single chick with splayed legs. They arent running around like crazy like a caffeinated kid so i guess thats good. Also i noticed it said hatchling under my username so i thought i posted in the wrong thread for hatching eggs! So i reposted the thread. Yours says "songster" what does that mean?

 

[tjo804]

I am sure also that they will be just fine
You on the other hand,

I do not believe You have not been neglectful .
As a matter of fact it sounds like you are doing a great job! Give yourself a break

 

[Pugsabi]

Thank you. I have used this website a million times in the past when i had a single chick with splayed legs. They arent running around like crazy like a caffeinated kid so i guess thats good. Also i noticed it said hatchling under my username so i thought i posted in the wrong thread for hatching eggs! So i reposted the thread. Yours says "songster" what does that mean?

Welcome to BYC! The more you participate on this site, the more you get "points" and trophies and it will change too. We all start out as hatching!

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

It should be fine! welcome to byc! don't feel bad! I love my chickens to bits (literately in this story) I had just let my chicks in a (covered) pen outside and was fixing the fence I created them and they are very freindly and were right beside me when I cut the HUGE roll of chicken wire from my T post to make the pen larger and I dropped it on my 2 sweetest barred rock chicks. I started bawling immediately and lifted the wire off (thinking I am going to see 2 dead chicks) and they were both alive!! I gave them some Nutri drench, separated, and checked for broken bones... None! they both hurt a leg, but were back to normal overnight for one (less severely crushed) and 1 week for the other! I love them too this day!

 

[azygous]

Green tea is very high in tannins, even more than black tea, and tannin is toxic to chickens. I doubt your chicks got enough to cause any trouble, but if you are concerned, give them some gelatin. That will bind to the tannin and neutralize it.

 

[sylviethecochin]

Green tea is very high in tannins, even more than black tea, and tannin is toxic to chickens. I doubt your chicks got enough to cause any trouble, but if you are concerned, give them some gelatin. That will bind to the tannin and neutralize it.

I understand that tannins are mildly toxic, but I have hens that swallow red acorns whole when I pop them out of the shells for them--and bash them apart for their peeps. Surely there's not enough in green tea to hurt anything.