Help food sticking to roof of chicks mouth

[kbroom]

The photo shows accurately that the esophagus, where food and water go, is on the chicken's right side of their throat. See the hole in the center of the throat? That is the airway. If food and water get into that hole, the chicken can die.

When I syringe fluids into a small chick, I hold the chick in my left (weak) hand, I slip a fingernail into the beak to pry it open and hold it open with my left hand. Then I slip the syringe into the chick's right side of the beak, sliding the syringe right against the side of the mouth, and you will feel the syringe easily go into the esophagus. Then you can push the liquid out of the syringe and it goes right into the crop, which is attached to the esophagus.

I hope that is detailed enough.

I just wanted to say that THAT is amazing. I didn't know about the crop, airway and esophagus difference! When my little chick Coco was alive, I gave her some sugar water and it went down the crop, to the esophagus, instead of the airway, accidentally. It was my jealous dog that killed her, or I believe she would have lived!