I wanted to share this because I had a sick chick last week and couldn’t find anything that could help me. The day before Easter (4/8) my chick started breathing more heavily and faster than the other chicks. No one else in my family noticed anything so I figured, being a nurse, I was just over analyzing the chick. On 4/9 she didn’t seem to be breathing worse but I def thought she was still breathing harder than the other chicks. She was still running around with them and eating and drinking. On 4/10 things got worse. She was now gaping with almost every breath (she was a week old at this point). I tried listening to her breathing and there was no sounds coming from her. She was still moving around with the other chicks, eating, and drinking, but def struggling to breath. I tried researching anything I could…I started thinking she had brooder pneumonia as non of the other chicks had any symptoms. I had tried separating her from the others, but she freaked out and started chirping so loudly I thought she’d have a heart attack, so I put her back with them. Anyways, the only thing I found online was from about 12 years ago where someone posted on this site that they crushed up garlic in the chick’s water and her chick got better! I figured I had nothing to lose so I tried that (plus giving electrolytes). I’m telling you that every day after that she got better and better. I started giving the garlic on 4/10 and by 4/12 she was no longer gaping and by 4/15 she wasn’t breathing hard anymore but just a little faster than the others. It’s now been 8 days since I started giving them garlic and she still just slightly breaths a little faster than the other chicks but is acting completely normal and not working hard to breath either. I don’t know is she actually had brooder pneumonia/aspergillus (I am not a vet), or if the garlic was what even worked but something did and she’s better! From everything I read she was going to die. We were going to only give her one more day to see if she got better before deciding if we needed to cull. So glad we waited. Well I’m still keeping an eye out on her, but so far she seems to be doing just fine. I just wanted to put this out there for someone else who finds themselves in a similar situation. Oh I crushed one garlic clove in one gallon of water, just fyi. I used chick electrolytes and a little nutridench in the water as well.