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Help please: I have a beautiful SQ silkie that is 4 months old, and that I hatched and raised myself, and that seemed perfectly healthy yesterday. Today, its crop is empty, it is laying on its side, it isn't eating or drinking, and I'm very worried that I am going to lose it. I put some electrolytes in its water and dipped its beak. It is now standing up, but does not look good. What do I do? It does look like it may have had diarrhea, but no blood in stool. It seems very thin. The rest are all doing well.

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Thanks everyone. I do think it is too young to be egg bound. Definitely around 15 weeks old. But, thanks for the thought. I am currently just trying to get some water and electrolytes into it. It is still standing up, and some of the water drips out, but some is getting in. Before it was laying on its side, so that is a small improvement. My plan is to do that and see if I can perk it up a bit. Then, if I can get it back, I will treat for Cocci or worms, and I'm not sure which to go with. I probably can't treat for both at the same time, right? I do wonder if it is really either one of them, but need to try something. One thing I did notice, is that the top of its beak is a lot longer and curved over the bottom of its beak. I wonder if it is having trouble eating because of this. If I can get it to perk up, I may try to trim that back, to see if that helps. Everyone else seems very healthy. In the meantime, I am working on building their coop, to get them outside. They are in a kennel in my garage right now, and I move them outside on the grass everyday. It is a lot of work, but it is well worth it. I really don't want to lose this chick. I'm tempted to just try everything, but can't overwhelm it with help either. It is so hard to be patient. And, it is really scary trying to decide which strategy to go with. I like the idea of the poly vi sol and other goodies too. Which do I go with? worms, cocci (no blood in any of their poo at all), or vitamins and nutrients? Or do I do the beak trim? Can I treat for multiple things at once?

Quote: do you have probiotics you can give? I am so sorry, with my knowledge of young birds, I would automatically treat with corid or a sulfa med. and ad electrolytes and I have proprebiotics.

I dont tube feed chickens, but she may need fluids and tube feeding.... see Kathys signature for links on them
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[Sally Sunshine]

Morning Everyone. I am at work so just popping in. Strange happenings with the quail. The ones hatching that are not in the turner are splayed leg or worse. The ones from the turner are active and healthy.

what do you have them on in the brooder? papertowels I hope?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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That is interesting. Wouldn't egg size be easy to select for though? Maybe it's not as easy with such a small gene pool to begin with.

I think many things are easy to select for. However, when breeding to improve, you still don't want to go backwards. If you have multiple size eggs and you use small ones, that is going backwards.

As this person's fear was that even people breeding for hobby, have the effect of adversely affecting future generations of the breed as a whole.

Some things, like egg color are exceedingly difficult to resurrect once they're gone.

 

[kwhites634]

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lol I am not a fan of partying, I would sooner do something else I guess. I used to have tons of picnics and parties and dinners. Now I prefer a quiet meal or just doing something else with the kids where there are not many other people.
Yeah, I guess 109* heat index qualifies as extreme, alright

 

[Chaos18]

I think many things are easy to select for. However, when breeding to improve, you still don't want to go backwards. If you have multiple size eggs and you use small ones, that is going backwards.

As this person's fear was that even people breeding for hobby, have the effect of adversely affecting future generations of the breed as a whole.

Some things, like egg color are exceedingly difficult to resurrect once they're gone.

I would agree that if you have multiple egg sizes and you use the small ones that you are going backwards. I wonder though if you only have small ones to chose from how much that would affect future generations. Specifically if you only do it once and then after that select for egg size.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Hi Heather!

It rained most of the night last night, which is awesome! More rain today - forecast says it's only getting to 89F today.

(Of course, it'll be 100 again in a couple days, but I'll take it!!!!)

OK, gotta run. Have a great day, everyone!

- Ant Farm

Mornin Kristin, have good not really cool day

Quote: oh my goodness

 

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its getting hot, and kids grumpy begged to come inside, now they are so loud I need to find my shooting muffs.

 

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