My Chick is Bloated and Dehydrated! Help!

[ChickenLover6684]

Hello, so my baby chicken is sick and is super bloated feeling. He has a wide stance and seems kind of lethargic. He is only a few days old. I think he might have mushy chick. He is super dehydrated and won’t eat or drink. He won’t stay quiet unless he is under heat of some sort. How can I help him?!

 

[ChickenLover6684]

 

[Kk Augy]

Might be anomia...not Shure...:Still not a vet ..but training to be one !did you try to feed it with a tube?

 

[RosemaryDuck]

I'm sorry no one has answered you yet!

I don't have that much experience with Mushy chick, so I'll tag some others here. In the mean time, you can try giving some nutri drench, chick electrolytes or hydro hen.

@Eggcessive
@sourland
@azygous

 

[azygous]

Have you tried syringing warm sugar water? It would be more apt to drink sweetened water and the glucose can help boost its energy levels.

 

[ChickenLover6684]

Thank you so much for your replies! I will try some of these ideas! I hope they work! Thanks!

 

[ChickenLover6684]

Hello, so I have an update on the chick. He is not looking good. I went outside to feed my other chickens and he was half dead. He has blood in and on his eyelids. One thing that I forgot to mention was that he was helped out of the egg. One of the other chicks that we hatched with him died today. We helped it out of the shell as well. Super sad that it died. I don’t really think that the other one will survive.