My chick is choking. What to do?

[TropicalChickies]

Could it be gapeworm?

Most likely not. Gapeworm is pretty rare in chickens. Although if you look on the internet, it looks like it's a major cause of chickens choking, but it's really not

 

[Kiki]

Ahhh... I'm not sure how to treat such a young chick but there's a few main possibilities here:

1. Impacted crop and the chick is trying to clear it. If you don't feel anything hard and big in the crop, it's probably not that.

But if you have some sort of solid chilled oil (like coconut oil) give the chick a tiny bit. Like a quarter teaspoon to help move anything that could be stuck.

2. Thiamine or selenium or Vitamin E deficiency. Deficiency of any of these vitamins or minerals can cause weird head movements called wry neck.

3. Injury

Did you watch the video yet?

 

[TropicalChickies]

Did you watch the video yet?

Oh I didn't know there was a video! Let me go look at it, sorry.

 

[CCsGarden]

She has a cycle of sleeping, waking up, then it poops and vomits immediately after pooping. Then she thrashes with her mouth open and thrashes onto floor. She falls asleep again. It has gone through the cycle 7 times, but we were able to stop it from falling on the floor 5 times. My mom thinks it is having seizures. Earlier we gave it water, then homemade elctrolyte but stopped when it began to vomit.

 

[CCsGarden]

We are giving it air via CPAP when its mouth is open, thrashing, vomiting, or struggling for breath.

 

[SourRoses]

I'm not an expert at all but I think your efforts with the cpap and water are causing more harm than good. She's trying to move away from the air pressure and the person in the video is squeezing her awfully tight to force it. Remember they are very small compared to us. She seems so desperate for air that she may have fluid in the lungs, possibly from the human intervention.

 

[TropicalChickies]

Oh I didn't know there was a video! Let me go look at it, sorry.

Oh my goodness, the poor bird. I didn't realize I picked up this thread on page two. Apologies. I've seen and treated wry neck in a chick and this doesn't look like it. And I've treated impaction in a young cockerel about this age, but this could be something else.

 

[notabitail]

No. Do you happen to play with her often or pick her up a lot?

The motion that she's making in the video is that she's struggling to breathe, probably because she has fluid in her lungs.

She does get picked up by my siblings a bit. When taken outside to the run they put them in a box and carry them out. Maybe she got squished in the process or something.
As of right now I am going to try to put an end to the handling of them and the box.

 

[notabitail]

I'm not an expert at all but I think your efforts with the cpap and water are causing more harm than good. She's trying to move away from the air pressure and the person in the video is squeezing her awfully tight to force it. Remember they are very small compared to us. She seems so desperate for air that she may have fluid in the lungs, possibly from the human intervention.

I'll let my siblings know. I did tell them off already, so I don't think they will force it anymore.
What should we do if she has fluid in the lungs?

 

[CCsGarden]

Oh my goodness, the poor bird. I didn't realize I picked up this thread on page two. Apologies. I've seen and treated wry neck in a chick and this doesn't look like it. And I've treated impaction in a young cockerel about this age, but this could be something else.

When we found her she had a string/hair with dirt on it and dirt in her mouth, laying still and struggling for breath. Another chick was trying to pull the hair and peck the dirt out, and stepped on her back a few times.

In the video, my hand got under her feathers, but I'm not squeezing her. Sorry for not clarifying that!