Need help asap my chicks sick

Mandy0922

In the Brooder
Apr 16, 2018
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Cameron, North Carolina
Ok so about a week or 2 ago I got 10 chicks and I noticed 2 of them have a deformed beak to where the tops shorter than the bottom. They seem to have a harder time eating than the others and now the brown one is not doing good at all but I'm not sure if it's because she can't eat or if she's sick cause she's been sneezing a lot. For the past 2 days now she hasn't moved so I moved her to a separate box with a heat lamp but now she's got very loud, raspy, labored breathing and won't even hold her head up. Was I right to separate her from the others so they don't get sick too if that's what it is and is there anything I can do for her. Everyone keeps telling me to just kill her but I can't just kill her please help
 

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I’ve commented about your little one with the breathing issue on the thread before but if they are struggling to eat it might be worth trimming the beak back like Kat posted about?

Poor babies!
 
She didn't make it. I had her in a separate container so she wouldn't get the other chicks sick and I got up all night checking on her and the last time I did she'd gotten stuck in the water bowl so I dried her off and warmed her up but she started to seize. She calmed back down and I went back to bed only to find her now
 
Mandy, where did you get the chicks?
I would go ahead and start to work off the beak of the other chick. You can do just a little at a time so it is not so stressful. If a chick can't eat right it can't resist disease. But to have two with this defect seems to me like someone is selling unhealthy birds.
 

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