need help chick looks like it's gasping for air

[e'sbackyardchickens]

Hi I posted yesterday about our new bantam that were dying off. We bought 2 on Thursday, one died by Friday morning. Thinking it was a freak thing or maybe a bigger chicken stepped on it we bought another Friday. By Friday afternoon the chick from Thursday died. Yesterday, we gave our survivor some probiotics and acv. She seemed okay this morning except her peep seemed a little off like she had a sore throat. Her poop was sticking to her bottom so we cleaned her up. We have been watching her closely all day. All of a sudden she has started gasping for air with her wings down. I put a little Vet RX on a cotton ball near her and she is sitting with her head down on a heating pad. It almost looks to me like she has pneumonia and looks like she is dying. Any thoughts on what this might be? And is there any hope for her?

My daughter is devastated and I'm wracking my brain on what else to do.
Thanks

Kristin

 

[rides2far]

So sorry

. Sometimes they just pass away, no matter what you do. They might have been stressed before you even bought them.

 

[e'sbackyardchickens]

I did some reading and I am guessing this little girl had pneumonia

It an effort to exhaust all possibilities, I crushed a clove of garlic and mixed it with some colloidal silver and dipped her beak in this solution and she swallowed a tiny bit.

About an hour ago I warmed some of the VetRX and put some on her beak, head, under her wings, and on her throat. I soaked a tiny piece of cotton in some diluted VetRX and touched it to her tongue several times so that she would swallow little half drops of it. I then dipped her beak in fresh water that I had added the garlic and colloidal silver and put her back on the heating pad and cotton ball with the Vetrx on it.

That was about an hour ago. I just checked on her again and although she is still lethargic and her eyes are closed, but her breathing is no longer labored. So she is resting comfortably. I still think she is about to die, but I am hoping that maybe she can breath better with the VetRX. It has a strong camphor/eucalyptus odor to it.

Updating. Chick die shortly after I wrote the above. Bummer.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

It could possibly be brooder aspergillosis (brooder pneumonia), which is a fungal infection. I imagine you cleaned your brooder out really well before placing the chicks inside and there isn't any spoiled feed hiding anywhere?

It could also be cocci. It doesn't always present with bloody stool. I don't think it would hurt at this point to do a run of Corid and to take all of the bedding out of the brooder and give it a good scrub down.