PLEASE help!! 9 weeks old chick not walking

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Thank you it is frustrating when they dont tell you where it hurts.
I felt like she didnt eat all day and I just now tube fed her after watching Kathy`s video and going through her threads.
I wasent ready but it felt like I had too.
Kathy I grounded her chick crumbles mixed that with warm water and a spoon of coconut oil and pushed that in her throat.
I had to improvise the tube so that mash can go through.
I used a frosting applier. Cut a tv wire and emptied it. It was the right size to go inside the frosting thing and fed her the mash.
At least i know her belly is full and she took it nicely.
I keep giving her the vitamin water as well.
Her legs are still the same and I will watch her poop tomorrow after all the feed.
 
I am learning from great teachers.
I went yesterday through Kathy`s necropsy thread with my heart in my throat.
I really wish I will never have to do that but if this poor chick cant make it I would like to know if possible what took her, for the sake of the others as well.
You guys are amazing and are empowering people with what you do.
I admire all of you very very much.

And here is my little girl in the morning... and her poop




Her legs are still the same, not holding her at all. Her toes dont respond to the touch. I think she doesnt feel her legs at all but when hold on her back can kick them very well.
I will monitor her eating. I have the remaining of the mash I made yesterday in the fridge.
How much crumbles would you give a chick almost 11 weeks old?

Thanks again everyone for all your help and encouraging words
 
Tubing is part science and part art... If they aren't drinking they need to have fluids tubed, which you're sort of doing when you mix her crumbles with water. It might be a good idea to tube some water twice a day. Not too much, just enough to make a slight bulge in her crop. As for the amount of food to tube, it really depends on how much they weigh, the elasticity of their crops and how well they tolerate having food in their crops. Seems the sicker are more likely to vomit than the healthier ones. She's young, so she should be gaining weight daily. I'll go out on a limb and say that the amount of food she needs is between 30-60ml twice a day, but don't give that much just because I mentioned it, give the amount that makes a slight bulge in her crop, wait for it to clear a little and repeat. Do this until you can figure out the *safe* maximum amount for her size.

Does that help?

-Kathy
 
Yes it helps a lot.
Thanks Kathy.
I am also having difficulties measuring the vitamins everyday so they are fresh. The package says 4 oz in 128 gallon. I figured out is about 1 gr per gallon but I don't want to make a gallon and have to throw most of it.
I am eyeballing a little here, just shaking some vitamin with a salt shaker in a cup of water and syringing it to her.
I thing I will try to mix it with food instead
 
Thanks fancychooklady I will try to make her a swing.
I didn't understand from the threat how that hangs to support her but I will research it some more.
 

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