Please help, baby chickens are dying.

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Yesterday I posted a thread about a baby chick who had what I believed to be wry neck. She died 3 - 5 hours later. I then had another chick with the same symptoms, and this one we had enough time to research and try to help. We did (and still do not) have any grit, so we gave her a spinach smoothie to give her vitamin E. She also died a few hours later. I gave all of our other chickens some smoothie.
Today I got some vitamin supplements for them, as well as Vitamin E pills to dissolve and give them. I gave them each a small amount of the supplement.
We now have another one that is sick. Symptoms include:
Neck drooping and twisting back
Poor balance
Loud, erratic peeping
Inability to eat or drink, even when liquid is on beak.

It is coming on very fast, and most likely won't make it for many more hours.

A bit more information:
She is being brooded under a hen, who is very good, so it's most likely not that.
She is eating spout medicated chick starter.
I received them on the 5th of this month, from Murray McMurray Hatchery.

If you want more information, please ask.
Please please please help, I don't think she has very long.
 
She also continues to open and shut her beak, but she's not saying anything, and does not really seem like she is looking for food or water.
 
I don't think Annie (the chick) isn't going to make it, but does anyone have any ideas on what it might be, and how to prevent it in all the other chicks?
 
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Update, she died. We ordered fifteen for a coop for twelve. She was our last backup, so no more are allowed to die.
It's a very helpless feeling. They're all dying, one after the other.
She seemed to be trying to stand up. She was flapping around the box, so I was worried she'd hurt herself. I picked her up, and she died.
After she died, clear liquid, saliva?, came out of her beak. I noticed this with the other chicks too. It might be a normal post-mortem thing, but just thought i'd put that up there just in case.
If anyone on here can help, I would so, so, so, appreciate it. I'm worried all of them are going to die. They're 1/5th there.
And if you can't help, thanks for reading anyway.
I'm going to go check on the remaining ones.
 
Two additional questions, can we give them too much Rooster Booster? Don't want to give them too much, but also not too little.
Also, what symptoms would they have if they ingested too much pine shavings?
If you need additional information, all too happy to provide.
 

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