Please help to tube feed my chick

[casportpony]

Do you have a thermometer in with her? I've had very bad luck with heat lamps, so now I stick a portable heater in my bathroom and set it to high. Somewhere between 80 and 90 degrees is what works best for me.

 

[Snowingamanda]

Yes, I have a digital thermometer. I’m gonna go grab it’s and out it with her. I have portable lamps too, so I can move her to the bathroom with one right now. Do you think I should siphon out the feed from her crop and pump more SC fluids?

 

[aart]

i Tried to pump warm fluids,

You tubed them?

 

[Snowingamanda]

You tubed them?

No, SC

 

[casportpony]

Do you think I should siphon out the feed from her crop and pump more SC fluids?

I think you need to get her warmed up somehow, then think about giving more subcutaneous fluids. Since she has a crop full of food, prop her head and neck up so she doesn't accidently vomit and aspirate.

 

[Snowingamanda]

Ok will do right now, thank you!

 

[Snowingamanda]

Ok I propped her and then i did try to syphon out feed from her crop but nothing showed up in the tube (or on it). I tried to feel her crop and I think I feel some but not much, - but I’m not sure I’m even doing it right.
She is not shivering or twitching anymore. I’m still waiting for my thermometer in the bathroom to raise to appropriate temps, it’s in low 80s now, so I’ll transfer her here as soon as it’s in the upper 80s.

 

[casportpony]

Update?

 

[Snowingamanda]

She is in critical but stable condition. She is still breathing. Her temp prob went up a little because she started panting so I lowered the temp by 1 degree and she is now breathing through her nose again, but no improvement whatsoever

 

[casportpony]

When you give subcutaneous fluids, where do you give them on her?