Please help to tube feed my chick

[Eggcessive]

Have you read the go team tube feeding threads and others that were posted earlier. There is a lot of info about tubes there. If you use a red catheter, you will need a catheter tip syringe. The syringe in the picture will only fit aquarium air tubing. So there are 2 types of tubes and 2 types of syringes, and they have to match. The metal tubes are crop tubes used in birds, and I think most seem to use the rubber feeding tubes with chickens.

Glad that she is more alert. I would increase the feeding amount if she is losing, as long as she is digesting it. The only vitamin that is not given with Corid is thiamine (B1,) since Corid works by mimicing thiamine. It is fine to give after Corid is finished. Vitamin E can be given up to 400 IU daily.

 

[glassdragonfly]

She does look perkier! Your doing such a great job with her.

 

[Snowingamanda]

Have you read the go team tube feeding threads and others that were posted earlier. There is a lot of info about tubes there. If you use a red catheter, you will need a catheter tip syringe. The syringe in the picture will only fit aquarium air tubing. So there are 2 types of tubes and 2 types of syringes, and they have to match. The metal tubes are crop tubes used in birds, and I think most seem to use the rubber feeding tubes with chickens.

Glad that she is more alert. I would increase the feeding amount if she is losing, as long as she is digesting it. The only vitamin that is not given with Corid is thiamine (B1,) since Corid works by mimicing thiamine. It is fine to give after Corid is finished. Vitamin E can be given up to 400 IU daily.

Thank you so much, that’s very informative! I did read through the tube feeding team thread but it was a lot of information all at once so i horn overwhelmed. Your explanation is clear and direct. Thank you!!

 

[Snowingamanda]

Upped her dose from 6cc to 8cc per meal and she is 230g at weigh-in, up from 222g yesterday!

 

[Eggcessive]

That sounds good. Keep up the good work.

 

[Snowingamanda]

DAY 4 on Corid/Sulfa.
We are back home.
Yesterday she fought SC fluids so much that’s today I’ve decided to try without them, just giving her water with probiotics with a syringe. The SC fluids always perked her up so today she seems less awake.
Another change is that when i tube fed her the last few times the tube seemed to get stuck on something midway and I had to turn it to slide all the way, so I’ve decided to feed her less often but larger quantities, to disturb whatever sore there is less, and let it heal.
So, her morning feed was 15cc. Other than the tiny leakage next to her head she seems to be doing okay...

 

[Snowingamanda]

I don’t know if 15cc at once was not a good idea, or not having SC fluids or being colder than before (I put her in a box with half a warming pad but she stayed off of it the entire time, but she is so much worse off today :’(
She doesn’t chirp, doesn’t lift her head up, and when I took her out to give her fluids orally she just fell to her side
I’m warming up some SC fluids and will administer to her, and I moved her under the heat lamp. Her vitamins are coming tomorrow, but I think if she goes she goes today...

 

[Snowingamanda]

i Tried to pump warm fluids, she is shivering and not responsive. Should I try to pump out food from her crop??

 

[casportpony]

Can you get her in a room or cage that is 80-90 degrees?

 

[Snowingamanda]

Yes, she is under a heat lamp in our living room