PLEASE HELP!!! ;(

[Tiger1979]

Please help!! I have 2 chicks that me and my family have grown very attached too, and were lucky enough to see hatching. But now both are very sick due to their water tank having a leek causing chicks to become wet and cold. I have since dried them and they ate and drank but now of a sudden they have become weak and stiff and wont move and breathing is very rapid. I have no idea what to do, is it possible to save them we would really would be devastated if we lost them....

 

[nchls school]

Please help!! I have 2 chicks that me and my family have grown very attached too, and were lucky enough to see hatching. But now both are very sick due to their water tank having a leek causing chicks to become wet and cold. I have since dried them and they ate and drank but now of a sudden they have become weak and stiff and wont move and breathing is very rapid. I have no idea what to do, is it possible to save them we would really would be devastated if we lost them....

I am sorry that no one replied to your post. It is probably much too late to be of help. Warmth is all I could have suggested. Once chilled their bodies weaken. I hope your chicks survived.

It would seem that there are not enough of us to reach out to all that have posted. Again, sorry.

 

[Tiger1979]

Thank you so much for your reply unfortunately my chicks didn't survive I did some of my own research by looking up similar questions to mine and also looked up chicks symptoms up on Google, and from what I read I think they had Mareks Disease as they had most of the symptoms. A diease that sadly is untreatable. Below I have attached some great links for future readers expressing problems with there chickens. Again thanks for caring.

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/common-chicken-illnesses-and-treatments.html

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/90/mareks-disease/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-great-big-giant-mareks-disease-faq

 

[Berlin]

Thank you so much for your reply unfortunately my chicks didn't survive

I did some of my own research by looking up similar questions to mine and also looked up chicks symptoms up on Google, and from what I read I think they had Mareks Disease as they had most of the symptoms. A diease that sadly is untreatable. Below I have attached some great links for future readers expressing problems with there chickens. Again thanks for caring.

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/common-chicken-illnesses-and-treatments.html

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/90/mareks-disease/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-great-big-giant-mareks-disease-faq

I am sorry they didn't live.

 

[BorealisChick71]

Thank you so much for your reply unfortunately my chicks didn't survive

I did some of my own research by looking up similar questions to mine and also looked up chicks symptoms up on Google, and from what I read I think they had Mareks Disease as they had most of the symptoms. A diease that sadly is untreatable. Below I have attached some great links for future readers expressing problems with there chickens. Again thanks for caring.

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/common-chicken-illnesses-and-treatments.html

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/90/mareks-disease/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-great-big-giant-mareks-disease-faq

So sorry for your loss.