Lpskitfit
Songster
- Oct 5, 2020
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Hey guys, so I went to a feed store today and noticed a dead-looking chick in their brooder being stepped all over. The employees got her out and let me take her home since they couldn't do anything about it. I've had her home for two hours now. She can't pick her head up or stand and seems to want to lay kinda on her side, like something is wrong with her wing. She also won't open her eyes, even for food, unless she's spooked by something. She just wants to sleep.
She can't eat solid food so we're doing watered down egg yolk and sugar water. She's touch and go, but seems to have perked up more since we got her home in general. When I feed her, I lightly dip the tip of her beak into the yolk or water and she tilts her head back to drink it. I noticed a clicking sound when she breathed and feared she may have aspirated, so I gently picked her up to look her over and she threw up a bit but the clicking stopped. She then ate a little more. We have a brooder box set up, but I've had her on a heating pad with a rag over her back because it's just as warm as her brooder and she seems comfortable. I'm just not confident she's going to make it and I'm not sure what else to do. Any advice is appreciated. Probably no more than six days old.