sick chick

[cutipatooti]

I got some new chick's on monday. 2 of them are polish. The shop said to give the silver polish extra attention. Well he has pasty butt, which I keep cleaning. He is very weak droopy wings, does a nice poop when I clean him off. He does manage to drink. He stumbles around as he walks but only walks a short distance before he lays down. What can I do to help him.

 

[chicmom]

Chop up a hard boiled egg yolk and see if he'll eat some. Also you could put some Save-A-Chick in their drinking water to help perk him up. He may come out of this just fine. I've had a few chicks that behaved very similar to the one you describe, and they did seem to recover and do nicely.

 

[Nicole01]

I use probios and poly vi sol infant vitamins without iron. It saved my very sick chicks last year!

The real sick ones I put the drops in my hand and guided their beak into drinking a drop or two twice a day. I sprinkle the probios in wet feed. I also use the vitamins/probiotics on my healthy chicks to prevent sickness this batch around.

Good luck!

 

[cutipatooti]

Thanks

 

[ronott1]

Thanks

Hi cutipatooti,

I saw your post on the Heritage RIR thread and was trying to figure out where you are. So forgive me for answering a couple of posts here. I will also post on the RIR thread.

Give the chicks a little bit of plain yogurt along with the hard boiled egg. Also, get some chick grit from a store like the Tractor Store. Make sure it is for baby chicks, not chickens and parrots. When they are stressed, they have trouble getting their digestion going.

Ron

 

[cutipatooti]

thanks. This is an old post and despite my efforts and all the wonderful advice the chick's did not make it. FYI I live in ny

 

[SkylaSilkie]

Did you do what the shop guy said?My chicks dont need much attention, but my little one with no mother is healthy. I hatched it from an egg and when it started drinking I put molasses in its water and now it doing just fine.