Small Chick ate a balloon

[Eggcessive]

Stop the vinegar. Offer plain water. Do not attempt to make it vomit, which can lead to choking and death. Offer the chick small pieces of coconut oil cut into tiny pieces to eat. Or use a little oil added to some feed. This will hopefully stimulate it to poop and pass the balloon particles. Don’t expect to see any, but hopefully the chick will be okay.

 

[mdusman]

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Do not make the chick vomit.... there is way too high of a chance of aspirating her. Not a good idea at all, and is only used in extreme situations to treat impacted crops - which you have no evidence of yet. Just keep an eye on her (him)?, check the crop every morning and make sure it’s empty. Observe if you can and look for eating and drinking. If she is acting fine, I wouldn’t worry. Chickens eat all kinds of crazy things all the time and are normally fine. Grit, btw is just small pieces of crushed rock.

I only made it vomit as to cure it. Won't do it again. Also to mention the crop is neither hard nor full. But it makes a balloon like sound when ever i try squeezing it slowly or gently. The fact that they eat crazy thing is true one of my chciken ate a candy wrapper and the next morning it was fine. But still im worried coz this time its a balloon

 

[svh]

If it makes you feel better, I drilled some holes in a plastic bucket, and before I could make it around to clean the pieces up, the chickens had made a circle around the pile, and were gobbling it down !

That was months ago, and there were zero problems. I'm sure it wasn't good for them, but they were fine !

Good luck !

 

[mdusman]

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Stop the vinegar. Offer plain water. Do not attempt to make it vomit, which can lead to choking and death. Offer the chick small pieces of coconut oil cut into tiny pieces to eat. Or use a little oil added to some feed. This will hopefully stimulate it to poop and pass the balloon particles. Don’t expect to see any, but hopefully the chick will be okay.

Oil? How about olive oil i have heard it works right?

 

[mdusman]

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If it makes you feel better, I drilled some holes in a plastic bucket, and before I could make it around to clean the pieces up, the chickens had made a circle around the pile, and were gobbling it down !

That was months ago, and there were zero problems. I'm sure it wasn't good for them, but they were fine !

Good luck !

Thanks mate. The moment it will start eating will be the moment i would be relieved. Hoping for it to eat.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

Oil

Oil? How about olive oil i have heard it works right?

If you don't have coconut oil I'm sure you can try it. I think most people use coconut oil because it is solid at room temp and easier to feed to the chickens. Is there any kind of sour smell emitting from the crop? I agree too, stop the vinegar.

 

[mdusman]

If you don't have coconut oil I'm sure you can try it. I think most people use coconut oil because it is solid at room temp and easier to feed to the chickens. Is there any kind of sour smell emitting from the crop? I agree too, stop the vinegar.

Smell? I think not. Tho the natural smell is there but there is nothing like foul or sour in it. Yes i have coconut oil and due to winters its solid but how do i make it eat?

 

[Eggcessive]

Yes any type of oil is fine if added to a little food, but don’t give the oil directly into the beak, because if it chokes, it can aspirate. The chilled coconut oil is safer, if she can take that on her own. Other chilled solid oil would work too, such as vegetable shortening.

 

[mdusman]

Yes any type of oil is fine if added to a little food, but don’t give the oil directly into the beak, because if it chokes, it can aspirate. The chilled coconut oil is safer, if she can take that on her own. Other chilled solid oil would work too, such as vegetable shortening.

Nah man the problem is it is not taking and i dont know how do i feed it the coco oil?

 

[FortCluck]

Nah man the problem is it is not taking and i dont know how do i feed it the coco oil?

Mix it in with its food. If you don’t have chick grit, get some dirt from outside and put it in a dish for the chick.

Do you have wet cat food or wet dog food? See if the chick will eat anything besides it’s chick feed. If it hasn’t eaten for days that to me is a sign that the chick isn’t healthy and I doubt it’s from the balloon. You need to get the chick to eat something.

Is this chick by itself? Chickens are a flock bird and they do not do well by themselves.