Stunted growth and loss of feathers in 2/3 week old chicks. What do I do for them?

[Kiki]

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. This one's rear end looks quite swollen...or does it just appear that way in the photo?

 

[RooandherRooster]

. This one's rear end looks quite swollen...or does it just appear that way in the photo?

I am a little bit confused. This is why I don't get birds from auctions and stuff, because you can't really get a straight answer. They are supposed to be Lavender Orpingtons, they already messed up a couple in that group. The one I have I believe is actually a Blue Copper Maran. But they seem to be meaty birds. Like, my mom and dad were trying out the Cornish Rocks this past year and, as chicks they were so much meatier than I'm used to. Well, I've never owned Lav Orp so I don't know what they are supposed to feel like, and they are heavy birds I know. But being that they don't have all their feathers in, I don't know if that's why they feel so much bigger than they actually might be. So I don't know if its swollen or normal for them

 

[Kiki]

I am a little bit confused. This is why I don't get birds from auctions and stuff, because you can't really get a straight answer. They are supposed to be Lavender Orpingtons, they already messed up a couple in that group. The one I have I believe is actually a Blue Copper Maran. But they seem to be meaty birds. Like, my mom and dad were trying out the Cornish Rocks this past year and, as chicks they were so much meatier than I'm used to. Well, I've never owned Lav Orp so I don't know what they are supposed to feel like, and they are heavy birds I know. But being that they don't have all their feathers in, I don't know if that's why they feel so much bigger than they actually might be. So I don't know if its swollen or normal for them

They LOOK like meat birds.

I think someone at the auction lied about what breed they are.

 

[RooandherRooster]

I was with the chicks today and the biggest one looked like it got pecked in the eye a little bit after we got them, but I didn't think anything of it much. Well, it looked like their was a swollen "gland" or something in front of they eye, and I thought he was just still sick or something but his other eye is fine. Today though, its a little bit sunken in and I haven't seen this before, but it like bubbled a bit. He is still growing though, almost twice as big, and feels prickly to hold because of all the new feathers coming in. However, I also saw the smallest one had a very little bit of bubbliness in her eye, couldn't see the other eye very good so couldn't tell if it was in both though. It's only in the front corner of the eye or so. Sometimes the little one will have a sneezing fit and the bubbles came over half her eye. I tried to get pictures and a video, but I'm not sure how well you will be able to see it

 

[RooandherRooster]

His eye is more sunken in today and maybe more redish. Today was the first time I saw it bubbling though, it doesn't show in the picture however I don't think.

 

[RooandherRooster]

We originally had them on Corid, then transferred them to VetRX, and today we put them on Oxytetrahcycline HCI Broad Spectrum Antibiotic to try and clear anything up.

 

[RooandherRooster]

Here is the link to the video of the chicks.

 

[Kiki]

His eye is more sunken in today and maybe more redish. Today was the first time I saw it bubbling though, it doesn't show in the picture however I don't think.

This poor thing.

Here he looks nothing like a meat bird.

He looks like he might have some frizzly feathers.

 

[Kiki]

We originally had them on Corid, then transferred them to VetRX, and today we put them on Oxytetrahcycline HCI Broad Spectrum Antibiotic to try and clear anything up.

Do you have other chickens besides these?


Are you aware that thesebirds may be carriers of something that may never go away?

 

[RooandherRooster]

Yes, we've been washing and changing in between each coop. We are trying to put the new barred plymouth rocks in with my original flock this week, and then we have a smaller coop specifically for my bantams I'm gonna do for fair. We have these chicks inside, but bring them out in a pen to get some grass and sun and exercise.
I thought about how they might be carriers, but I didn't think about if it would go away or not. Would that just mean they could never go in with any of my chickens safely?