The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[Peep-Chicken]

Definitely males.

X2!

 

[NikkiCole5]

Can anyone help me?
One of my Easter HAL chicks is acting sick. He is gasping for air, constantly breathes very heavy with his beak open.
They are still in the brooder with heat lamp, so I don't think its gape worm. He sits off by himself and doesn't seem to be eating or drinking. I just noticed it last night and tried to drip some electrolyte water on his beak with my fingers but I don't think he drank much. 

The others all seem fine. 

After a bit of research people said it might be either chick pneumonia (from fungus that can grow in brooders) or a hereditary heart problem that will make him weaker and weaker. Either way, it doesn't look good....

My duckling did the same, we bought her some medicine from our local vet supply store, it is an oil you put in the water and it smells like Vick

 

[LadyCluck77]

Thank you for sharing about the medicine. Do you remember what it was called?

The poor chick died yesterday, but in case others caught the pneumonia I would like to have some on hand. He was one of only three lavender Ameraucana chicks I hatched for the HAL.
I don't want to lose any more.

 

[NikkiCole5]

Thank you for sharing about the medicine. Do you remember what it was called?

The poor chick died yesterday, but in case others caught the pneumonia I would like to have some on hand. He was one of only three lavender Ameraucana chicks I hatched for the HAL.
I don't want to lose any more.

This stuff

 

[CherMoz]

Thank you for sharing about the medicine. Do you remember what it was called?

The poor chick died yesterday, but in case others caught the pneumonia I would like to have some on hand. He was one of only three lavender Ameraucana chicks I hatched for the HAL.

I don't want to lose any more.

So sorry for the loss.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Red comb on one of my Easter babies!

Male.

Can anyone help me?
One of my Easter HAL chicks is acting sick. He is gasping for air, constantly breathes very heavy with his beak open.
They are still in the brooder with heat lamp, so I don't think its gape worm. He sits off by himself and doesn't seem to be eating or drinking. I just noticed it last night and tried to drip some electrolyte water on his beak with my fingers but I don't think he drank much.

The others all seem fine.

After a bit of research people said it might be either chick pneumonia (from fungus that can grow in brooders) or a hereditary heart problem that will make him weaker and weaker. Either way, it doesn't look good....

Overheated? Did you check for pasty butt?

These 2 hatched 3/28 in my test batch. What to you think???? Roos to be???

Both are absolutely males.

Quote: I'm so sorry.

 

[LadyCluck77]

None of the other 15 chicks in the brooders have come down with the symptoms, yet. Thank you so much everyone for helping me try to figure this out;

All of the chick's droppings look normal. No bloody or runny droppings, so I don't think it's coccidiosis. They do have the standard medicated chick feed. I give them plain water, changed twice a day.

The tiredness seemed to be the first symptom, he would spend his time off in the corner and slept almost all day long. Then he was bobbing his tail in a weird way, that started about the next day, I checked for pasty butt, however; it looked perfectly clean and great- he actually was very clean, his feathers were really coming in beautiful- also, the thermometer read 70 F in the brooders, so I don't believe he was too hot.

I realized the tail bobbing was a result of hard, whole-body breathing. Then he just started breathing really heavy, every breath he would open his beak and gasp.

I couldn't see anything in his mouth, but if he had swallowed a wood chip or something it might have been lodged deeper in the throat.
He had completely stopped eating and drinking and pretty much stayed in the same spot.

So I tried to get him to drink water but at that point he was too far gone- he wasn't even running from me when I went to pick him up and his eyes were rolling like they couldn't focus.
He didn't move much.

When I dripped water on his beak he didn't move his beak afterwards, the water would just drip off.
When I found him dead he'd crawled under the Brinsea Ecoglow and that was where he died- another chick was cuddled with him- I found him when I got home from work. The three of these Ameraucanas were from shipped eggs so they have always been a little smaller and weaker than the other hatchmates. It was just very strange to have one up and die like that. I have one male and one female left, but the female is definitely not as hardy as the others. She also sleeps a lot and seems smaller and weaker than she should be at four weeks.

Also, she seems to be eating the other chick's droppings frequently. (Not sure if that's just a weird personality trait, or related to whatever is going on)

Is it "failure to thrive"?

 

[Mama Bay]

2 of my Cochin bantam boys got pecked on today

I seperated them from the others and put their sister in with them too just in case though she doesn't seem to be having any problems ...Any thing else I should do? Should I wait until they are completely healed up before putting them back with the others?

 

[Darnbunnies]

2 of my Cochin bantam boys got pecked on today

I seperated them from the others and put their sister in with them too just in case though she doesn't seem to be having any problems ...Any thing else I should do? Should I wait until they are completely healed up before putting them back with the others?

Do you know if the hens or a rooster attacked the little boys?

 

[jbenson]

2 of my Cochin bantam boys got pecked on today

I seperated them from the others and put their sister in with them too just in case though she doesn't seem to be having any problems ...Any thing else I should do? Should I wait until they are completely healed up before putting them back with the others?

I would spray that wound with blue coat to prevent any picking if you aren't going to keep him isolated. The red will attract picking by flockmates. I would wait until fully healed to try to return that bird to the flock.