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UPDATE:
For the past couple weeks, we have been continually helping this chick by pulling yellow gunk out of its mouth almost every day. And while this chick is considerably smaller than her other hatch mates, she has been completely fine otherwise. We assume the size difference is because she wasn't eating as much.
Can chicks be born with canker? We are sure she was born with whatever this is.
We've been treating her with Nutri Drench and Colloidal Silver, and even yogurt. (The Nutri Drench has copper sulfate in it too).
She seemed like she was doing better! We didn't have to pull any gunk out for a couple days. It seemed all was well.
Well, yesterday, we found her huddling acting sleepy and not like herself. She seemed very weak, and we really didn't think she was going to make it for very much longer. We brought her inside, put her under a heat lamp, and every now and then give her nutri-drench in water, some apple cider vinegar, and colloidal silver.
She's just sleeping, and sleeping, and sleeping. Every once in a while it seems like she might have some kind of weird seizure. But she's still alive, and we did not think she would be today. Her poop looks normal, except almost all she's been eating now is the liquid nutri-drench because she's just sleepy and doesn't do much of anything.
I didn't bother posting anything about it yesterday, because we really thought she wouldn't make it another couple of hours let alone overnight.
But based on this, is there anything else anyone thinks it could be? Something we haven't thought of? Any clue if we can save her or not? We don't want her to suffer, but since she's still alive we are wondering if there is any chance she will live.
For the past couple weeks, we have been continually helping this chick by pulling yellow gunk out of its mouth almost every day. And while this chick is considerably smaller than her other hatch mates, she has been completely fine otherwise. We assume the size difference is because she wasn't eating as much.
Can chicks be born with canker? We are sure she was born with whatever this is.
We've been treating her with Nutri Drench and Colloidal Silver, and even yogurt. (The Nutri Drench has copper sulfate in it too).
She seemed like she was doing better! We didn't have to pull any gunk out for a couple days. It seemed all was well.
Well, yesterday, we found her huddling acting sleepy and not like herself. She seemed very weak, and we really didn't think she was going to make it for very much longer. We brought her inside, put her under a heat lamp, and every now and then give her nutri-drench in water, some apple cider vinegar, and colloidal silver.
She's just sleeping, and sleeping, and sleeping. Every once in a while it seems like she might have some kind of weird seizure. But she's still alive, and we did not think she would be today. Her poop looks normal, except almost all she's been eating now is the liquid nutri-drench because she's just sleepy and doesn't do much of anything.
I didn't bother posting anything about it yesterday, because we really thought she wouldn't make it another couple of hours let alone overnight.
But based on this, is there anything else anyone thinks it could be? Something we haven't thought of? Any clue if we can save her or not? We don't want her to suffer, but since she's still alive we are wondering if there is any chance she will live.
