Two Weeks, Two Deaths Baby Chicks Need Input/Suggestions PLEASE What am I doing Wrong?!

[Eggcessive]

Thanks, Eggcessive. I had read about others having some positive results with a syringe flush/enema in loosening backed up stools. I hope I did not hurt Beatrice further by doing what I did. I just felt that, given her condition, she was going to die and I had to at least try to help her. I will have to look in to that further for any future emergencies. Thanks for the links to the articles. I just made a new solution of Corid at a higher dose. Based on what I am reading I was not treating with a high enough dose if they, indeed, do have cocci. I hope they will all make it. Just looked around at poop in the coop and it all looks good. However, Beatrice was A-OK throughout yesterday and then this morning was deathly ill, succumbing within an hour of my finding her to whatever it was that killed her. I felt so helpless. She died in my hands.

Oh, you are welcome. I think it would be okay to flush a few cc//ml into the vent, just not pull anything back out with the syringe. For a broken egg inside the vent, this would probably help with using a weak vinegar solution. I have read of vets removing contents of a stuck egg with a syringe an needle--sounds too dangerous, though. Beatrice looks like some of my chicks that were EE or welsummer.

 

[smalldog]

Wanted to update you all....I decided to go forward with the necropsy and dropped Beatrice off at the State lab today. They told me that I should have initial results via email by COB this Friday. I will update when they are received. Thanks again for all of the suggestions, encouragement and recommended articles. Please continue to send me your thoughts on what I might do to increase the survival rate of my chicks. There are only five remaining now -- I have lost two in two weeks.