Weak baby chick, possibly cocci, please help!

[Fancychooklady]

I also have cephalexin, 500 mg, and clindamycin, 300mg. Would any of these help if the chick also has a bacterial infection? And what doses? I don't want to play around with the chicken, but if it is going down like the others I have a small window to do something. Thanks for any help.

I have used cephalexin on grown chickens. I crush them in mortar and pestle draw up 10 ml of water in a syringe , squirt it in to the bowl , mix well and then draw it back up into the syringe. This gives me 10 x 1 ml doses that I administered morning and night for 5 days.
I would treat for cocci first as there may be no need for antibiotics.

Here's the chicken medicine chart.

https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/medicine-chart

Perhaps Di-Methox would hit 2 birds with one stone.

 

[abserbean]

Just weighed all three babies. Ace is just shy of 2 oz (not a digital scale), Tiny is the same size, and chunky Sunny is 2.5 oz. Thank you for the support! Such a tiny little life in my hands is stressful. I work in the medical field, and can handle sick people all day, but such a tiny baby is hard.

 

[abserbean]

I have used cephalexin on grown chickens. I crush them in mortar and pestle draw up 10 ml of water in a syringe , squirt it in to the bowl , mix well and then draw it back up into the syringe. This gives me 10 x 1 ml doses that I administered morning and night for 5 days.
I would treat for cocci first as there may be no need for antibiotics.

Here's the chicken medicine chart.

https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/medicine-chart

Perhaps Di-Methox would hit 2 birds with one stone.

They have already all been on corid for two days now, due to my chick I lost having bloody poop. Can I mix corid and another antibiotic, or do I need to discontinue the corid?

 

[casportpony]

They have already all been on corid for two days now, due to my chick I lost having bloody poop. Can I mix corid and another antibiotic, or do I need to discontinue the corid?

I have given Baytril, Metronidazole, Safeguard and Corid at same time and seen no ill effects. Best not to mix them in the same syringe, but they can be given one after the other.

Some antibiotics like Baytril and Cipro should not be given with calcium.

-Kathy

 

[lightchick]

Just weighed all three babies. Ace is just shy of 2 oz (not a digital scale), Tiny is the same size, and chunky Sunny is 2.5 oz. Thank you for the support! Such a tiny little life in my hands is stressful. I work in the medical field, and can handle sick people all day, but such a tiny baby is hard.

And how old are they? Are they bantams or LF?

 

[abserbean]

They are four days old, LF. Mom is now in with babies, they are eating the mashed eggs/chick starter/meal worm dinner, but Ace has only eaten one bite. She is just standing in the food. I'll try some sugar water with her again in about thirty mins.

 

[lightchick]

What breeds?

 

[casportpony]

I checked, the suspension was only good for 14 days, darn. Baby pooped, and it looks normal to me, no blood at least. I took a pic, but can't get the macro on my camera to work properly so it's blurry.


Ace giving me baby stink eye.


poop, looks okay?
I added the other two chicks, and Ace has calmed down, but now mom is freaked. I'll have to set up a dog crate for them all I guess, hubby is going to love this!

Poop looks pretty normal.

-Kathy

 

[Fancychooklady]

If you already have the corid , I would stick to that. The first week of life in any chick can be a bot ' touch and go ' . This link goes some way to explaining some of the problems that hatching chicks may encounter.

https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/medicine-chart

 

[abserbean]

Thanks for the links! I made a weak solution of the cephalaxin and fed baby .5 cc. Thankfully, mine are capsules with powder, not pills I have to grind, so hopefully the mix was okay without the suspension material. I will go to the feed store and pick up something for chickens tomorrow, instead of trying to use my leftovers from my root canal. I'm keeping the corid water in the broody box, mom has made a "nest" in the corner and babies are settling down. I have a heat lamp on, even though they don't really need it with mom, the chicks seem to like the heat. Not sure I can do anything else tonight but monitor. She is nowhere near as sick as the chick yesterday, so hopefully we make it through the night. Def. much quieter/sleepier than the other chicks, which wasn't the case yesterday. All chicks have now pooped, and everyone's poo looks okay. Hoping this works, and she bounces back!

I'm not sure what breeds they are, b/c they were fertile eating eggs from a farm swap. Sunny was from a green egg, and looks EE-chipmunk markings and cheek poufs, Ace was from a dark brown probable marans egg, but has cheek poufs so I'm guessing OE (marans x ee roo), and Tiny is a grey chick from a white egg, no idea what his parentage may be.

Babies are all snuggled under mom, right beside me at the computer. Going to be another long night I think. What do you do? I love these little fluffy butts too much not to try!