Weak chick? - slow @ grabbing treats and stays in corner a lot

Sparko

In the Brooder
Mar 10, 2020
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I have 3 approximately 3 month old silkies and yesterday I was feeding them watermelon and noticed that the other one stopped early and went to a corner and slept.

Today I was feeding them spaghetti noodles and the same chick was slow and often her noodle was eaten by the other two. After a few failed attempts she went to the corner and stood still. I have a short clip as well as a photo of what she’s doing right now (sleeping?)
video right before she “slept”:
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Please help, I’m really worried about her :(
 
Is she having any runny poops? If you have some electrolytes and vitamins, I would give some now. Try to get it eating some chicken feed made wet with water. You could also try to give it amprollium in the water to treat it for possible coccidiosis. Do you know what people there or vets give chicks for coccidiosisin the Philippines? In some countries, they use amprollium, and in others, sulfa antibiotics or toltrazuril.
 
Is she having any runny poops? If you have some electrolytes and vitamins, I would give some now. Try to get it eating some chicken feed made wet with water. You could also try to give it amprollium in the water to treat it for possible coccidiosis. Do you know what people there or vets give chicks for coccidiosisin the Philippines? In some countries, they use amprollium, and in others, sulfa antibiotics or toltrazuril.
I’ll ask the poultry store - should I separate her or is it fine to feed them all water with Amprolium?
 
Update: they were all walking around their coop and the weak one let out a diarrhea type of sound while pooping and here’s what the poop looks like:

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More video clips:
Random goopy white thing outside their coop:
two of them in a corner:
the other two eating but waffles isn’t:
 
I would try to get amprollium started if you can get it, and put it in the water. Before that get her drinking water with electrolytes or a bit of sugar. She is having watery droppings, and occasional cecal poops. The cecal poop looks dark, perhaps old blood, but hard to know for sure.
 
I would try to get amprollium started if you can get it, and put it in the water. Before that get her drinking water with electrolytes or a bit of sugar. She is having watery droppings, and occasional cecal poops. The cecal poop looks dark, perhaps old blood, but hard to know for sure.
Is it ok for all of them to drink the water with the amprollium? I’m otw to the chicken supplies store rn hopefully they have it pr an alternative in stock.
 
Is it ok for all of them to drink the water with the amprollium? I’m otw to the chicken supplies store rn hopefully they have it pr an alternative in stock.
There’s no amprolium in the chicken supplies store :(

EDIT: My dad’s traveling somewhere to deliver stuff and managed to find this:
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is it safe to add this to the water of all three?
 
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Update: I made all three get out of the coop since waffles wasn’t moving and they’re walking around now. One or two of them pooped but I’m not sure who - the poo was surrounded by liquid that looks like oil.
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I caught waffles pooping and this is what it looks like:
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Ginger also pooed a similar type of poo :(
 
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Another update, I noticed the sick chick has some yellow stuff on the sides of her beak that the other two don’t have - what could it be?
 

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