week old poult blowing mucus bubbles

[Shaun]

Found one of my weak old poults blowing thick mucus bubbles from his beak. Helped him rinse it out with clean water by gently dipping his beak. He then vomited some feed. Have isolated him with one other that keeps shaking his head.

They've been having ACV and vitamins in their water since I got them. They've seemed fine right up until this morning.

First time we've raised poults without baby chix with them, didn't have any - so THESE are the guys that get sick, of course.

Any advice? These are Blue Slates and Bourbon Reds - net cheap birds.

 

[SproutGirl]

I had this happen to some of my chicks and I though it was because of the pine shavings that they were in. I thought they might be eating them or drinking water that had the shavings in it. The reason I thought this is because my cat had the same reaction when she drank water from the Christmas tree. Anyway, I took out the pine shavings, and gave them straw. They stopped with the bubbling and have been very healthy ever since. Do you think this could help you?

 

[Shaun]

We're on hardwood shavings covered with about 6 layers of paper toweling. So not so likely. Now we have one poult with bloody diarreah, so we've got yogurt and am getting out the organic oatmeal.