Wheezing / Coughing Chick.. I have Tylan. Now what?

[Advaya]

I have a 5 day old Rhode Island Red who is just not feeling very well. She has stopped eating and drinking, and is pretty much sleeping all the time. She seems to have a respiratory issue going on that we noticed last night because she clicks when she breathes.

I've researched quite a bit using this site and I just got back from town with Poly-Vi-Sol and Tylan 50. The majority of the threads I've looked at are for adult chickens, so I'm not sure of the dosage she needs. Right now I've tried to get her to at least have some vitamins and I'll just wait here for a response before I give the injection.

Also, the smallest gauge needles they had at the tractor supply were 22 gauge. This is larger than the gauge recommended for adults! I didn't know this before I got back and I live VERY far from the nearest town. Can I use these needles or do I need to wait until this evening when I can get back to the pharmacy? Can it be given orally?

The syringe I have is 3 mL (cc). Is cc and mL the same? As in if the dosages were for instance 1/4 cc, I'd just fill the syringe up to the line below the 0.5, correct?

 

[Advaya]

She's doing really poorly now. It's not looking good. She's almost coughing, or wheezing. Liquid occasionally comes from her mouth. I think at this point the Tylan isn't going to help

 

[leighhancock]

You can try giving her one small drop orally. You don't have to inject it. (Tylan 50)

 

[Advaya]

Thank you. I will do that.

I have her in a small box inside the brooder so she is isolated. She has a very shallow dish (like an espresso saucer) of water mixed with food, but I honestly don't see her getting up to eat it. It's only there in case of a miracle and she recovers while I'm not in the room. At this point I can't believe she's hanging on

 

[Advaya]

I gave her a drop. I was having difficultly managing the syringe to feed her and had to use the needle placed on her beak, so she may have gotten two squirts of it, but it was still not much at all. I'm hoping for the best. She did swallow what was placed on her beak.

Her mouth is really mucousy looking when she opens her beak, obviously things should be wet in there, but this seems quite severe. Definitely respiratory, so the antibiotics are probably my only hope.

 

[Advaya]

I just went to check on her... and she has passed on.

Thank you for your help though. I think I may have given her too much tylan. Either that or it just was a hopeless case. Poor baby