Where to get antibiotics for baby chicks

[emmascot]

Ssssooooo
Oh my goodness
So I just register on this site and now it feels like I jinked myself!!

Anyway
I have 3 days old chick that do not open his eyes.
He didn't eat or drink today as he can't see a thing.
I cleaned his eyes today with q-tip dipped in cold boiled water
And I fed him with first crushed chick crumbed and water in a kind of mush
But then I found some emeraid intensive care omnivore so I fed him this ( he took about 1amd a half tiny syringe ( but then he might have been really full from the previous feed after a day of no food

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I then listen to him breathing and I think he does have a wee respiratory issue
The 2 questions I have :

- I read somewhere that wee chick need fed every 2 hours, does it mean nitgh time included ?

- I think I need some type of antibiotics but I don't have an avian vet around and going to the school vet like I did last year for my hens is a real trek I am not sure the baby will survive, so how can I get antibiotics to treat him/ her?

 

[Pyxis]

Can you describe your brooder setup?

If he's not eating because he can't see, baby parrot formula is the best thing to feed him. Barring that, mix chick feed, water, and nutri drench into a mash and offer him that.

Are his eyes runny and that's why they can't open? You say he's having respiratory issues too? He may have a chronic respiratory disease if that's the case. Some can pass from mother to baby through the egg and he may have hatched with it. If that is the case, he will infect all the rest of your birds if you treat him because he will still be a carrier. And that means you can never sell or give away birds or eggs for hatching so you don't infect someone else's flock.

Can you post a picture of the eye problems?

As for antibiotics, you can't get them if you don't go to a vet. A recent law that passed made it so a lot of previous OTC medications are now only available by prescription. And without knowing what he has for sure or even that he really does need antibiotics, I wouldn't be putting him on them anyway.

If you think it's just an eye problem, you could get some Terramycin and apply that to his eyes a couple times a day.

 

[emmascot]

When I listen to him breathing I can hear a wee clap sound
His eyes are closed but not weeping
I am going to get some eye drops at the chemist tomorrow
I might phone the vets around the area too and see if one knows about chickens enough to risk taking the baby chick there and have him looked at

 

[emmascot]

I just fed him some emeraid so he is a bit grubby
He hatch from incubator
He was on his own mostly we had another chick how hatched but had an enconter with our cat

So now we have a new hatched serama
In a secured caged. With a brooder.
the mum is out in the garden
I am going to get another one set up for him on his own I guess
Or should I try and get another incubator for him?