You left me hanging ... more info on Olive, Roxy and Rocco

[SundownWaterfowl]

This time I downed the dose of Terramycin to one teaspoon. It is only a quart waterbottle and the feed store had avised me to put a HEAPING teaspoon in there ... please don't beat me up ... I have learned .... I will never ask their help again ... I know this was too much. IF YOU HAVE EXPERIANCE WITH DOSEAGES AND STILL FEEL THIS IS MUCH PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

The dose is 2 teaspoons per gallon. So for a quart I would only use 1/2 teaspoon.​

 

[gypsygirl1421]

One thing that I did when my chicks were sick was buy the package of vitamins and electolytes and mixed that in with the terramycin. I had several pretty sick chicks, lethargic, not moving, not eating. I made them drink with an eyedropper and they perked right up. In the end I only lost one and the rest came around right away. I added the vitamins to the water for the next 2 weeks. The sell it at TSC.

 

[kodiakchicken]

I can't help you with dosages or diagnoses, I just wanted to give you a shoulder of support. There are so many of us here that have no idea what we're doing and we are going through similar struggles. It's not your fault if you lose one (one in the big batch we ordered with friends came in weak and just didn't make it).

I do know that mine are about 10 days old now and they sleep A LOT. Especially since we got the other five I was chick-sitting out of the cage. Sometimes I look in the brooder and they are laying down with their necks stretched out and it scares me to death! But they are still babies, and as such they mainly sleep, eat and poop!

Is Olive maybe just a mellow soul? I have a little Buff Orpington that got picked on when she was tiny and now is the sweetest, mellowist chick you could ever want. If I pick her up she doesn't flutter at all, she just sits down in my hand and doesn't move. At first I thought she was ill but she's just a quiet little one. She still gets in and eats and snuggles with the others.

Hang in there and know you are doing the best you can. You're a good chick mama just for caring so much!

 

[olivesmom]

Quite honestly Olive has been doing much better since being onthe antibiotic. Not that I am saying that it was the cure. Maybe adding the new fiestier chick helped. Maybe she is just feeling more at home. I don't know why but the morning after Roxy died she was not he same ....

I appreciate the kind words and other have sent PMs with the same thoughts. I am really looking forward to the chcks getting a little bigger, stronger and moving out to the coop. I have said in other emails .... I am a worrier. I spend most of the day just watching the babies, checking their bumbs, making sure they are pooping, drinking and ating, not sitting under the lamp and not sitting too far from the lamp with hopes and prayers that they can make it into nice big chickens!

Bests,
Charlotte