Youngster looking unwell (after hurricane)

[yeye5]

How many chickens do you have in with the sick one?

I'd make a "drench" batch and make sure the little sick one gets dosed straight to the beak asap in addition to adding the Corid to the waterer.

Drench recipe: mix 1/2 teaspoon Corid with 2 teaspoons of water and give the chick 0.34 ml per pound twice a day for 3 days

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RE drench:
I assume syringe dropper fed. Is there extreme danger of aspiration? (I have drooper fed other species and that was a big concern).

No we don't go thru that much water in a day! I dump 1/2 to 2/3, scrub, bleach, soak, rinse and refill every other day or if extremely busy every 3rd day.

 

[Kiki]

I'm guessing she is small...two or three DROPS should do....drop it on the beak so she can swallow it herself.

 

[yeye5]

I'm guessing she is small...two or three DROPS should do....drop it on the beak so she can swallow it herself.

She is teeny tiny.
Drop it into her open beak? or onto her closed beak?

 

[Kiki]

ON to it...it will roll "into" it.

 

[yeye5]

It wasn't it difficult as I feared. She did drink several drops and some of course got on my hands. Doesn't matter as long as she got what she needs.
It may be my wishful thinking but she seemed to perk up immediately. Maybe she was also a bit dehydrated? (BCS meds couldn't work in a couple of minutes could they?)
It is oh-so-tempting to bring her inside! BUT dogs and chickens? Nope.
And every time she's inside, she then has to climatize, resocialize etc.
Not kidding but has anyone ever heard of a midget/dwarf chicken?

 

[Kiki]

Bantam chicken?

 

[yeye5]

No, should be normal size BR, she's just tiny.
I am very very worried right now. She took the 2nd drench dose but was more "fatigued" and droopy afterwards.
I gave her a box, large enough for her and several others but I turned the box on it's side so if the others stand on it they'll not stand on her. Pulled some grass to make it soft.
I hope and pray she can pull out of this. I suspect I'll have a better idea by morning.

 

[Kiki]

Her being teeny tiny is probably not a good thing.
She may have other "issues" too.
I am so sorry.
Hopefully she pulls through.

 

[yeye5]

@KikisGirls You have always been kind, informative and compassionate. I appreciate all of these qualities!
When I picked her, she was average size for the smaller 3 or 4 BR. I was going to pick the largest but was asked to wait a week or so. When I returned to pick up my chick, we both noted by size and comb development that the original I'd had my eye on looked more and more like a cockerel. I wanted a pullet (wanted to play with sex link breeding). My friend was loosing chicks for reasons unknown so I grabbed her and she came with me...rode home in my sports bra!
She was petite normal at the time. Then the other similar age chicks who hatched here grew and she stayed smaller to the point that now there's considerable size difference.
As I'm babbling all this it occurs to me that I should just put shoes on and go outside. I'll find out what's happened.

 

[Kiki]

@KikisGirls You have always been kind, informative and compassionate. I appreciate all of these qualities!
When I picked her, she was average size for the smaller 3 or 4 BR. I was going to pick the largest but was asked to wait a week or so. When I returned to pick up my chick, we both noted by size and comb development that the original I'd had my eye on looked more and more like a cockerel. I wanted a pullet (wanted to play with sex link breeding). My friend was loosing chicks for reasons unknown so I grabbed her and she came with me...rode home in my sports bra!
She was petite normal at the time. Then the other similar age chicks who hatched here grew and she stayed smaller to the point that now there's considerable size difference.
As I'm babbling all this it occurs to me that I should just put shoes on and go outside. I'll find out what's happened.

I'm here waiting for an update.