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very Sick 4 week old chicken

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Posted by phil on October 13, 2009 at 20:30:36:
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Found one of the baby chooks really sick this morning. Very lethargic and unable to move more than a step. Checked the crop and it had plenty of food. I fed it some more and it hardly showed any interest pecking just a few grains and sitting down whilst the others went into a frenzy.

I isolated it and kept it warm. It did a perfectly normal dropping.

12 hours later much weaker. Crop still very full of wheat (or small rocks). These chooks are free ranging and get a handful of wheat at the start and another at the end of each day. I dont know if this one has eaten something poisonos or a spider etc that could do this or is it constipated. Waiting for more droppings, but only been in a box for an hour and nothing so far. It is one of nine. The others are very healthy.

I know it unlikely to survive the night so i took a keflex (antibiotic) tablet from my medicine cabinet and diluted it a 1000 times and made a bird strength dropper dose. I based this on the chickens weight of 108.7 grams. I gave it a dose and some water and will follow it up with some glucose water to help get it through the night. Its currently indoors in a heated brooder box.

Any ideas or help much appreciated. This bird is not drinking and i gave it 1ml of water with a syringe but i dont know how much to give it in mls and how often. I dont want to over do it and have the bird drown if it regurgitates.

Thanks Phil.

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