I'm happy to say that our little chick appears completely back to normal! She's running around and "playing" with the other chicks and seems fiesty as ever. For the yeast infection the vet gave us Panacur to administer once a day for three days. And for potential worms she gave us Fluconazole...
My little Ameraucana made it through the night but I decided to take her to the vet today because she was still doing this weird swallowing thing. The vet took a sample of the liquid in her crop and found a lot of yeast. So she save us some antibiotics to kill the yeast. In addition the...
Thanks thndrdancr. Last weekend I let them outside in their run during the warm part of the day. The area they were on was dry and wouldn't have had any earth worms. I saw them all "taste" an earwig but no one ate it. They may have eaten something else.
As I was feeding her again I tried...
Thanks to both of you! I tried to mix some yogurt with her chick feed but she didn't go for it . the other chicks tried it out though. So I went to the pet food store and bought a syringe and some baby bird formula and ended up force feeding her. I actually mixed the formula with a little...
Hi Everyone,
I'm a newbie and this is my first post. We got our 4 chicks 17 days ago. All 4 of them were very healthy until yesterday. One of the chicks appears to be sleepy. She stands off by herself and her eyes kind of squint closed then she opens then up again. She's not moving...