Lokibinian
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Hi, I'm new to this website, but my female blue silkie chick, just barely two days old, passed away today at approx. 12:00 am. 
I do not know what caused this. I got her with 9 other chicks from My Pet Chicken, all different breeds, all female, except for a buff silkie male. At first, I suspected she might have gotten trampled by the others, but the other silkie was perfectly fine. Her leg was skewed outwards. I thought it was spraddle leg, so I used a band-aid and stuck them together. She couldn't walk and ended up falling over every time she tried. She didn't eat anything, or drink, and I separated her from the rest, set up a separate heat lamp, and placed her in a separate brooder. She still didn't eat or drink, and suddenly, it looked like she was dead. I picked her up, and she flopped around, boneless. She was barely alive, and I fed her a crumble mash and water with a dropper, and she ate and drank a lot. She went to sleep. I fed and gave her water every hour or so, and she looked like she was recovering. She was stumbling around, eating from the syringe fine, but her condition deteriorated rapidly at 12:00 am, and her breathing was rapid. She threw up a bit of water. Slowly, she stopped breathing altogether. I have no idea what sort of disease this was. It's definitely not Marek's, because she was able to stand and walk for a bit, her legs were not paralyzed, just extremely weak. There were no other symptoms, either. I've seen pictures of chickens with Marek's and she did not resemble them at all. It's not spraddle leg, either, because it was not both legs that were sprawled out, just one, and she could walk, albeit very awkwardly and uncomfortably. If it was spraddle leg, she would not have died, because I fed her and gave her water regularly. So can anybody tell me what caused this problem?
I do not know what caused this. I got her with 9 other chicks from My Pet Chicken, all different breeds, all female, except for a buff silkie male. At first, I suspected she might have gotten trampled by the others, but the other silkie was perfectly fine. Her leg was skewed outwards. I thought it was spraddle leg, so I used a band-aid and stuck them together. She couldn't walk and ended up falling over every time she tried. She didn't eat anything, or drink, and I separated her from the rest, set up a separate heat lamp, and placed her in a separate brooder. She still didn't eat or drink, and suddenly, it looked like she was dead. I picked her up, and she flopped around, boneless. She was barely alive, and I fed her a crumble mash and water with a dropper, and she ate and drank a lot. She went to sleep. I fed and gave her water every hour or so, and she looked like she was recovering. She was stumbling around, eating from the syringe fine, but her condition deteriorated rapidly at 12:00 am, and her breathing was rapid. She threw up a bit of water. Slowly, she stopped breathing altogether. I have no idea what sort of disease this was. It's definitely not Marek's, because she was able to stand and walk for a bit, her legs were not paralyzed, just extremely weak. There were no other symptoms, either. I've seen pictures of chickens with Marek's and she did not resemble them at all. It's not spraddle leg, either, because it was not both legs that were sprawled out, just one, and she could walk, albeit very awkwardly and uncomfortably. If it was spraddle leg, she would not have died, because I fed her and gave her water regularly. So can anybody tell me what caused this problem?
i would do a USPS insurance claim
