I joined this community to hopefully get some answers or advice for my problem. I have 6 button chicks that have hatched in the last 2 days, all are healthy and behave normally, all except 1.
One chick specifically is pacing back and forth along the sides of the brooder and often cries loudly as he does it. He's the only one that's doing it and none of the other chicks are interested in him. I worry about it because he's been pacing like this for about a day and only really stops when he wears himself out. Sometimes he acts normal and runs around like the others, but only for a short period of time. He has no interest in food or water when he paces and nothing seems to soothe him. We've picked him up, held him in a small blanket, tucked him into a blanket in hid brooder (which he enjoys when hes tired enough to sleep), let him run around outside the brooder (in case he wants out), everything we can think of. When he's not pacing he's crying, constantly.
This is my second batch of babies I've raised and I've never had this problem with chicks. However, I do have this problem with one of my adult quail. One of my male adults is a very nervous bird and paces constantly, sometimes crying but not very often. I've kept him with my other birds and hatched some of their eggs to test out my incubator, so it's possible the nervous adult is the father of this baby. If so, could that be an explanation? What should I do? What can I do? I don't want the chick to constantly be stressed and crying but nothing seems to help. I'll keep trying to find a way to soothe him but I'm running out of ideas. Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks!
One chick specifically is pacing back and forth along the sides of the brooder and often cries loudly as he does it. He's the only one that's doing it and none of the other chicks are interested in him. I worry about it because he's been pacing like this for about a day and only really stops when he wears himself out. Sometimes he acts normal and runs around like the others, but only for a short period of time. He has no interest in food or water when he paces and nothing seems to soothe him. We've picked him up, held him in a small blanket, tucked him into a blanket in hid brooder (which he enjoys when hes tired enough to sleep), let him run around outside the brooder (in case he wants out), everything we can think of. When he's not pacing he's crying, constantly.
This is my second batch of babies I've raised and I've never had this problem with chicks. However, I do have this problem with one of my adult quail. One of my male adults is a very nervous bird and paces constantly, sometimes crying but not very often. I've kept him with my other birds and hatched some of their eggs to test out my incubator, so it's possible the nervous adult is the father of this baby. If so, could that be an explanation? What should I do? What can I do? I don't want the chick to constantly be stressed and crying but nothing seems to help. I'll keep trying to find a way to soothe him but I'm running out of ideas. Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks!
