Thanks for the advice, I have ensured that the one remaining chick now has a little shelter to shade her. She seems very active and happy. Why little Joan of Arc (we felt she needed a strong name after what she had been through) was able to survive, I just don't know. Thanks for all of your help.
No there isn't really, I thought that they always required the lamp and I tried to set it at a height that gives them the right amount of heat. It had also been set up that way for a week and a few days, if it were due to overheating wouldn't it happen quicker? I scrambled for answers when I...
Only one of my baby chicks survived the night last night. I came home and they all seemed fine, I replaced their water and an hour later I came back in to check on them and 3 were dead in the sawdust under the heat lamp. Then in a matter of thirty minutes 2 of the remaining three got very slow...