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    Mama with week-old chicks adopting day-old chick?

    What should I do? The last batch I hatched had a very lonely chick bacause all of its siblings didn't survive. It would chirp all night regardless of mirrors whatnot. I also did not have success integrating that lonely chick into the flock. Poor chick gets bullied and tries to sneak out of...
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    Mama with week-old chicks adopting day-old chick?

    I started incubating eggs last month and 2 hatched a week ago. A week after the incubation started one hen, Saffron, got broody (she has mothered chicks before) so we decided to let Saffron adopt them. We also gave her a couple of eggs just to keep her broody. The adoption process was...
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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    Baby Chick with Umbilical Hernia...what to do?

    Can anybody identify this? It’s few other siblings died from yolk sac infection (I believe) The chick is 6 days old, eating and drinking great, and has lots of strength. It hatched with wry neck but is improving and progressing. Should I treat this?
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    week old chicks dying one by one

    Yes ma’am. Here it is https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/5-days-old-chicks-dying-one-after-another.1651695/
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    5 days old chicks dying one after another

    The one I’m worried about is the only bantam, which is the last “healthy” one. I do feel like the baby is just pecking on the food and eating less than they should. Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll make some mash for them as they seem to really like it with yolk :jumpy Maybe I should start a...
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    Crocheters Thread

    crocheter here! >< any chicken crichet ideas?
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    5 days old chicks dying one after another

    This one does have trouble standing still or walking straight though, but it was pretty active this morning so I guess as it gets older it’ll be fine (?
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    5 days old chicks dying one after another

    92 degrees. They don’t seem to huddle together. No pasty butt. This yellow one does chirp LOUD when it steps into the water. ( Therefore I have changed the waterer into one they can’t get themselves wet)
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    5 days old chicks dying one after another

    Still breathing, but according to experience it’s not gonna last. I think it just got up to drink water but now it’s back. It looks small cuz it’s a bantam.
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    5 days old chicks dying one after another

    I did find a thread with similar symptoms but I decided to start my own thread since that thread is 9 years old.
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    5 days old chicks dying one after another

    I incubated the chicks. 5 hatched out of 13. Three “healthy” ones, one has splayed legs, another has wry neck. The “healthy” ones have been eating in the start and drinking normal. Then about 2-days old one chick stopped eating/drinking and slept a lot in a corner. The next morning the chick...
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    EMERGENCY! 2-days old chick has splayed legs and bruised

    Thanks for all your replies. The little chick did die today after struggling for 5 days. RIP.
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    week old chicks dying one by one

    HELP!!! I have the same problem too. I have lost three so far. They’ve been sleeping a lot before dying. Eating normal, drinking normal. Then suddenly stop eating and drinking, then they die.
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    EMERGENCY! 2-days old chick has splayed legs and bruised

    Do normal electrolytes work?
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    EMERGENCY! 2-days old chick has splayed legs and bruised

    I'll do that. How about the bruise? Do you think it'll hurt the chick if I try to make a brace? Thank you!
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