Please help me out! I have a 9 day old baby chick who has lost two friends in the last 24 hours. Both of the dying chicks were ok, then became weak with heads drooping forward, eyes closed. They would get up occasionally to drink, but nothing else. When they passed, it was awful. Pulling heads...
They have plenty of water and all the rest of them, save one, are in great shape. I am worried that she's blocked, but if I do anything for that, what if I am wrong and she's got runny poo? I mean, the poo on her belly must be coming from somewhere. Maybe I should do a quick video and post it or...
Yes, she's on chick starter. But as I sit here and watch her, she keeps lifting up her wings and maybe she's trying to poop ... oh no. That doesn't seem good. She stands against the bar on the chick feeder trough thing and uses it to hold herself up. I know the others flap a little when they poo...
I have a 6 day old chick who just seems to always have poo on her belly. I am assuming that her own poo is runny and it's just dripping out, but she also won't lay down like all of the others. If I've seen the poo stuck to her bum, I've used a warm water compress to gently get it off, but it...