The chicks are now 5 weeks old and our little patient seems to be out of the woods - woo-hoo! I was very worried about her, but after the TLC indoors for almost a week, Vit. E and B-complex, we returned her to the group. She was still tucking her head and backing up to the wall, but she has...
She's had the vit. E and is eating and drinking on her own!
I got up every 3 hours last night to feed sugar water and rub her neck a little and gave the vit. E this morning after going to the store for some. I got B-complex also and will give her that next. She's still doing the shaky/tucking...
We are pretty new chicken folks, starting with five chicks last spring and they are all healthy, happy, egg-laying hens now.
We got five more a couple of weeks ago (they are 3 weeks old) and all seemed to be going well until tonight when I went to check the gals in the brooder. All looked fine...
Thank you! I erased my original message because I saw that I had posted in the wrong spot-whoops!
I should've just left it and edited...not thinking clearly...thanks for the advice!
Here's the OP:
I just joined up here after trying to find a solution to my chick problem, but couldn't find one...
Hi, we're pretty new chicken folks living in the Columbia Gorge in Washington state. I'm having an issue with a chick that has me pretty upset right now, so I'll have to come back and write more intro later. Heading over to the "problem" section...