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    What to do with lone week old chick???

    Update: two new friends acquired, everyone doing quite well. Thanks for the help!
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    What to do with lone week old chick???

    Thanks for the feedback! As a newbie, it's so helpful to have extra eyes on our situation. Just located some week old chicks that I can get tomorrow...hang in there baby, your friends are on their way! With the older three, I eventually moved them to a larger, deeper, room temp set-up, which is...
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    What to do with lone week old chick???

    This is the best shot I could get of the brooder. It's 2'x1'x1.5' high, which I thought would be ok for three chicks? Temp reads 90. Baby chick is a week and change, got it last Friday with a few wing little feathers. I've started them all on DE (as of #1's decline since she'd been with a broody...
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    What to do with lone week old chick???

    Thanks for the replies so far. I hear you both saying to get more chicks. If I get more how do I know 1) that I'm not doing anything wrong that will lead to their demise, and 2) that this lone chick is healthy and won't make any new babies sick? We gave this one that's left a stuffed animal and...
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    What to do with lone week old chick???

    I'm new to chickens, and feel terrible after watching two baby chicks die this week. There is one left. I've read it's not good to have only one. But what should I do? I'm concerned that it may have been exposed to a disease or something if that's what did the other two in, so I'm hesitant to...
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