Thanks Kathy. I am hoping for the best, but she just seems very lethargic... I have sugar water in one waterer and one waterer just plain water. She is in her own little area now with the heat lamp.
Everything I have ever read and been told has been 95 degrees for the first week and subtract 5 degrees from that each week. Thats what I did with my first flock. And right now all the other chicks aren't huddled together but sprawled out all over the brooder, even the travel mates of the chick...
The only reason why I include the part of being replacement chicks, is because the 3 I got today are in the same brooder as the order I got last week. Meyer Hatchery said that was no problem. Which I have read it shouldn't be a problem since they are a week apart. But also it is 95 degrees in...
OK so I have dipped her beak again in the water and feed. She took a drink but wasn't about eating. It did seem like it took her a little longer than usual for her to swallow. I also moved her to directly under the heat lamp holding her in my hand and she kept her eyes closed,then I put her down...
To be honest, I haven't been watching them constantly, but every time I have gone to the brooder for the past 4 hours (about 8 times) she is in one spot standing. So I don't know if she is going around and then just coming back to the same exact spot and standing there, or if she hasn't moved. (...
Hey all, I just received an order from meyer hatchery this morning, 1 of the 3 chicks, which is a partridge rock, has a very distended stomach and when I pick her (hopefully) up she keeps her eyes closed. She hasn't moved much in the past 4 hours, when I first put her in the brooder she did eat...