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Your baby chick was likely a goner before you even saw it. Some chicks hatch with birth defects but look normal. But by the time they experience the stress of being shipped from the hatchery, their incomplete bodies can't cope. They are marked for defeat when they hatch. It has nothing to do...

Sugar water, a few drops every hour will do more to revive a sickly chick than anything. Have you tried it yet? If not, what are you waiting for? If you have no syringe, wet a Q-tip in the sugar water and drip it on the side of the beak. The chick will suck it in. Keep doing it until the chick...

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Sugar water will warm her from the inside so do that for her. It also will elevate her glucose levels and give her energy so she will behave more normally and be more inclined to try to eat. It helps to teach new baby chicks to eat if you sprinkle their chick food on the floor of the brooder.

It may be a failure-to-thrive chick. But on the chance it's suffering shipping stress, heat a hand towel in the dryer so it's toasty warm but not burning hot and wrap the chick in it. Have a small dish of warm sugar water handy, a half cup water with half teaspoon sugar, and take a small syringe...