sick chick

  1. Theerwinhomestead

    Sick baby chick

    Hey there, I have a baby chick who is almost a week old. She seems lethargic, her wings are droopy, she has this click when she breaths and I noticed a lump near her right breast.... any help? I’m afraid she is going to die. She just kind of stands and the other ones are running around her, if...
  2. FrostyWind

    URGENT!!! HELP!! Baby chicks is Gasping as though it can't breathe!?

    Please Help! One of my silkie Chick is Gasping stretching out it's neck and it's eyes are closed! I dontd knso what to do! It was fine just a half hour ago and when I came to check on it, it was Gasping, stretching it's neck out, closed eyes and Shaking it's head real hard, throwing itself...
  3. M

    Need help quick for sick chick!

    I know this is the introductory page, but I need help...I'll introduce myself later. I don't even know if this is where I'm supposed to post! I have an Australope chick who is listless, stands in one spot with her head down and wings drooping. Will peep a little if I pick her up, but does not...
  4. Aporter0190

    Sick chick?

    I have a silkie chick I got from tractor supply Monday and I noticed today it’s been standing in one spot head down. It doesn’t run when I pick it up but it does get lively and wants back on the ground. It doesn’t lay down either.
  5. Aporter0190

    Odd chick

    I have a silkie chick I got from tractor supply Monday and I noticed today it’s been standing in one spot head down. It doesn’t run when I pick it up but it does get lively and want back down on the ground.
  6. ChickenLover741

    Lethargic and Weak Chick, I don't know what to do!

    I've recently purchased 12 chicks and while 11 of them are healthy and lively, one of them (small ameraucana) has been noticibly lethargic and wouldn't move from her spot under the heat lamp. Since she was being stepped on, I isolated her in a separate tote and put some electrolyte and probiotic...
  7. K

    Exchequer Leghorn chick HALF the size of my other 6 chicks?! Due to size difference or crossbeak?

    Hi Everyone, I’m new to posting but have been reading your threads for weeks, preparing for my first flock of 8 chicks. One died in the mail, which was heartbreaking, and I’m not sure if I’m being hyper sensitive about the others out of fear of losing another. PLEASE- any advice you have would...
    • KatieAnnFrench
    • Thread
    • chick not eating chick not growing cross beak exchequer leghorn leghorn chickens mixed flock raising chick sick chick sleeping chick small chick
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  8. rascal66

    Help! Lethargic days old chick with infected looking naval

    Hello all, today I noticed one of my chicks I hatched late last week is very lethargic. I checked to find his abdomen coated in.. I dont know what. He seemed lethargic a few days ago, but after a nap he was up and eating and drinking, and I noticed the naval area had a scab looking thing. I...
  9. AMGoodner

    Sick Chick Please HELP

    I have a baby chick about 3 weeks old. She won't eat or drink unless we are syringe feeding her. She is very lethargic. I have give her electrolytes with plain yogurt and water. She started showing signs of improving and then took a turn down. What do I do, this is my first time raising chicks?
  10. Lady_Bat

    HELP!!!! I think our Dorking chick is dying right now

    First time chicken parents, we're used to having quail. We got a mixed flock (1 White Leghorn, 1 Cream Legbar, 1 Black Copper Maran, 1 Astralorp, 1 Speckled Sussex, 1 Barred Plymouth Rock, 1 Easter Egger, 1 Blue Easter Egger, 1 Light Brahma, 1 Silver Gray Dorking, 1 Buff Orphinton, 1...
  11. Rammy

    Baby chick lethargic

    I got some baby chicks from Ideal Thursday. They were all doing good even this morning when I cleaned thier brooder. I left forva couple hours and when I came back, one of the either Production Blacks, or my Jerset Giants is just laying there. Is there anything I can do? They look to be about a...
  12. B

    PLEASE HELP!! Sick Silkie chick!!

    PLEASE HELP!! :hit:hit:hit My little blue silkie Ethel is sick!!! She’s about a month and a week old, and she’s been perfectly healthy up to now. Always the first to the food bowl. Today, I noticed a weird sound coming from the brooder. A high pitched peep I’d never heard out of any of my...
  13. orangesplash

    Why do chicks breathe heavily & open and close their mouths?

    my 2.5 week old polish chick is opening and closing its mouth. Is this a good medicine regime? Tylan-oral Multivitamin Paracetamol Or Amoxicillin or any other antibiotic? I’m really worried.
  14. S

    My chick is sick, how can I help her?

    recently we hatched chicks via incubator and also under a mother chicken. Since then we have put them all together in the one pen and there has been no issues. About a week ago one of the chicks wasn’t walking so we took her out and had her in a separate cage. We read that she may have a...
  15. A

    Please help my baby chick is sick

    Hi, I'm new to the chicken world I've not had much time or experience at it but, please can someone help me! I have a sick baby chick, she's about 2weeks old, i actually saved her. some dogs had killed her mother and siblings , she was hidden underneath a bucket when we found her so I don't...
  16. KikiDeAnime

    What Do I Treat Them All With?

    One of our four Silkie chicks may be sick but I'm not sure what s/he may be sick with. I can't separate them so I need to give them all the same thing in case it spread to them. I brought Small Fry out to look her/him over as I noticed how s/he was acting. Small Fry is 4-5 weeks old while the...
  17. Roger98

    Chick has pasty butt and is weak

    I just ordered 20 chicks and all of them are doing great except for one who I've just noticed now had a very plugged up rear end with diarrhea. I soaked her butt well but now she's so weak she doesn't want to stand. She won't stop peeping. I don't know if she's in pain and I'm not sure what to...
  18. wyancrazy

    Chick has choked on something and tongue has slipped down the throat...

    This wee chick is 18 days old and eating and drinking fine up until today when it pecked at something then ran backwards as if to dislodge something from it's beak. Coughed or sneezed a few times and I think gave itself quite a fright. Afterwards and hours later the chick is breathing with beak...
  19. E

    Lethargic baby chick, what to do?

    Hello! I recently bought 4 chickens recently, two commercial yellow chicks and two hybrid chicks (seem to be smaller). I have unfortunately have already lost one hybrid chick, and now I have noticed the other, bigger one, seems to be looking quite lethargic. I'm not too well versed in what to do...
  20. Kaidorke

    How to care for exhausted chick

    hi there, first time incubating and hatching. about 3 maybe 4 hours ago i had to hatch a chick, he was on day 23 and the membrane had turned yellow/brown so it started to dry out and also stick to him. Hes now fluffed up but still has some goo on him here and there. He was very exhausted, i was...
    • Kaidorke
    • Thread
    • advice advice needed curled foot emergency care exhuastion hatching help incubated chicks newly hatched sick chick
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
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