2 day old baby silkie chick wont eat

[Bryce Thomas]

I grind up the food to where it's powder and he will run over and look with intense curiosity then still not even peck. I think he was supposed to hatch a day and a half ago so that means he used up his yolk for at least a day and a half now. He is so small he cant even eat starter crumble, I have to grind down the crumble. He is not showing signs of malnutrition but I'm afraid I'm going to wake up tomorrow to him dead. Please help. He also wont drink any water and yes I have pushed his beak into the water multiple times already

 

[azygous]

A two day old chick will not have much of an appetite. Maybe grinding the feed into a fine powder has made it more difficult for the chick to pick it up.

What I do to interest new baby chicks in eating is to sprinkle some of the crumbles over the brooder floor. It's an instinctive reflex for new chicks to search the ground for food. They are much more interested in the crumbles on the floor that in a feeder at first.

If the chick still isn't interested in the chick feed not ground up into a fine powder, mince up very fine some hard boiled egg and sprinkle that on the floor. I would bet that will trigger interest in eating.

 

[Bryce Thomas]

A two day old chick will not have much of an appetite. Maybe grinding the feed into a fine powder has made it more difficult for the chick to pick it up.

What I do to interest new baby chicks in eating is to sprinkle some of the crumbles over the brooder floor. It's an instinctive reflex for new chicks to search the ground for food. They are much more interested in the crumbles on the floor that in a feeder at first.

If the chick still isn't interested in the chick feed not ground up into a fine powder, mince up very fine some hard boiled egg and sprinkle that on the floor. I would bet that will trigger interest in eating.

Thank you so much. I ground up some crumble into a fine powder and made it a little wet and it made it much easier for her to eat it. It didn't eat a whole lot but it ate something.

 

[Bryce Thomas]

Wait should I be worried that she isn't drinking either? My dad who is a nurse saw her poop so she must be at least eating something, but I know dehydration kills quick, her poop is mushy like normal chicken poop and not runny, and she is not showing signs of dehydration but I'm afraid she wont drink water at all and she will be dead when I wake up in the morning

Also she keeps on sleeping, is that normal?

 

[TOR]

new chicks in my experience like to sleep. They have moments of activity then rest. I assume you have water in the brooder is it possible it is drinking when your not watching?
Dip the chicks beak in the water and show here where its at.