2 day old chick won't move and stands still in 1 spot breathing hard.

[JDChickChat]

Bad update this morning, I woke up and heard the chicks chirping and running fast in the brooder freaking out being really loud and I found her convulsing and she is gone now..
I picked her up and held her till she took her last breath and went limp. I inspected her afterwards and found a hole about the size of a dried pepper corn under her vent that looked pretty bad, I guess the other chicks injured her to a point of no recovery and she got an infection or maybe something else. I don't know. but she is gone now.

I'm so sorry. Sending lots of love!

 

[Eggcessive]

So sorry for your loss.

 

[Homesteadermomma6382]

I been giving her Nutri Drench but Shes not responding to it, This morning shes improving and NOT breathing hard, but she still will not walk around. i did get her to eat food and drink, and when i do get her to walk shes limping a small bit. I think she got injured by the other chicks. I'll keep updating my post.

dealing with full grown chickens = EZ
dealing with baby chicks = nerve racking,
drives me crazy, why the hell do we put ourselves through it? lol

I have asked myself this question so many times!!! And yet I just keep doing it. Cant help it. I just love being a chicken mamma. I had 2 sick chicks presenting with similar symptoms. One about 5 days after the other. Both were smaller than their sisters. I think maybe thats why they got sick when the others didnt. Unfortunately I lost them both. I treated the other 13 with corid and have had no more sick babies.

 

[frostic]

Thank you everyone for your support. I'm having the worst week ever. but i'll be ok eventually.
I don't think i can go get another chick. i don't want to lose another one. the other 2 chicks are now seperate so they don't kill each other. they can still see each other from opposite sides of chicken fence but i got to do it till they stop being so aggressive. the eastyer egger is being really mean to my buff so i made the choice to keep them apart till they are atleast feathered.

 

[Kiki]

Do you have a thermometer under that red light?

 

[Homesteadermomma6382]

Being too warm can make them aggressive

 

[frostic]

Do you have a thermometer under that red light?

yes. under the light its 92 and on the other side of the brooder its 94. its odd the red lamp don't seem to get it to 95, there is no drafts either. i don't know why. i guess the light is crap. it says its 250w but not getting a full 95 degrees.

 

[frostic]

Being too warm can make them aggressive

the brooder is 2ft by 2ft by 1foot tall i angled it so its not too hot but if i try to adjust it more it touches the wood and gets a bit scary they will shake it and break the glass. I don't got a long cord and it says not to use on an extention cord. my setup worked for my first flock. its a new bulb but just can't seem to get it at 95 but one side is 94 and under the lamp 92 so there is a range

 

[Homesteadermomma6382]

If they arent trying to huddle they aren't cold. Ive never had 2 day old chicks get aggressive.

 

[frostic]

yea my first flock was fine. they did get aggressive once they was 6 weeks and i put them outside. It only seems to be the easter egger that is being aggressive, it seems to attack my fingers when i reach in. the other one runs from me. I have 2 brooders and a coop/run. the chick brooder is 2ft x 2ft x 1 ft, the next one is a 5ft by 5ft cube cage for when they get bigger and need more space, then the coop is 8ft by 6ft by 12ft with a quarter acre run. my whole backyard is fenced in because the VND quarantine we had for the last 2 years in so cal. i didn't want them to come kill my chickies