Hi Everyone, Hope you can help me. I have an 8 week old EE chick, Sweetpea, and she has an overbite very badly and she cannot eat dry chickstarter, so on the advice of a fellow BYC'er I m giving her a special Diet and though she is growing she is very slow, she is just a little larger than my 2 1/2 week old Salmon Fav. chicks, However she is a very strong chick and seems healthy otherwise, but the deal is this, I've been keeping her with her original brooder mates and taking her out and feeding her seperately,(I tryed to put her in with the Salmon Fav. babies but she would have none of it she screamed and cryed all the time and refused to eat ,and then when I put her back in with her buddies she was fine) which was fine and she was doing well, But her broodermates are 3 to 4 times larger than her and they went out to the coop yesterday morning, She is wayyyyy to small to go with them so I put her in with the Salmon Fav babies and all day yesterday she cryed and was flying and hopping up to the screen covering it all night and all day and again refused to eat, a few mins ago I took her out and she flew to her dinner table (my comp. Desk ) and was eating like she was starving to death. I held her and she went to sleep. I feel so quilty but not sure what to do for her.
I Guess my Questions are these.
1. Will she get used to being with the other chicks.
2. will she eat given enough time without being hand fed and in the brooder? Or will she starve herself to death. I heard stress can kill birds easily and that scares me.
3 Will she ever be able to go out to the coop and live with the other chicks with her disabilities?
Im beginning to think I didn't help her by helping her and it makes me very sad. She loves people and wants to be held all the time, doesn't really matter who holds her she just thinks everyone should hold her!
Oh and i did clip her beak back to the bloodline and it helped her some but still is too long on the top to pick up the tiny chick starter. Thanks for all the advice you can give, Sandy
I Guess my Questions are these.
1. Will she get used to being with the other chicks.
2. will she eat given enough time without being hand fed and in the brooder? Or will she starve herself to death. I heard stress can kill birds easily and that scares me.
3 Will she ever be able to go out to the coop and live with the other chicks with her disabilities?
Im beginning to think I didn't help her by helping her and it makes me very sad. She loves people and wants to be held all the time, doesn't really matter who holds her she just thinks everyone should hold her!
Oh and i did clip her beak back to the bloodline and it helped her some but still is too long on the top to pick up the tiny chick starter. Thanks for all the advice you can give, Sandy
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