About to lose MY MIND!!!!

[slyfoxpeeps]

I hatched out one that did that, who would have thought that something that small could make a noise that went straight to your spine?!!! I put it down my shirt in between the girls and let it sit there for as long as I could stand it, it was quiet until I took it out..... But finially it slowly got quietier.. over a few days,Thank god.....

Sly

 

[Smartie_Pants]

Ducks are often like this during their first couple of weeks. What realy helps with them is putting a mirror in their brooder. They think it is another chick/duckling and snuggle up next to the mirror. Its a little better than a stuffed animal because it actually "moves" and "eats" and everything the little one does itself. Maybe you could try that? Try to make the mirror big enough that it reflects the whole chick while its standing.

 

[Blisschick]

Unfortunately, I don't have any kind of stuffed animal to put in with it. I've tried the "tucking it away" thing, but it's not buying that. I see it pecking at the food, and I have seen it drinking, but it doesn't seem to have anything in it's crop now. I'm seriously beginning to think it has an internal problem.

 

[slyfoxpeeps]

Blilsschick, I was begining to think the same about the chick I had, I never saw it eat, and I was actually starting to hope it would just die already, but like I said after a few days I started noticing that the brooder was just the normal chirping from all the chicks. So maybe with some time he'll quiet down.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Someone yesterday suggested putting a feather duster in with the babies. I think they suspended it from the top of the brooder so that the babies could snuggle under it like they do under mama. Maybe that would help?
Dunno. Sorry she's making you crazy!

 

[kelliepulido]

I have had 2 from my last hatch like that they ended up passing away..I noticed they peeped nonstop and they didn't gain any wght.I tried vit.gtts,force feeding and h20 along the beak both eventually would just stand up and sleep then they both died.The 1st hatch I had 1 that did that too and she had a severe spraddle leg issue ended up culling her.The other chick out of that batch was the only other one that made it so I think that one chirped out of lonelyness,I put in a mirror and a knit hat which stopped the chirping.

 

[Bandana]

The baby needs vitamins and electrolytes. Good luck.

 

[poupoule]

I had the same problem with one of my chick, especially when his companion died. It used to come to me and jumped on my hand as soon I put it in the brooder. I reintroduce a few other chicks, but it still was noise...only for a few more days!! It's quiet now, but still friendly

 

[Toast n Jelly]

Have you checked it for poop clogging it's bum?

 

[needmorechickens!]

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