am I wasting my time/I need more help new issue

[tamelroy]

I just got chicks in yesterday, and stupid me forgot how hot it gets in the apartment, I should have shut their light off and I forgot. Now I have 5 of them that are real weak. I am giving electolytes and stuff. But they are the runts too. So I dunno of it was me or they are just too weak to begin with.

I have seen on here where a lot say let mother nature take its cours. Have any of you nursed back a weak chick.

I hope this makes sense, I haven't slept much last night trying to get them to come around.

TIA

Tracy

I wrote a couple of posts down and update about chicks neck. Please if you have any ideas I could use them right now. I also put pictures here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3830526#p3830526


Thank you!!

 

[Backyard Hencam]

You should give them a chance to come around. You may loose some but you'd be surprised how a chick can come back from an accident or injury and be a fine hen or rooster. Keep hydrating them and Mother Nature will take her course whether you like it or not. Good luck!

 

[Shannon's Chix]

Mistakes happen.

Besides, you never know, I lost 3 chicks in week 1 my very first time (and last) I had shipped chicks! Are they taking the electrolyte water? If not you can use a dropper to help it along. I'm not really sure, hopefully someone else can help more! I wonder if anyone ever dipped a chick in cool water for overheating??? I don't think you should do it I just wondered??? Anyone?

 

[NeeleysAVLChicks]

How hot does it get in your apartment? If you just got them, they should be kept around 95 degrees, sometimes a little less, but right around there. I can't imagine it gets that hot in your apartment? They could just be weak, try giving them a little hardboiled or scrambled eggs and maybe a little plain yogurt mixed in with their starter crumbles. I give my babies Poly-Vi-Sol (WITHOUT Iron) baby soluble vitamins (Walmart or a drug store for about $7) just a drop or two on the side of their beaks for a couple days will help give them a jump start.

Watch your girls, if they are spread out evening around the brooder, the temp is good. If they huddle too close or too far from the heat lamp, they are either too cold or too hot.

 

[tamelroy]

Quote:
How hot does it get in your apartment?

Yesterday I would say the apartment alone was about 90 degrees, plus the light on them.
And I have no heat on in the apartment.

I never did the poly-vi-sol, when hubby gets back from work I will get that. I do have the vitamans and electolyes.

Plus I am thinking it is not all me now anyway. I have a chick that her head actually goes backwards and then she falls. I think it is her nerves or maybe her neck, because her neck bone seems to long to me. She doesn't seem to be in pain, right now I am trying to find something to hold her in place and I will give her a couple of days to see what happens. If you have any ideas on this one I could really use them right now.

 

[tamelroy]

Alright guys I don't think I did it, something is really wrong with some. One of them I think the head looked swollen and it had blood in it eye. That one died any way, but I am wondering it is where I got the birds there is just something wrong in general. I have the one with the neck problem, 1 ee just doesn't want to move, but I know she could turn around and a couple of cornish x that may pass as well.

After my other order comes in I swear I am never gonna order another bird again, this is too heartbreaking for me.

I can handle a couple but this is crazy. I know I am doing everything else right, God I hatched eggs last year and the year before I was getting them in the TS. And it was hotter the time they came along. The more I calmed down I was thinking I did this in the dead of the summer, with fans running but still. They just moved away from the light if it was too much.
Thanks everyone for your help I really appreciate it. I am so happy to be part of the BYC family.

Tracy

 

[chickerdoodle]

Sorry about your chicks--so devastating. I hope your last ones improve.