My chick was the same way! i would hold her and play wither her for hours! that wasn't enough! no Sir. when i put her in the brooder and went to be! all i heard was "Peep Peep Peep" until she screamed herself to sleep! i think its all that vitamin intake... my serama (like your black and white one: i think their moms name was Tina) was in the grass the day after she hatched! (with me close by of course). all they need is a couple drops of yogurt 2wice a week for 4 weeks! I'm currently hatching out more of charlies eggs! and my Hen Penny laid her first egg Friday! at 4 and a Quarter months old! i love the mystery snails because of that elephant trunk! i think its the funniest thing! as far as the chicks, just ease off the vitamins for a while and like i said, plain (organic) Yogurt, and maybe some raspberry or black berry seed (with pulp around them) for antioxidants! Good luck! hope you enjoy those sweat hearts!I have bad news guys... The youngest two chicks (one of which was the one that pipped in the middle of the shell and I had to assist) didn't make it through the night last night. They had been very sluggish for the past couple days, very sleepy, but would cry all night over seemingly nothing. The warmest point of the brooder was at 95f, no one was too hot or too cold, their water has sav-a-chick added, and the two youngest were given a vitamin drop each morning and each evening when I started to notice them kind of go downhill. I also observed them eating and drinking during the first two days they were in the brooder. I couldn't find anything physically wrong with them, they just sort of.. started to waste away as they hit three days old. I wish there was something more I could have done for them, but I couldn't find a cause for their malaise. I mourned for them but.. maybe they just weren't meant to make it. Mother nature is harsh sometimes...
Despite the loss, the eldest two chicks are absolutely flourishing! They will be a week old at midnight tonight, and today they were taken outside for the first time. They didn't get to play in the grass yet, but they sat in my lap and took in the sights and sounds. Then they promptly learned they could climb up to my shoulder while I was sitting with them, and enjoyed the view from up there. My mother took it as a good opportunity to get better with the camera on her iPhone. The black and white chick's name is Flak. Don't have a name for the lighter colored one yet though. And don't mind me, I was in my pajamas.
Unrelated, Larps: Your guppies are beautiful! Also mystery snail babies!!I have a serious soft spot in my heart for mystery snails. I just love the buggers.
I'm glad to hear 2 are doing well though! Were you feeding them vitamins because they weren't thriving? It sounds like you might have been over doing it??? But I don't know what kind of vitamins you fed, so I don't know if that's the case??
