Baby isn't doing good

[artsyrobin]

here is the chair i was thinking of

 

[PoultryPedia]

Maybe nutrition problems in the parents' diets have caused the leg problems???

My Poultry Podiatry page on the site linked in my sig below gives info on some nutrient deficiences that can cause leg problems.

I hope things get better with your chick. Struggles caring for little chicks can be so hard, & things are so many times hard to diagnose accurately.

 

[lswatson111304]

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Thank you for posting this. And the other thread, I'm reading through it now. I have him in a makeshift chair thing for now. I am hand feeding/watering him for now. I need to pick up yogurt and stuff.
I don't know HOW MUCH to feed him though. How much is sufficient. I tried raw egg yolk and he choked on it. So I put some cooked in with some water and just shook it up well till it was just a "thick water" and I've used a medicine dropper to give it to him. Its the only thing I can get him to take. I just don't know how much to give or how often.

 

[lswatson111304]

Wow, things just go from bad to worse, but he is still alive, and peeping away. I looked at his leg, and it looks torn. I don't know if somehow it happened when I was trying to splint him, or if it happened when he was trying to get around (though I'm not sure HOW he could have done that to himself). Its like the connective tissue between his body, and upper thigh/hip has seperated. He isn't bleeding, but it looks really bad and strange. I have some sports tape on him right now keeping his legs pressed up against his body so it can hopefully heal. Though I'm not sure it will. He is in a makeshift chick chair and I've been feeding him every so often. I just had to clean him up a bit because since he can't move, when I try to squirt a drop of food/water on his beak he turns and gets it on his eyes or head, or whatever and it started to dry on him. This is really hard, but seeing that thread with the different special needs chickens I have hope that if I Can keep this guy healthy internally, the physical external will follow.
I just ordered him some buddies from ideal with the hopes that he will be ok enough to join them soon. I pick them up wednesday and I'm praying that he lives till then. I hate that he is all alone. I'll have to be sure to make his chair a little more stable for when the chicks arrive since they won't (hopefully) be handicap like he is. I don't want them knocking him out of his chair.

 

[Ukiah]

Hows the baby doing?

 

[lswatson111304]

He didn't make it. He started to gasp for air yesterday and finally passed. Thank you for asking.

 

[Ukiah]

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Remember that it wasn't your fault.
Are you going to incubate more? Or wait?

 

[lswatson111304]

I just got a new incubator that needs a little tweaking. I also think I might have a broody, but i'm not sure how fast I need to get eggs under her. I am supposed to place an order for some more eggs on the 29th to be shipped but I'm worried that might be too long? I do plan to try again, whether under a broody or in my new bator.
I did order a few friends for the baby that didn't make it, I pick them up tomorrow afternoon at Ideal poultry.

 

[Ukiah]

Most put eggs underneath their broodies 2-3 full days after sitting. I would try and get them under her BY
the 10th day shes been sitting. However, a broody wont just up and quit sitting on the 21st day of incubation
if nothing hatches. They will usually sit on eggs until they have a chick, if the eggs are good. However, being
that it's winter, I wouldn't want her sitting even longer than she normally would as they lose alot of weight
while sitting on eggs, and really need to be eating more during winter.

 

[cmom]

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Sorry.

It's so hard to give up. I have a chick with a crooked leg and I have it fixed up like spraddle leg. I hope it straightens out. The chick is eating and drinking ok. I put a stuffed rabbit in with it in one of my brooder boxes. It cuddles up to it. I will take the splints off next week and see how it goes.