Hi everyone,
One of our hens had a clutch of eggs recently but she abandoned them after only one hatched, leaving the rest of the eggs to go cold. I heard some weak cheeping from one and brought it inside to keep warm since we had no other brooding hens at the time and she wouldnt take it back as she was already running around with her chick. The egg has hatched since and after keeping it inside for one night to make sure it would live, I placed it under a hen who was sitting on some eggs. I went to check multiple times during the day and it was fine but I looked again when I went to feed them and the chick was lying by itself, it had gone cold but not dead so we warmed it up inside and it actually survived. We have a heat pad in a box with some cloths that its sleeping in right now since there are no hens to take it on, but it so far hasnt been eating anything and we've had to make it drink with a medicine syringe. I'm currently giving it a mollasses and water mix but i know that wont work for long. I've also tried showing it how to eat by tapping my finger onto the ground near some food but it kind of just bumps its closed beak against it and then goes back to sleep. The chick is about 3 days old and I think it has spraddle leg so I've tried doing the tape method to keep its legs together to see if they'll come better? For a few minutes it was breating heavily and making a clicking noise but it calmed down quickly after, is this something I should be worrying about? If anyone has any advice on what we should do with the baby it would be gladly appreciated!
One of our hens had a clutch of eggs recently but she abandoned them after only one hatched, leaving the rest of the eggs to go cold. I heard some weak cheeping from one and brought it inside to keep warm since we had no other brooding hens at the time and she wouldnt take it back as she was already running around with her chick. The egg has hatched since and after keeping it inside for one night to make sure it would live, I placed it under a hen who was sitting on some eggs. I went to check multiple times during the day and it was fine but I looked again when I went to feed them and the chick was lying by itself, it had gone cold but not dead so we warmed it up inside and it actually survived. We have a heat pad in a box with some cloths that its sleeping in right now since there are no hens to take it on, but it so far hasnt been eating anything and we've had to make it drink with a medicine syringe. I'm currently giving it a mollasses and water mix but i know that wont work for long. I've also tried showing it how to eat by tapping my finger onto the ground near some food but it kind of just bumps its closed beak against it and then goes back to sleep. The chick is about 3 days old and I think it has spraddle leg so I've tried doing the tape method to keep its legs together to see if they'll come better? For a few minutes it was breating heavily and making a clicking noise but it calmed down quickly after, is this something I should be worrying about? If anyone has any advice on what we should do with the baby it would be gladly appreciated!
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He/she sounds like he's/she's weak and possibly sick, so make sure to get him/her chick starter feed quickly
You did what you could. 
