Chick lethargic, was it grubs?

[Maqui25]

Hi, yesterday night a relative brought me an orphan chick she found, about a couple days old I guess, to take care of. It was very active yesterday, drinking and eating. I gave it 3 alive white grubs yesterday and put it to bed with heat source. This morning it's lethargic, doesn't open it's eyes, doesn't eat and barely drinks. There's 2 little black poops where it slept too. Sadly it looks like it won't make it. Was it the grubs? Maybe it was too much, or toxic or it got stuck. But my other chicks love them so I don't understand. It was so healthy yesterday.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Does it have any chick grit available? Baby chick feed has a little grit in it for digestion, but if you feed it anything other than that, it needs grit to digest it.

 

[Maqui25]

Does it have any chick grit available? Baby chick feed has a little grit in it for digestion, but if you feed it anything other than that, it needs grit to digest it.

It didn't but they're free range so moms usually take care of that, it should have had some left in their stomach, right? But still would that have killed it so fast? Unfortunately it died like 15 min after my post Also, mom wasn't dead, she appeared with her chickens, seems like they hid but this one got lost, that's when they found it the night before yesterday. Idk, if it had gotten hurt by a predator or gotten sick it wouldn't have deteriorated so fast or at least it would have appeared sick from before I got it. It's all so weird.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

DId you put it with your other chicks? How old are they? What was your heat source? Did it have a cool area to move to if it got too hot? Was it panting? Cheeping? It wouldn't get grit from the mother, they have to eat it themselves. What else did you feed it besides grubs? There's just so many possibilities it's impossible to say. I'm sorry it died.

 

[Maqui25]

DId you put it with your other chicks? How old are they? What was your heat source? Did it have a cool area to move to if it got too hot? Was it panting? Cheeping? It wouldn't get grit from the mother, they have to eat it themselves. What else did you feed it besides grubs? There's just so many possibilities it's impossible to say. I'm sorry it died.

Thank you No it was alone on a box with a heating pad on the side that never gets warmer that a hen's belly. I've done that before so I don't think it was that but I just found tapeworms on the poop of a chick I've been feeding grubs, uggggh maybe it was that, I'm gonna have to stop doing it even though they go crazy about them.