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Corrisionworrision
Chirping
- Jul 16, 2024
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He's only a few days old and I hatched him myself from an incubator, I use a red light bulb for the heat lamp, on one end of the cage it's 100f but on the other side it's room temp around 74f so he's not to hot or cold. Just today he started drinking alot and eating a little so I think he's just whineyDo you see him eat regularly? Poop looks relatively normal, (I'm not seeing bright green although it is hard to tell) especially if he's drinking alot. Some of mine looked like that when they were tiny. Did you hatch him from an incubator yourself? Or is he from a hatchery? I'd check the temperature specifically with a cheap thermometer in the brooder. Is your light/lamp a red bulb or bright white light? I put my Izzy in a dark tub with a fuzzy pad for 10 minutes ( low heating pad on TUB or a microwaved heat pad but you HAVE to keep a thermometer to make sure it's not too hot/cold ). He may have trouble sleeping if brooder light is too bright and/or he's too hot. I'll check into the feed/comparison. I know they generally get all they need (foodwise) from the absorbed yolk/egg first 2/ 3 days after hatch. Also had a fussy (ornery) chick "Ruby" at 1 week. I covered with a flannel baby receiving blanket so her eyes were covered and layed her on my belly. She calmed down after 5/10 minutes. I hope your baby isn't sick and is just "colicky". (My daughter was colicky! 40 years later she's wonderful).