Chicken won't walk

[strangeanimal]

Regardless of vitamin, I agree she needs calories or will likely pass before long.

Honestly, I might cull.

Simple electrolyte recipe is... 2 cups warm water, 2 tbs brown sugar, 1/2 tsp each salt and baking soda. plus your vitamins.

Improvise and add that stuff to your water unless it is already one of those mixes.

If I were going to try saving, I would give pure egg yolk, raw right away (not cold)... though it would be from my own flock and not store bought eggs.

egg !!!! seperate that yolk from the white and mash it up asap ! try to get it this in to that chick because its close to death ... if it will survive at all , because do prepare , this chick was already weaker than another , it needed help to get out of the egg which already says a lot , had chicks like that too ! all died ! second hatch was the same , only one chick got out of the shell itself and survived now ...
If not for an eggyolk , mashed banana with mixed oat (fine) , I hope he or she will manage !

 

[strangeanimal]

sorry , replied to fast , sorry you lost this one but indeed , this was for the best , sorry ...

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Update,
The chick past away this afternoon.
Probably for the best.
Tried feeding it (liquid) because it still had not opened its eyes.
Then today when I went to give it some vitamins it was breathing faster then normal and salivating. Not a good sign, so I figured it wouldn't be long.
In the future when they are this young what is the best way to cull?
With our older birds we cut the throat and bleed them out, but with the tiny ones.. I think our knife would take the head right off and I would rather not do that.

Sorry for your loss.

I have not yet culled a chick that young as I always try to let them survive. What a good learning experience though.. thank you for sharing. Definitely got ideas of what to do different if there is a next time like that... Like assisting sooner IF I am going to assist.

I have culled slightly older chicks and made a homemade cone out of a 2 liter, but will downsize to a water battle if I need to. This way keeps it on par with what I am familiar and LESS uncomfortable with. If I took the head completely off (usually don't), I would drop it in the can and walk away.. same way I walk away after I get the cockerels draining well so I don't have to hear them jerking around. I use a gal vinegar bottle currently.

When I volunteered at the zoo rehab, we fed out a lot of dead day old chicks (males from hatchery which they tossed inside a plastic bag and frozen. One found alive got to stay and become known as Lucky). And the chicks that needed to be cut smaller for certain animals, we did so with a pair of scissors.

 

[strangeanimal]

such tiny is indeed difficult to cull '' proper " oh and about those who think the freezer ?? You are wrong about that one because that only applies to COLDBLOODED animals / exotiques ! they do not feel it and fall asleep , warmblood DOES feel this and followed by a sleep aka coma

 

[shannon101]

Thanks everyone! I went through one of my raising chicken books and it said to not help chickens out of the egg. It's a genetic thing and it means it's a weaker chicken and it can pass that weakness onto its offspring. We will no longer be helping chicks that need assistance.