Day old chick with bad balence?

arrienwilliams

In the Brooder
5 Years
Jun 19, 2014
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Hi everyone! I have four, one week old silkie chicks and another day old chick that hatched yesterday morning by surprise! She/he is beautiful and will either turn out to be blue or black. She came out of the shell pretty quickly and strongly so I never thought there would be an issue with her. She's not eating or drinking yet, but they don't really need to until day 3 correct? She's VERY loud and peeps a lot when she's awake. However, she has really poor balance and has trouble standing/walking. Her feet/toes
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are straight and so are her legs, but she kind of leans to left when she's standing. She only stands still for a few seconds until she wobbles around and either catches herself or falls over. Sometimes she can't get up and just lays on her side. I can't keep her with the other chicks because if they just walk by her she falls over and they step on her :( It kind of seems like her head is too heavy for her body because when she wobbles around, her head is close to the ground. My other chicks took a few hours-half a day to learn how to walk correctly but this one is taking longer. Should I be worried?
 

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