Day old chick with bend neck going in circles and tumbling :(

[hurricanearran]

At the end of day two and the chick has improved to the point where I really have to look to find her. She has an abnormally big head and frankly, seems a little "slow" but she's eating, drinking, playing. She's holding her head almost upright but still highly uncoordinated and just doesn't see all there. I have high hopes for her recovery.

 

[scoopy82]

Awesome to hear she has improved

You must be doing something right!

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

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I call these chicks "dummy" chicks. We get them in foals every now and then. As long as you have seen it eat and drink plenty, it will probably be OK. I've had 2 in the past that never did eat or drink and stood the way you describe. They both died by day 5.

 

[sonjab314]

hurricanearran, I'm so glad your chick is doing better. Did you give it the vitamins or did she improve on her own?

 

[hurricanearran]

The chick is doing incredibly well! A friend named her "Kinkles" (due the the kink in her neck).

I dissolved the "Electrolyte Plus" in their water over the last two days so whether this helped or not, I'll never know. She's been eating and drinking plenty and is probably one of the most active of the chicks of the lot. She actually really likes "hanging out by the water cooler".

She was forth chick to hatch of 21, but I recall how unwell she seemed when she hatched. I'm really glad I didn't impulsively "off" her later that day.

Thanks for all the advice and mostly for giving me hope that she may recover. She's made it 3-1/2 day so here's hoping. Finger's crossed.

It was our first attempt at incubating. We put in 26 eggs and after candling on day 8, ruled that 4 of them were infertile and removed them. Of the remaining 22, only one didn't hatch and when we broke it open, there was nothing in it but rotton goo so we must have missed it during the candling.

That's 100% success hatch rate on the fertile eggs! We're rather proud of ourselves.

 

[Petej]

Good to see the chick is doing well!

I have a Quail chick that got stuck to some tape that I used to hold the thermometer to the turner after hatching.

He/she now has a permanent kink in it's neck. It' snow three weeks old and doing fine. I little small, but still doing OK.

His name is............Wait for it............Duct tape.

 

[hurricanearran]

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[Petej]

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My wife named it. I thought it was cute. so it stuck.

How is your chickie now?

 

[hurricanearran]

Just an update to say that this poor little chick died last night. Frankly I was surprised she made it two weeks! At first I thought she was improving but as all the others started to grown and develop, it became apparent she was not growing and very sick. I wish that we had been in a position to house her in a seperate brooder but we didn't have another set up available. It's too cold out at the moment to move the chicks outside to the coop otherwise we might have done that and kept her in the house. She was defo too weak and small to compete with 21 other growing, healthy chicks. Still, we had a 100% hatch rate and only lost one chick so far, so I think we're doing pretty good.

 

[sonjab314]

Sorry to hear that. I was hoping he'd pull out of it