Dropped a chick....

[Starshollow]

We had a hatch this weekend so she's only a couple days old and jumped out of my hands. She got up and walked ok and I thought she was fine.
I went back to check them before lights out and she was at the back of the heat plate. I lifted it and she didn't move so I poked her and she got up blinked and laid back down.

I moved her to where I could see her and she just laid down where I placed her. Others were walking all over her and she would chirp at them but right back to sleep.

She seems to be breathing fast but not gasping. I have her wrapped in a towel in a hoodie on backwards. She chirps when I poke at her but she goes right back to sleep.

Anything I can do to help her?
I feel terrible

 

[nuthatched]

Not your fault. Have you tried giving her sugar/yolk water to perk her up

 

[Starshollow]

Not your fault. Have you tried giving her sugar/yolk water to perk her up

What is yolk water?
I will tey anything right now.

 

[Saveria]

You can feed her some egg yolk, egg yolk mixed with water, sugar water, or electrolyte solution, whichever one you have on hand that she will take.

 

[Starshollow]

Thank you! Doing so now!

 

[Saveria]

Great. I agree, don't beat yourself up. This kind of thing happens often. If she makes it she can be your miracle chick.

 

[Starshollow]

No miracle here. She was gone in the am.

 

[Saveria]

Oh, I am so sorry.
Losing chicks is the worst.