Going to lose my first chick. I’m heartbroken.

[Chickole]

I feel absolutely awful. She’s so much smaller than the rest, isn’t eating or drinking properly, won’t take food or raw egg/electrolytes from syringe and just cries. I don’t know what to do. A chick pecked her eye so it’s completely shut now. I flushed it and put neosporin. It’s grey when I open it.

She sleeps away from the flock (6 total) and the flock ignores her. They’re a week old. I don’t know if I have the heart for this. She seems miserable and I’m crying seeing her in pain. I hope I toughen up.

 

[Chickole]

Update: She just passed. She was my favorite

 

[PrettyCoolChicks]

Sorry about your chick, it sounds like she's in a better place now and no longer in pain at least. I know it's hard

 

[Chickole]

Sorry about your chick, it sounds like she's in a better place now and no longer in pain at least. I know it's hard

Thank you I sure hope she’s in a better place, she had a rough time. Does it get any better with losing them?

 

[PrettyCoolChicks]

I don't know if it gets easier. I have only started keeping chicken this year and lost a duckling last week, which was my first one passing too. Just thinking of other pets I had before, I think it stays equally sad but we become better at dealing with the emotion, maybe?

 

[ltcffl03]

So sorry

 

[thecatumbrella]

Teared up reading this. I'm so sorry.

 

[GreenJay]

so sorry, she was a pretty chick!

 

[WoDia]

I’m very sorry to hear. Give your other chicks extra cuddles.

 

[SchwartzLakeFarmNC]

Thank you I sure hope she’s in a better place, she had a rough time. Does it get any better with losing them?

It never gets better losing a chick or hen, it only comes with reduced length of sorrow in my opinion. I want to grieve the loss, I don't enjoy it, but if I lose the emotion of loss, I would stop loving my chickens all together. No one can say "I understand your pain", we all have suffered something like yours, but yours is individual and you'll grieve your own way for the length of time you need. What you do have here is friends, friends who do care and you can cry with or just write out the pain, we do care, we all love our flocks.

I'm sorry your little one didn't make it, I truly am.