help!!! cold chick

[montcapu]

I went out to shut up the girls for the night and when I came back in (maybe gone 10 minutes) 2 year old dropped cold water onto our chick and moved the cage over to the air conditioner... i need to know what to do to get the body temp up to help save this one

 

[baltimoreharps]

How old is the chick?

First thing you need to do is to get it dry with a towel, then if you can, get a blow dyer on low heat and continue to dry the chick that way.
If it's in a brooder with a broody hen, get that chick back asap under the Momma hen after getting the chick dry.
If it's in an incubator or brooder with a heat lamp, make sure that the chick is warming up and fairly dry before putting it back to make sure that the poor little thing doesn't lose any more heat than it has already!

That's all I know to do, but I'm fairly new, and going off of what Ihad to do when my day olds got soaked, so hoping someone else will come along with more info for you!!

 

[jessica117]

Hair dryer on low works well.

 

[montcapu]

she is only 5 days old... I got her pretty much all dry but she keeps drooping her head and closing her eyes, is she just trying to conserve her energy until she gets back up to temp or is it a lost cause

 

[jessica117]

I'd try some giving her a little sugar water to give her a little boost. Just keep her as warm as possible (but not too warm of course) and make sure she's drinking.

Good luck and hope all turns out well

 

[baltimoreharps]

Not a lost cause at all! Do you have an eye dropper to give her some sugar water or some Poly Vi Sol (No iron) to dribble into the chick's nouth to give her a boost?
If you don't have an eyedropper, try to mix up some sugar water in a small container and just dip her beakin so that the chick can try to drink some.
Poor thing is probably in shock from the cold, just get her warm, dry and something either in sugar water or elecrtolytes to help her perk back up.

Just remember that they need to be a lot warmer than our body temp, so under the heat lamp or broody they go and give drops or dunk the beak carefully into sugar water or electrolytes.

Mine made it through fine, but didn't get chilled much.
Get that baby warmed safely!!

 

[baltimoreharps]

What Jessica said so succiently!!

I have a habit of typing way too much.

 

[sammi]

try using a heating pad, or a warmed towel, or heat pack..lay/wrap the chick to warm up.
give a little warm water by drops on beak.

(warming a towel in the microwave works, oven, or use a blow dryer (to warm the towel)..not too high or hot)
just wrapping in blanket/towel won't help the chick to get it's body temp back up..

 

[montcapu]

she looks so droopy to me... her heads and wings, I got the heat lamp near her (not on her) her feathers are all dry now, but seems to be in shock, gave her some sugar water seems like she has perked up a bit

 

[threehorses]

Use a hair dryer lightly on her - off and on. Dry it off as much as posisble before. Keep spot drying with paper towels. The hair dryer should be on low heat - not high, and then keep your hand there to see what the temp is. They dry very very quickly (and overheat just as quickly).

Honestyl you might be able to just dry the baby a lot with paper towels and then let it get under a brooding lamp, but watch it carefully.