Help! lethargic chick with bald bum

[Kris5902]

I ferment my feed as well, but because I was in the city for 3 days prior to pick up for my husbands medical appointments and picking them up on the way home I wasn’t able to bring any for them. They are now all set up in their brooder, with fermented mash, some dry crumbles, and a full water container with electrolytes. I’m hoping the raised heater isn’t too high for them, especially little bald bottom and the other smaller chick.
I should have mentioned I picked up 14 chicks in total, and they were an order that the buyer reneged on. I’m wondering now if it may have been due to their size or condition, because the eggs I hatched out from the same breeder were far more robust and larger.

 

[Kris5902]

Sounds like it’s working out so far keep it up I really hope your Easter Egger/americana ( I couldn’t tell by the picture) is felling better by tomorrow

Thanks! She’s a barnvelder... I got 4 barnvelders and 10 blue layer hybrids of a crested cream legbar cock over leghorn hens. I was mostly looking for the blue layers, but if they all make it, the barnvelders will make a nice addition to the 4 I hatched last month! This brings the beginnings of my flock to 27 birds... but I’m probably going to have far less depending on how many turn out to be roosters

 

[aart]

Most of the chicks are shunning my eco-glow heater, but little baldie is right under it.

Curious how you are powering the ecoglow enroute?

Just pooped in my hand! If someone had told me a year ago that I would be happy when that happens I’d have laughed at them

'Bout spit coffee all over laptop.

 

[Kris5902]

Curious how you are powering the ecoglow enroute?

'Bout spit coffee all over laptop.

I have a small 300watt inverter that plugs into the cigarette lighter/12v outlet in the car or truck. The ecoglow 20 only draws 18watts, and we had no battery issues, even when the truck was parked on the ferry for two hours.

 

[CanadaEh]

was adding 1tsp of raw (with mother) vinegar and 2 crashed gloves of garlic per gallon of water to our 14 chicks from the begining, they all made it ok. Two of them was so much behind I though there were bantams somehow.

 

[Kris5902]

I’m sad to say the little one didn’t make it through the second night... I got her drinking and eating, and the bottom wasn’t pasted, things were looking up... then Friday morning I found her between the heater and the feeder, partially covered in the shavings. After a closer inspection under better lighting, Wyorp Rock was probably correct

The baldness could be that the chick had pasty butt and the previous owner just pulled off the stuck poo. Or it got picked off, etc.

I’m not sure if I will continue to get chicks from this breeder... they have nice bloodlines, and beautiful pullets and adults, but if all the chicks are like this... I will just get their hatching eggs and take my chances on my incubator

 

[ChickNanny13]

 

[aart]

I’m not sure if I will continue to get chicks from this breeder... they have nice bloodlines, and beautiful pullets and adults, but if all the chicks are like this... I will just get their hatching eggs and take my chances on my incubator

Have you ever had 'bad' chicks from them before?
Could been a glitch from several aspects.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

So sorry for your loss

 

[Kris5902]

Have you ever had 'bad' chicks from them before?
Could been a glitch from several aspects.

This was my first time getting chicks from them. I did get hatching eggs, which worked well and produced robust chicks dispite my inexperience, though I had humidity problems and had a very low hatch rate - all the errors there was me, only 10 eggs out of 43 were infertile or died early... almost all made it to lockdown, then my humidity blunder came into play. The chicks were available because the original purchaser backed out.