HELP losing only peachick

[strawn28]

Hatched our first peachick she is a week old. Been eating drinking running around came home this afternoon she was laid out flat very weak. What do I do?

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Hatched our first peachick she is a week old. Been eating drinking running around came home this afternoon she was laid out flat very weak. What do I do?

What are feeding her? Peachicks need a feed with high protein % at least for the first week of their life.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

If they were fed feed with less than 20% of protein they will get weak after a week or two, and they will lose their balance and most of them will die after that.

 

[strawn28]

We did chick starter food! Can I do anything now? Or is it to late?

 

[strawn28]

We have been trying to get sugar water down her to get electrolytes

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

We have been trying to get sugar water down her to get electrolytes

Can you check your feed bag to see the percentage of protein it has? Just to be sure its the problem here.

Can she eat on her own?

 

[strawn28]

She just died!

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

She just died!

So sorry.

 

[strawn28]

Feed is 20% protein. What did we do wrong?
We aren't hatching successfully either.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Feed is 20% protein. What did we do wrong?
We aren't hatching successfully either.

20% is too low i guess, i would suggest feed with 26% or 28% for the first two weeks only then reduce it to 18% after two weeks. I think the feed is the problem here, if she was acting normal and after a week she just got so weak and died. She wasn't looking sick right?