HELP!! One of my babies keeps crying

[hippiehen]

Try the yolk from a hard boiled egg.. I had a picky chick and she ate it up!

After a while I would start mixing the starter feed in with the mashed yolk and slowly removing the egg until she was just eating feed.

*EDIT* Sorry, just read that she died.

Maybe next time you will have better luck!

 

[SeramaLife]

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Hay! Found out what to do for pasty butts. I was having this problem also! Jerry with the Seramas in LA. reccomends kids play sand mixed with there food. I did not want that much and got a box of finch grit. Its like sand and mix it with the mash and no more pasty butts. I put there lil butts under warm water the poop will loosin and come off. One other thing I had a cryer and he was really tiny so I began dipping his beak in the water and he drank and drank. Try dipping his beak. After he got the water he now knows where it is and no more crying. Just as a habbit all new chicks get there beaks dipped in sugar water for the first time, then they know where it is. This lil guy just needed a lil extra dip...

I read that he did that and now I do it too! No more pastiness!

Sorry about Happy feet.

 

[chickenguysmom]

I am sorry to hear about Happy Feet. You are such a good chicken mom and tried to help, but sometimes they just slip away from you.