how to care for my 1 single baby chick that was abandoned when hatched now it's 5 days old and I'm g

[TuKuMaMa]

I have been taking care of my abandoned baby chick since it hatched. She's 5 days today and is so attached to me! I love it but I'd love to keep her alive by eating and beginning to grow health and independence so far not going well. HELP!!! PLEASE!!!

 

[AmishThunder]

Buy a couple baby chicks to keep it company! Try to get some that are roughly the same age as it because they are social creatures and will do better with others to hang out with.

 

[arkiechick lady]

I had one hatch from a first time test incubation. Every time I went to check on her, she wanted me to pick her up. After she grew to 8 weeks, we tried putting her in with my adults. What a disaster! Joanie (the pullet) runs from every other chicken to her human mom or dad. We ended up having to put her in her own a-frame coop. She's now the decided farm mascot. From now on, if that ever happens again, I will purchase some other baby chicks to go in with it. OH, we love her don't get me wrong, but when a bird has no clue it's a bird......it becomes a serious pet. She's a hoot always wanting to be picked up.

 

[critterkeeper25]

I agree with Amish Thunder. We had 1 remaining survivor of a shipment of 15 that we ordered from a hatchery in Mo. I went to the nearest Tractor Supply and bought 6 to keep it company. Sadly, it died about an hour or two later. The hatchery sent us replacement chicks and one of those was getting bullied. Someone was picking out its tail feathers, so we brought it into the garage and kept it in a box by itself for a week for the bloody mess to heal up. While it was in the box, it would come over to my hand when I was changing its water/feed and would press itself into my hand. It would always hop up when it would see me coming and run over to my side of the box. It has been with the others for a month now but it will come over to the fence when I call it and is the only one that won't peck my fingers when I stick them through the fence to stroke under its beak. It even presses itself to the fence so that I can pet it. I am hoping that it is a hen. We really don't want any roosters. Hmmm, we might make an exception for this one!

 

[ChickyChicky327]

We just had the same situation, and we got our chick a couple friends. We had 10 EE chicks appx 5 days old and lost 9 of them when I heated the oven to make my dad a rhubarb pie for Father's Day (non-stick oven liner -- Teflon poisoning; we were *devastated*). Our remaining chick, Sunshine, cried all night unless we took her out of her brooder and held her.

Yesterday we drive 2 and a half hours each way to get her 3 Welsummer pullet chicks as friends. They were supposedly 3 days old, but they look to be more like a week. They're a bit bigger than Sunshine and have more developed wings.

We put them in with her and hung a CD in the brooder as a distraction. Sunshine pecked at them for a bit, but everyone is getting along fine now... Sunshine is MUCH happier.