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[artbykarenehaley]

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When your parents get home, tell them your chick needs a heat lamp. Washington is a lot like oregon, where I live. I've raised hundreds of chicks in this climate. The air here is so humid it cools them down quickly. In this environment, a consistent heat source is required. Not optional.

You got this, hold the chick close to you while you breathe on it, right on to it's body over and over. Touch your lips to it's legs, if his legs feel cold you are not done warming this chick up. Keep going. Turn on a heater and sit right next to it while you work to help your chick.

 

[writerskramp]

Welcome to BYC!
Try and get it to drink. Gently dip it's beak into some lukewarm warm water, take it out, and see if it swallows. As well as keeping it warm as artbykarenehaley said. Chicks this age should only be outside if it's sunny for a short time. Otherwise they should be in their brooder with food and water, with some sort of heating device. Good luck.

@artbykarenehaley, You could use an eyedropper to force feed of sorts, water and moistened mash.. Till it builds strength.. Have doctored older hens, with cooked oatmeal to scrambled eggs.. for sour crop, seems weird but it worked. Now I just add a table spoon of baking soda per gallon to the waterer one time and shazam! No more sour crop, if you catch it early enough.. Keep it warm too. Best wishes.

 

[artbykarenehaley]

I don't want to be mean, but I'm afraid she may die soon. That chick needs a companion (another chick) and a proper heat source.
Maybe when you raised the other one the ambient temperature was hot enough for it without need of very hot sources. Now you said It's really cold when you're raising this one, probably that heat source isn't enough. I saw you took her outside, does she shows any respiratory issues? Chicks loose heat really fast and if it was cold outside she may got his lungs chilled and now she may caught something. I'm not so prone thinking the dog injured her since she didn't show symptoms until the morning after, but maybe being wet from the saliva chilled her more and faster.

I think you may be right, I was worried the dog might have scared the chick more than anything but knowing now that there's not a constant heat source, the dog may not have been the issue. this chick needs to be warned up as soon as possible.

 

[Ashley129]

Pick the chick up, cup it in your hands and breath on it. Talk softly to it. Whistle to it if you can, see if it tries to find the sound. When it perks up a little, get warm water in the chick as soon as you can. If it perks up more, hold it close to you under your shirt, wrap yourself in a warm blanket. You might feel uncomfortable but the chick really needs warmth.

I can’t pick it up if I do it start chirping loud it seems like it’s body is hurt,and I will try and put it under my shirt

 

[Ashley129]

When your parents get home, tell them your chick needs a heat lamp. Washington is a lot like oregon, where I live. I've raised hundreds of chicks in this climate. The air here is so humid it cools them down quickly. In this environment, a consistent heat source is required. Not optional.

okay thanks quick question is it safe and warm enough if I put my baby chick like near my heater I put a blanket on top and then but it on top of it so that way the heat is going thru the blanket?

 

[Ashley129]

I think you may be right, I was worried the dog might have scared the chick more than anything but knowing now that there's not a constant heat source, the dog may not have been the issue. this chick needs to be warned up as soon as possible.

when I took it out it was sunny and I’m pretty sure it was warm enough for the chicken it was walking around my yard then the next day I took it out it was also hot so it was only out for a while but it didn’t move on like it stay there trying to stand up but it can’t.

 

[Ashley129]

You

You got this, hold the chick close to you while you breathe on it, right on to it's body over and over. Touch your lips to it's legs, if his legs feel cold you are not done warming this chick up. Keep going. Turn on a heater and sit right next to it while you work to help your chick.

it body is warm maybe because of the heater but I’m tryna to move it every 2-3 minutes to it other side so it doesn’t get to hot but it cry’s when u touch it body

 

[JacinLarkwell]

when I took it out it was sunny and I’m pretty sure it was warm enough for the chicken it was walking around my yard then the next day I took it out it was also hot so it was only out for a while but it didn’t move on like it stay there trying to stand up but it can’t.

It isn't warm enough unless its high 80s or low 90s. It doesn't have a hen it can just go under when it starts to get chilled

 

[Skyle]

I think she's so exhausted (and maybe sick too) that she chirps when you touch her because you wake her up.
She seems less than 1 week old, am I right? Chicks at that age need 95°F (not costantly, they have to be able to escape from the heat, but they'll sleep a lot under the heat). Are you sure now she has something that's warming her that has about 95 degrees?

 

[artbykarenehaley]

@artbykarenehaley, You could use an eyedropper to force feed of sorts, water and moistened mash.. Till it builds strength.. Have doctored older hens, with cooked oatmeal to scrambled eggs.. for sour crop, seems weird but it worked. Now I just add a table spoon of baking soda per gallon to the waterer one time and shazam! No more sour crop, if you catch it early enough.. Keep it warm too. Best wishes.

Yes! A pipette works well too, they have such a tiny tip they work so well. I just last week used one to revive one of our button quail that had gotten chilled during the process of being removed from it's egg. I fed it a warm banana, gatorade, egg yolk and water mixture, tiny drops at a time. I found that a soaked q tip rubbed against the corner of the chicks beak can encourage it to open its mouth back up.