Just got baby chicks for the first time and..

[Childers1706]

Thanks for all your responses! All butts are clean! (For now lol). No one is picking on her and she has drank water then I’ve either dipped her beak into or rubbed a drop on her beak. She’s wiggled around a little bit still not up and moving.

 

[blackdog043]

If you don't have Poultry Nutri Drench on hand to add to the water, put 3 tablespoons of sugar in a quart of water. Dip her beak in it, it might help perk her up.

 

[Shorty22366]

Yes pasty butt is very dangerous.

 

[BuffOrps32]

If you don't have Poultry Nutri Drench on hand to add to the water, put 3 tablespoons of sugar in a quart of water. Dip her beak in it, it might help perk her up.

X2 Good idea

 

[sylviethecochin]

I’m worried about one. I’ve never had chickens before so I don’t know if this is normal but I’m pretty sure it’s not. I’ve got one baby chick who isn’t moving. She’s currently napping but she’s laying down. Earlier she was kind of laying on her side and then she fell onto her back and couldn’t get back over so I helped her. I don’t want to lose her obviously. Is the anything I can do? Thanks for your responses!

You should really get some sort of poultry vitamins. Electrolytes will provide a boost and help with dehydration, but she sounds sick enough that that most likely won't fix her. (recipe is 2 qt water, 1 tbsp sweetner (not molasses or artificial sugar), 1 pinch salt, 1 tsp baking soda.)

Can you provide a picture of her poop?
Is she warm enough? (sometimes, warming a chick up is all it takes)
Again, how old is she?

If you don't have any sort of poultry vitamins on hand, human vitamins will work. She should have b-complex (you can dissolve a tablet in a quart of water) 300 IU of E, and a little bit of selenium. Those are generally the main culprits.

Good luck with her and welcome to BYC.

 

[Childers1706]

If you don't have Poultry Nutri Drench on hand to add to the water, put 3 tablespoons of sugar in a quart of water. Dip her beak in it, it might help perk her up.

I’m going to give this a try. Thanks so much!

 

[Childers1706]

You should really get some sort of poultry vitamins. Electrolytes will provide a boost and help with dehydration, but she sounds sick enough that that most likely won't fix her. (recipe is 2 qt water, 1 tbsp sweetner (not molasses or artificial sugar), 1 pinch salt, 1 tsp baking soda.)

Can you provide a picture of her poop?
Is she warm enough? (sometimes, warming a chick up is all it takes)
Again, how old is she?

If you don't have any sort of poultry vitamins on hand, human vitamins will work. She should have b-complex (you can dissolve a tablet in a quart of water) 300 IU of E, and a little bit of selenium. Those are generally the main culprits.

Good luck with her and welcome to BYC.

No poop yet. They just got the shipment in so I’d guess a day or two old. Thanks for the recipe. I’m mixing it up now!

 

[sylviethecochin]

I’d guess a day or two old.

Okay. So no need to worry about coccidiosis (it has to incubate inside the chick for eight days before symptoms show) While corid is a nice thing to have on hand (hint, hint) I don't believe in medicating without cause. Besides, you can't give vitamin B1 while giving corid (well, you can, but it completely invalidates the corid, as the main ingredient, amprollium, is designed to stop the fungi from absorbing B1. If you're giving B1, then the amprollium doesn't work.)

I still recommend chick vitamins.

Hope she recovers.