Hi, I have a blind chick and I was wondering if you'd be able to help me out. I had a hen start hatching chicks about 4 days ago, and she hatched 11 within the first day and a half, but later that day another chick started hatching. This concerned me because I knew she was going to get off of the nest soon and start teaching her babies how to forage, so I checked on the chick often to make sure she was drying properly. Right from the start I knew something was wrong with this chick, because she wasn't opening her eyes and her head would twitch, almost like she was going to peck at something on her foot, but her head would move in circles repeatedly. Her eyes appear to me like they're sunk in. This sounds to me like she has mental problems that I can't really help, but I figured there might be hope for her. Earlier today I set her in a shallow water dish to see if she would attempt to drink, and she basically got her beak a little wet from me putting her in, and she put her head up and swallowed for a minute. I don't know what I'm going to do at this point, because it breaks my heart to see a chick that can't help herself and gets left behind by her mother, but I don't know if I could bring myself to cull her. I know she'll die of dehydration if I don't do something soon though, and I want to make sure she's not suffering
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