Mom- our vet has a new machine. It is like an MRI for birds. He can see all the organs ect... I could ask him if he could zap your chick (for free) with that machine and we could see what is right and what is wrong with it internally. I don't know that he would agree to do it but he is a pretty compassionate person. I love that chick.... It is just adorable.
What breeds could the parents be?
Nova - thanks for the reassurance about the keet. I hope you are right. The older folks roll the cage with them around the lobby and sit with the birds all day. If I was those birds, I would be suicidal. I like the idea of putting a nest box in there for privacy. Wish I could find a place to take that pair of keet and turn them loose into a big aviary. Anyone have a big aviary?
Can you stuff your duck house with straw, so they can stand on some too and then block them in the doghouse full of straw? Just overnight? Gonna go to ZERO tonight.
Well, they didn't go out in the snow much today. They stayed in the winter run. Their coop is FULL of straw, and no snow in the run except where I go in and out, and they aren't allowed in that area. In fact, I put all fresh straw in yesterday in anticipation of our Lovely Michigan Weather! Today is just the first time I have ever seen them shiver until today. The poor little devils. I even put a wind block at the front of their coop, even though it faces into the winter run so they'd be able to keep more of their body heat in their coop. I am just a wimp too I guess. LOL. How ever could they have survived this long with out heat! LOL. I know. Mother nature... LOL. BUT STILL! They are shivering!