My 10 week old chicky stole my earing!

[Caffus]

It's a peridot stud earing. It's small. She jumped on my back climbed up and pecked my earing out. It fell on the bedding and I could not find it!
I'm concerned one of them might find it and swallow it and die! What do you think?
Has anything like this happened to you?
What did you do?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Is there metal? Maybe take a magnet out and sweep it over the bedding to see if you can find it.
If it's a small stud, very possible one of the chicks may swallow it. It may pass through o.k. hard to know really.

 

[Caffus]

thank you.. Yes its gold. I will try in the morning.

 

[Weeg]

You can use a magnet or a metal detector, to find it. I jus tread a thread about a duck who swallowed an erring and passed it okay, but that was a full grown duck, not a chick. You should defently find the erring, for any pointy part of the erring can puncture her innards and can cause internal bleeding and death. Hopefully you find it! Good luck, Avery

 

[Caffus]

You can use a magnet or a metal detector, to find it. I jus tread a thread about a duck who swallowed an erring and passed it okay, but that was a full grown duck, not a chick. You should defently find the erring, for any pointy part of the erring can puncture her innards and can cause internal bleeding and death. Hopefully you find it! Good luck, Avery

Thank you

 

[Caffus]

Well I really tried to find it with a large magnet. Couldn't find it. So, I just hope they will all be ok.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

That's all you can do. They may not find it at all or one may have already found it and passed it on.
Just keep watch on them for several days.

 

[dbtcowgirl]

A metal detector would work, but gold is not magnetic. Hopefully it turns up without issues. I'm sure they get into lots of things all the time we don't know about. Looking through a night with a bright flashlight you might see a glint.

 

[NatJ]

It's a peridot stud earing. It's small. She jumped on my back climbed up and pecked my earing out. It fell on the bedding and I could not find it!

If it fell in the chick bedding, you could lift the chicks out into a box, remove ALL the bedding, and put in fresh bedding. Then put the chicks back.

That may not help find your earring, but would make sure that no chick could access it (unless they already did.)

Chickens--even baby ones--eat lots of weird things and are usually fine. Not always, but usually.

its gold.

Gold will not be attracted to a magnet, but sometimes earrings have gold plating over some other metal. The other metal might stick to a magnet.

If you have the other earring of the pair, you can test it: see if that earring sticks to a magnet!

 

[Caffus]

Ya...it doesn't its pure gold.