My 5 day old chick

[Chrissy6969]

My 5 day old chick can not stand on her feet she goes in circles I have been hand feeding her baby oatmeal with vitamin e and 1/2 of crushed selenium and I make it with water she seems to eat some of it when I put it into a dropper I'm very concerned about her because she can not stand me and my husband this is our first time and we got eggs put them in an incubator and out of 13 eggs only two hatched please can someone please help I don't want her to die thank you so much

 

[SmiYa0126]

I would use chick starter instead of oatmeal. If you're giving oatmeal she'll need chick grit too. Oatmeal wouldn't meet the nutrition needs of a chick.

Do you have nutri drench? Or save a chick vitamins?

Feed her raw yolk with honey or maple syrup if you don't have nutri drench. You can mix it together and use your finger to put some on the top of her beak or also on the side of her beak ( where the beak meets the head) do it slowly to make sure she's taking it in.

 

[coach723]

In addition I would get some super B complex tablets or capsules (human ones), and give 1/4 of one ground up and mixed in a bit of moistened chick starter (edit**daily). Also an E capsule daily (400iu), with a bit of cooked egg or canned tuna (again mix into a bit of moistened feed) for selenium (helps with the uptake of the E. Vitamin deficiencies in the parent stock can sometimes affect hatching chicks. If needed you can use a chick chair (link below with examples) to help it stay upright and eat and drink until it finds it's legs. You do need to make sure that it can't drown in a water dish.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/versions-of-chick-chairs-please.1166308/

 

[SmiYa0126]

How's your chucky doing?

 

[Chrissy6969]

She is eating scrambled eggs with vitamin e and selenium about every two hours I'm still hand feeding her water and she is still can't stand up thank you for asking

How's your chucky doing?

 

[SmiYa0126]

That's good that she's eating! You're following a good feeding regimen. Can you mix some moistened chick starter into the eggs?

 

[Chrissy6969]

That's good that she's eating! You're following a good feeding regimen. Can you mix some moistened chick starter into the eggs?

Thank you very much I have been reading a lot and joined this blog and I thank everyone that has helped me I really appreciate it