My baby chick walk crouched down and sometimes fall HELP!

[Seasonalguest]

I found this baby chick at church last Sunday, mom abandoned it, brother was dead next to him. I took it home to take care of it and since then he has been doing super great. The plan was to raise him inside until he is strong enough to be introduced to our poultry.

So this morning like usual I got him out of his sleeping box and everything went great until I took a nap. I feel asleep on my bed and left him on the floor letting my hand hanging off to reassure him, I guess. When I woke up, he was now walking while crouched down, fall on his sides from time to time, stagger on place. I'm very concerned, he still eats and drink water and run (albeit that he sometimes fall) but he walks crouched down.

When I checked him I saw a long hair hanging out his mouth, slowly took it out and then warmed him which made his 'symptoms' calm down. What should I do?

I should add that I do not have the proper materials to take care of a chick, like a warming lamp. We use hot bottle of water instead and change it every 4 hours even at night.



Update: it doesn't seem to be getting better. I figured he might have hurt his left leg but now he is so weak. Yesterday after following your advices, he did drink, eat and took vitamins but now he doesn't want to drink anything. He just ate some scrambled eggs piece and keep stopping to lay down . If she falls on her back or side she doesn't try to get back up.

I also wanted to add that I do not live in America and here in my country finding equipment for poultry is rather hard. Is there any equivalent to poultry vitamin I can get? Is my chick going to make it?
I tried to attach a video but it doesn't work.

 

[WaterfowlsPoultry]

Try keeping a closer eye on him.
He may have eaten something or tried jumping onto the bed with you and ended up hurting himself.

 

[Seasonalguest]

Try keeping a closer eye on him.
He may have eaten something or tried jumping onto the bed with you and ended up hurting himself.

Heaven please I want him to live. I saw another threat that said that their chick's died because it was too cold. Right now I'm warming him just to be sure, however can chick be too hot?

 

[WaterfowlsPoultry]

Heaven please I want him to live. I saw another threat that said that their chick's died because it was too cold. Right now I'm warming him just to be sure, however can chick be too hot?

Chicks can be too hot, What are you warming him with?
Blow dryers are best when warming up chicks if they get cold.

 

[Seasonalguest]

Chicks can be too hot, What are you warming him with?
Blow dryers are best when warming up chicks if they get cold.

Bottle of water that I change every 4 hours, I wrap them up in a cotton leg warmer and let the chick rest next to it. If he is feeling cuddly I'll just place the bottle under my shirt (wrapped up a lot of time because it's very hot.) and let the chick rest on it. It was fine until now but maybe I did something wrong?

 

[WaterfowlsPoultry]

Bottle of water that I change every 4 hours, I wrap them up in a cotton leg warmer and let the chick rest next to it. If he is feeling cuddly I'll just place the bottle under my shirt (wrapped up a lot of time because it's very hot.) and let the chick rest on it. It was fine until now but maybe I did something wrong?

He 100% did something when you were asleep, Its up to you to identify it.

 

[LaFleche]

Feed him some scrambled eggs with millet daily and get some poultry vitamins too. The chick will need to spend some hours daily in natural sunlight or else it will develop issues caused by vitamin D deficiency such as rickets, loss of equilibrium etc.

Can you post some pictures of the chick and your set-up?

For his own safety he would need to be contained in a big cardboard box or similar when you cannot be around to keep an eye on him.

 

[Eggcessive]

Get some human vitamin B complex tablets about $9 at Walmart. Crushe a 1/4 tablet a day and dissolve in a spoonful of water, and give with a dropper. It would be dangerous for him to sleep with you, although you can keep him against your body for warmth during the day. However, I would use a heat lamp for chickens or make a mamas heating pad for him to get under. Get some chick starter grower feed and they do sell smaller bags at feed stores these days. They need some sunshine outdoors and good clean water daily for waking hours. How old do you think the chick is? Do you have pictures? Mama heating pads are good for brooding a chick when heat is needed. Here are examples just read through all pages for examples:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/another-mama-heating-pad-example.1608750/

 

[Seasonalguest]

Feed him some scrambled eggs with millet daily and get some poultry vitamins too. The chick will need to spend some hours daily in natural sunlight or else it will develop issues caused by vitamin D deficiency such as rickets, loss of equilibrium etc.

Can you post some pictures of the chick and your set-up?

For his own safety he would need to be contained in a big cardboard box or similar when you cannot be around to keep an eye on him.

I see, I'll try finding millet then. He doesn't stay in the box in the morning only at night to sleep. So we take the water and bottle of water out. Also we give him a 'walk' for 2h per day in the garden (so the others chicken can see him.)

 

[Eggcessive]

How warm is it when he is outside? As a newly hatched chick he needs a temperature of around 85 to 90 degress the first week, then lower that by 5 degrees each week of age until he has all of his feathers around 6-7 weeks when he should then no need extra heat. He really would do best on a balanced chick starter which is all he needs with all vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients. Once he starts eating grass or bugs, he will need grit which is also sold in feed stores. Chick size is good until he is around 11 weeks old, then adult size is needed.