need help asap :(

[nayeli]

I also need help! Very frustrating I can not get a silkie chick to live to save my butt. Incubate they hatch look healthy. Put in a box lined with a towel brooder. Water no drowning kind. Food and four days later it won't walk lays there. Found it outside of the brooder this morning. Then it just open and closes its beeck like every few seconds like looks like gasping for air or dying. I nursed one one time with sugar water in a dropper. So disappointing. Don't know what the deal is. Really want baby chicks and hace money invested in buying eggs and incubators. Ugh. What can I do.

. Any suggestions!!???? Please.

I'm sorry. I'm on my 2nd batch of silkies with no casualties. Maybe mash up their food though. I've noticed its a little hard for them to eat unless I grind/smash it into smaller bits. I'm assuming you have a heat lamp on them... and you dipped their beeks in water? You have to teach them to eat and drink usually. I always dip all beeks in water once and show them the food.

 

[nikmetz]

What do u feed ?

 

[nayeli]

Poultry feed. Its unmedicated.