New baby chick weak

[Mutchi]

We have a weak chick! The story begins... we walked in the coop to see our new tophat chickes and we find our smallest chick being trampled be the older chicks she was on her side and her head was being stepped on! So we took her and made a mini brooder for her then we took another small chick to Put in the brooder with Our week one. Any ideas what to do?

 

[azygous]

Your baby chick was likely a goner before you even saw it. Some chicks hatch with birth defects but look normal. But by the time they experience the stress of being shipped from the hatchery, their incomplete bodies can't cope. They are marked for defeat when they hatch. It has nothing to do with how you cared for it so do not blame yourself because that just isn't right.

Focus on your other new chicks. They will bring your joy to replace the heartache you feel for the one that didn't survive.

 

[azygous]

It may be a failure-to-thrive chick. But on the chance it's suffering shipping stress, heat a hand towel in the dryer so it's toasty warm but not burning hot and wrap the chick in it. Have a small dish of warm sugar water handy, a half cup water with half teaspoon sugar, and take a small syringe or eye dropper and give the chick drops of the water into the right side of its beak. Do this all day at one hour intervals.

A chick such as this would benefit more from direct contact heat than a heat lamp. Try rigging up a heating pad for it to crawl under to warm itself. Use the high setting and make the pad about two inches high.

 

[azygous]

Sugar water will warm her from the inside so do that for her. It also will elevate her glucose levels and give her energy so she will behave more normally and be more inclined to try to eat.

It helps to teach new baby chicks to eat if you sprinkle their chick food on the floor of the brooder.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I'm thinking it's just a faliure to thrive. Is it just sleeping ir is it actively dying?

 

[azygous]

Sugar water, a few drops every hour will do more to revive a sickly chick than anything. Have you tried it yet? If not, what are you waiting for?

If you have no syringe, wet a Q-tip in the sugar water and drip it on the side of the beak. The chick will suck it in. Keep doing it until the chick refuses to suck in any more. Do it again in an hour. Keep doing it every hour.

 

[Mutchi]

Dont feel too bad. Sometimes chicks die. I had one that was acting a bit off and within ten minutes it had seized and gone stiff

Thanks for the support but in return my friend bought me a few new tophat chickes and some other chicks but, most of all a goat and a turkey! I told her she shouldn't have but she did!

 

[Mutchi]

It may be a failure-to-thrive chick. But on the chance it's suffering shipping stress, heat a hand towel in the dryer so it's toasty warm but not burning hot and wrap the chick in it. Have a small dish of warm sugar water handy, a half cup water with half teaspoon sugar, and take a small syringe or eye dropper and give the chick drops of the water into the right side of its beak. Do this all day at one hour intervals.

A chick such as this would benefit more from direct contact heat than a heat lamp. Try rigging up a heating pad for it to crawl under to warm itself. Use the high setting and make the pad about two inches high.

Thanks she isn't really going anywhere I Have her on a heat pad and I have my hands on her to keep all the heat of the heat pad and in my hand so she is warm is that good

 

[Mutchi]

I'm really hoping that she lives

 

[Mutchi]

Sugar water will warm her from the inside so do that for her. It also will elevate her glucose levels and give her energy so she will behave more normally and be more inclined to try to eat.

It helps to teach new baby chicks to eat if you sprinkle their chick food on the floor of the brooder.

Thanks that deserves a follow!