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LadyoftheCluck said:
Oh, as a post script to my above thread: I looked our chick over, and did not see any mites, lice, etc.
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Sorry about your chick!
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You are off to the right start. I would post here for further advice
https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/10/emergencies-diseases-injuries-and-cures
 
Thanks all, appreciate the warm welcome :)

As an update to our sick chick, she is still alive, but I am still having to feed her every 2hours because she simply will not eat or drink on her own. There is an improvement in the fact that she is not just standing with her eyes closed all the time, and I do see her laying, standing, etc. But she is still lethargic in her activity, and the part that concerns me the most is that she is only being sustained by my feeding her. I am not ready to let her go, but I am concerned that she has no desire to eat or drink herself. She does participate when I'm giving her the dropper, but at what point have I crossed the line between letting nature take its course, or interfering with natural selection?

I have never before had to cull any birds, nor entertain the idea of culling, but if she's not eating/drinking on her own, is she actually suffering?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Danielle
 
We ended up culling our chick. :(

After 7 days of feeding/watering her manually every 2 hours - we never saw her drink on her own, and only saw her eat on her own twice - we realized that she was only half the size of her other hatch mates. We felt that we really tried everything, but in the end, she wasn't growing.

I have to say that culling was one of the single most difficult things I have ever done, and while I know it is the responsible and most humane thing to do in certain cases, I pray that I do not have to do it often enough to ever get used to it.

Thanks for everyone's encouragement. I appreciate it immensely.

Danielle
 
LadyoftheCluck said:
We ended up culling our chick.
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After 7 days of feeding/watering her manually every 2 hours - we never saw her drink on her own, and only saw her eat on her own twice - we realized that she was only half the size of her other hatch mates. We felt that we really tried everything, but in the end, she wasn't growing.

I have to say that culling was one of the single most difficult things I have ever done, and while I know it is the responsible and most humane thing to do in certain cases, I pray that I do not have to do it often enough to ever get used to it.

Thanks for everyone's encouragement. I appreciate it immensely.

Danielle
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I'm so sorry about your chick, that's such sad news.
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