thatbeechick
Chirping
Hi all,
I had an emergency 3 days late hatch yesterday with this little one, she was unable to get out of the egg on her own despite fully absorbed yolk and receded membrane veins, I had to lift her out, clean her up, provide vitamins and electrolytes and warm her up (She was VERY cold) for a solid 3 hours. She's pipped internally but not externally and was malpositioned, I saved her by chance as I did my post-incubation egg autopsy.
She was fine after lots of TLC initially, went into the brooder with her siblings and could eat, drink, walk around. Looked like a normal, healthy chick.
Today she's not so great, head tucked under her feet with a slight head twitch, I'm hand-feeding and adding Vitamin E along with more multivitamins and electrolytes in a chick mash.
She's 1 day old. What sort of odds am I looking at for her survival? I'm pretty certain it's Crazy Chick Disease (Encephalomalacia) that she has, her movements match every video of it I've looked at and she's not stargazing at all. I am mostly working from home so I can assist pretty well for the next week.
Percentage chance she'll make it? Similar experiences? Help?
I had an emergency 3 days late hatch yesterday with this little one, she was unable to get out of the egg on her own despite fully absorbed yolk and receded membrane veins, I had to lift her out, clean her up, provide vitamins and electrolytes and warm her up (She was VERY cold) for a solid 3 hours. She's pipped internally but not externally and was malpositioned, I saved her by chance as I did my post-incubation egg autopsy.
She was fine after lots of TLC initially, went into the brooder with her siblings and could eat, drink, walk around. Looked like a normal, healthy chick.
Today she's not so great, head tucked under her feet with a slight head twitch, I'm hand-feeding and adding Vitamin E along with more multivitamins and electrolytes in a chick mash.
She's 1 day old. What sort of odds am I looking at for her survival? I'm pretty certain it's Crazy Chick Disease (Encephalomalacia) that she has, her movements match every video of it I've looked at and she's not stargazing at all. I am mostly working from home so I can assist pretty well for the next week.
Percentage chance she'll make it? Similar experiences? Help?