- Mar 27, 2014
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Hello all, I am just beginning my foray into a flock. This last weekend we got 6 chicks from the local feed store 3 B.O. and 3 R.I.R. They are being kept in a kiddie pool with pine shavings pretty thick on the floor of it, a plastic waterer and feeder (containing medicated chick feed) from the feedstore and a chick stick and a heat lamp. They have all seemed content, nobody huddled under the heat lamp nobody over in the cool side of the pool. All seemed fine this morning, we got them Saturday and it is now Thursday, one possible start of pasty butt on one of them on the day they came home but I cleaned it and their butts have been as clean as a whistle since. They have never been outside, I have changed their water 3 times in the 5 days even though it is entirely clear other than the pine shavings I scoop out of the trough twice a day. NOW for the problem. One of the R.I.R's is lethargic. I have pulled her from the others and put her in the bathroom in a bucket with sugar water and feed and a heat lamp. She is standing some and has ate and drank since I put her in there a couple hours ago and she has pooed very normal looking no blood all in a soft pellet poo. She was laying down when I went to check on them and the rest ran her over and then she did not get up and when I picked her up she was not her fiesty self at all and just layed in my hand like a dying chick. When I put her in her confinement space she just layed all sprawled out. Now that she has ate and drank she is standing and cheeping.... should I keep her in her isolation? how long? what criteria must she meet to be put back with the rest of the flock? Am I doing all I should? Thanks in advance.
Sherri
Sherri