Paranoid about chick, been out of the chicken game for a long while. Help!!!!

socal jeff

Hatching
6 Years
Jun 3, 2013
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Temecula area
One of my now 3-4 day old white leghorns is now very lethargic and sleepy. She was a ball of fire yesterday after picking her up at the post office. She has 5 other chicks with her and she is the only one acting this way. They have all been eating and drinking good. Her crop is full of food and if I dip her beak in water she drinks, but all day she has been not moving around much and falling asleep.
Am I just being paranoid or is there something wrong with her.
 
Get some Polyvisol baby vitamins or Save-A-Chick vitamins and electrolytes (better), and dose them up. They may be suffering from stress in shipping, so some others may get sick. The heat lamp should heat an area about 85-90 degrees and have a cooler spot they can get to in the brooder. They seem a little young for coccidiosis I think, especially if they haven't been on the ground or around other chickens yet.
 

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