Please help, it’s urgent

[starri33]

I found this link on the group

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/help-best-way-to-kill-a-sick-baby-chick.460271/

 

[Backyardchickenlover89]

I'm sorry about your chick
The vibrating is likely from injury/possibly neurological problem since she is only 3 weeks and there was an incident.
I would do as suggested by @WVduckchick get some Poultry Nutri-Drench and give her 2-3 drops direct dose daily.

I would not say she has Marek's.

I honestly feel like I caused him an injury, I’m going through a lot these days and had a million taughts running through my mind when I followed that stupid method, on my average day’s I would know better not to do something so stupid, what kind of injury do you think I might caused

I don’t have many poultry farms or stores near my house, the one thing I might have is Walmart, and local pharmacy

 

[WVduckchick]

I followed an article online that showed 2-3 description’s on sexing baby chicks, I followed a stupid method which is to hold the baby chick from the fur behind his neck, and checkout the feet, which I did ( big mistake )

It started to limp on one side which was to right, I felt so terrible and still do, it keeps opening his peck and closing again when I held him with a towel he was vibrating, not sure if it’s the pain I caused it or if it’s something else,

Ive done all I can since last night and made sure to keep watering its peck, adding sugar and water combination tried giving it a yolk, and still weak and nothing,

I’ve never understood the sugar water thing, I prefer vitamins. But that’s up to you.

I feel terrible for you, and this is a sad lesson to learn, but I can tell you are learning from it, so stop torturing yourself over it. We have likely all done things that have been accidentally harmful without knowing. I’m guilty too, multiple times!

And honestly, I would think a 3-week old chick could handle being held by the head for a few seconds. Granted it sounds cruel, but how many of us have seen little kids pick up chicks that way?

I hope it perks up for you today.

 

[Backyardchickenlover89]

Ok I don't really care about the gender either because I can just sell the roosters I know alot of nice people. I though since you were trying to tell the gender you may want a better way to know.

I was applying that to myself and people like myself who have made these horrible mistakes, not you, now i don’t care what their gender is anymore, their beautiful the way they are and you’ll be sure to know I wont be doing these testing on my other chicks or chicks in the future I own

 

[Backyardchickenlover89]

I’ve never understood the sugar water thing, I prefer vitamins. But that’s up to you.

I feel terrible for you, and this is a sad lesson to learn, but I can tell you are learning from it, so stop torturing yourself over it. We have likely all done things that have been accidentally harmful without knowing. I’m guilty too, multiple times!

And honestly, I would think a 3-week old chick could handle being held by the head for a few seconds. Granted it sounds cruel, but how many of us have seen little kids pick up chicks that way?

I hope it perks up for you today.

It could be a virus for all we know, it could be that another chick walked on her and dislocated something and I made it worse, I just can’t get over the fact that it happened because of my carelessness, also we as people go through a whole lot, we have our own battles in life, so I know this doesn’t make me a bad person, I hope god forgives me because I didn’t mean any harm, if by afternoon doesn’t get better I’ll clip his/her head off

 

[Backyardchickenlover89]

I’ve never understood the sugar water thing, I prefer vitamins. But that’s up to you.

I feel terrible for you, and this is a sad lesson to learn, but I can tell you are learning from it, so stop torturing yourself over it. We have likely all done things that have been accidentally harmful without knowing. I’m guilty too, multiple times!

And honestly, I would think a 3-week old chick could handle being held by the head for a few seconds. Granted it sounds cruel, but how many of us have seen little kids pick up chicks that way?

I hope it perks up for you today.

I’m going to continue checking on it and see how well it responds, I’ll continue to water it’s peak, get some electrolytes

 

[MissChick@dee]

It's not your fault it's the websites fault it told you the wrong thing. If you would like a better way to tell the chicks genders then you can use this method though it's not 100 percent. You flip them on their backs in your hand then wait for them to stop kicking their legs. A pullet will hold it's legs inward a young rooster will hold it's legs outward.

I have never heard of such a thing.

 

[WVduckchick]

I have never heard of such a thing.

Neither have I.

 

[aart]

I have never heard of such a thing.

I have....heard the on the back thing and the head holding thing...and other gender nonsense. At 5-6 weeks males will show their 'colors' (comb and wattles) pretty accurate with most breeds.

 

[MissChick@dee]

There should be a thread of “old wives tales” some are just silly some come from a lack of knowledge some from superstition.
We thankfully have a different way to pass on knowledge.