Please help! My baby chick is almost dead!

[rancher hicks]

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How do you know it's not healthy for them? I don't believe in magic. A few days of sugar water after receiveing shipped chicks can't hurt and may help. In 14 months I've lost one chick and I've raised quite a few. Better to make every effort to have success than just say "oh well sometimes they just die". Quick pick me up my foot.

 

[CorralitosSunflower]

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How do you know it's not healthy for them? I don't believe in magic. A few days of sugar water after receiveing shipped chicks can't hurt and may help. In 14 months I've lost one chick and I've raised quite a few. Better to make every effort to have success than just say "oh well sometimes they just die". Quick pick me up my foot.

If you could find ANY information backing up supplemental sugar as a regular part of a birds diet as being healthy than I will stand corrected. I believe you read and misunderstood my posting, no need to be rude about it. I would like to clear a few things up. I know it is not healthy for them because refined sugar is not within any chickens natural diet. It does however give a boost of energy which may be exactly what a shipped chick needs in order to move around, eat, drink and recover from the stress. You could also call this a "quick pick me up". I did not say it would not be beneficial only that it is not a magical cure, you don't believe in magic so I don't see any disagreement here? And second, HE ALREADY LOST THE BABY. I said NOTHING to even hint that I didn't think she should do everything in her power to save it. Sometimes you do everything you can and it still is not enough. We have all had sad moments with our birds and knowing it is not your fault and you did everything you could to save it is comforting in those times. I am so not the person who doesn;t care enough to try any and everything to help ANY creature really. So I am greatly offended by your comment. To make such a curt short assessment of someone else in such a way is nothing but hurtful. I have been a vegetarian by choice my entire life and have always been the child who adopted the injured bird, or adult who stops in the middle of traffic to catch a stray.
I think your foot needs to find another place to be put......