Runt baby chick

[shotsnurse1]

My babies hatched yesterday. I have ten healthy. The last egg hatched all by itself. The chick came out with a bunch of thick blood tinged stuff which puddled on the bottom of the incubator. It had it's placenta still attached. I went to bed and left it in the incubator hoping it would dry and the placenta would naturally fall off....or it would die. One leg also is always behind it.

Woke this am to a not very fluffy baby (kind of sticky) with the placenta still on. I cut off the placenta. No bleeding. I pulled baby out of incubator and gave it a few drops of sugar water and tried to feed it scrambled egg yoke. I also used cotton balls to clean it off. I put it back into the incubator. I hope it dries better. It does scrabble around and chirps.

It did take some water.

Do I try to get it stronger? How do I do this? Is this leg thing common?

 

[shotsnurse1]

I am going to TSC now to get some save a chick stuff. It seems to be using that leg to push around better. I did some range of motion to it while I had it out.

Anyone ever have any luck keeping one separate? It is not standing and it is almost 12 hours old. It looks like it just hatched.....

As a nurse I will do whatever it takes. More later, but I could really use some help.

 

[bigchicken56]

I am afraind it might not make it but there always is a chance. Yes, keep it warm and make sure it has plenty of food and water. It might not have been possitioned right while incubating. It is either deformed or its leg is just out of the socket. Hope is lives a long happy life.

 

[shotsnurse1]

This baby was not viable. It was very sad for me. My first experience with chickens ever, 11 out of 24 eggs hatched. I know once we started this we became responsible. We had to cull this baby. By the end of the day I had decided on my own that it was suffering. My husband did the deed.