Saving chickens

[Cecilia808]

So recently I've been saving baby chicks around my house and out all that I've saved 4 of them had made it throught but I've had a couple that had passed.

Recently I saved/found a baby chick (who possibly just made 1 week) on my door step and took it in and tried to help raise it. Today however, I had noticed when I came home from work my baby's energy had dropped alot. She is very limp and laying on one side.

I've been nervous for the past few hours because previously when I saved other baby chicks they showed the same symptoms before they have died hours before they have taken their last breath (I've actually had a couple chicks die in my hands as I tried to save them)

I was just curious on how & is it possible to help save them?

 

[Lovem all]

Do they have a heat lamp? How's their eating and drinking? How does her crop feel? Is she chirping? Where did you find them? How long have you had her?

 

[Eggcessive]

Where do you live that you find baby chicks outside your house? Are there wild chickens having broods on their own?

 

[Cecilia808]

Do they have a heat lamp? How's their eating and drinking? How does her crop feel? Is she chirping? Where did you find them? How long have you had her?

Yes I have a heat lamp, I was at work but she wasn't eating when I came home, barely was chirping, she was found on my door steps, and 1 week. Sadly she did pass about 2 hours ago.

 

[Lovem all]

I'm so sorry. Was she laying down? I was thinking impacted crop. Was her vent clear? It could have been that too

 

[Cecilia808]

Where do you live that you find baby chicks outside your house? Are there wild chickens having broods on their own?

I live in Hawaii surrounded by macadamia nut trees, this little one was on my door step and my brother was the one who saw her and I picked her and brought her into the house. They are wild chickens that are running around my house but as a animal lover I couldn't leave the chick on it's own.

 

[Cecilia808]

I'm so sorry. Was she laying down? I was thinking impacted crop. Was her vent clear? It could have been that too

Her vent was clear thats what I thought it was at first, but I only noticed how her energy changed from how she was yesterday to today it was like she just completely shut down. My grandma who I asked to watch her while I was at work said she wouldn't stop crying all day yesterday but today she was very quiet and they thought she was dead.

 

[cooingdove]

awe poor chicky sorry about that.

 

[Cecilia808]

awe poor chicky sorry about that.

It's okay I just wish I caught it earlier and knew what to do, I couldn't tell if it was a stroke or if was the temperature or a illness that she had and I couldn't tell. I'm just glad I made some memories with her in her first week she was so small I feel like she was just a hatchling when I found her on my doorstep.

 

[Eggcessive]

Sorry for your loss. Since she got separate from her broody hen, she may have had something wrong with her internally.