Special Needs Chick Need Help ASAP

[Mary Galbraith]

I'm sure with some care, this chick will turn out great! If you try the textured floor, let me know how it works out. I agree with the above poster, the chick will need lots of interaction from you or else it will get lonely. Let me know how this works out!

I'm defiantly going to try the textured floor and I'll let you know how it goes thank you.

 

[TropicalBabies]

I'm defiantly going to try the textured floor and I'll let you know how it goes thank you.

How is it going with your little chick? Did the textured floor help at all?
My hen rejected her chicks when they hatched... actually they were not her eggs, she went broody and I stole some eggs from another hen (worked b4 and she was a great mom) who was sitting on the last bloodline of a rooster I loved, but who was just killed a few weeks ago. I caught my hen almost in time... the casualties were, one dead, one severely damaged, one whole and one still in the egg but close to hatching. The hen was pecking at the chicks as I was taking them out of the nest, her beak was all bloody and I was absolutely scrambling to get the chick and egg to safety. I actually thought that two chicks were dead... I heard the dead chirping at 10 pm. as I was going to bed, thinking it was one of the local feral chicks separated from mom, I went out to check and LO!!!! There she was deserving all the effort i could put into her. A little miracle.
The "Dreaded Pirate Makapo" is doing well. I keep her inside to sleep in a warm nest of heating pads and give her water through a syringe and put her in the brooder to eat and play with siblings off and on during the day. She is over a week old now and I feel we have made it through the bad stuff. I am hopeful that she could have partial sight in one eye. The siblings (and 1 adopted feral chick) have not pecked at her, they seem to like her and therefor like me a little better too but I keep a close ear and eye on things. We are doing this one day at a time. I honestly did not expect her to make it through the first night she was so brutalized and i thought of culling her a few times and would have if i though all was lost. But she is getting better and stronger every day often shocking the heck out of me with her resilience. I will raise her separate from flock, maybe with a companion. I think she can eat crumble fine, i'll just have to get a nipple waterier, she took to the syringe so well.
Please let me know what worked and what did not and frankly any of your story. I'm glad you did not automatically want to cull. You never know... ya know. God can take them in his time, not mine.