Sugar water

[Chickiebabyfluff]

How much sugar do you put into a quart jar for the chickie babies and how long do you keep them on the sugar water mix?

 

[mljohnson05]

Why are you wanting to do this...is something wrong that we can help you out on further or are you doing it just because?

 

[clairabean]

I don't use sugar water unless I have a problem chick. Healthy chicks do not need sugar water.


I just hatched a chicky with the umbilical stub not healed. She bleed out a lot and was very weak. I fed her sugar water (about 1tsp per litre) and she perked up nicely. A week later it is very hard to tell which chick I found in a pool of her own blood. She is right as rain nwo!

 

[mljohnson05]

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Yup and still then I use vitamin or electrolyte water...that is why i was asking why she was wanting to use sugar

 

[Chickiebabyfluff]

someone told me to put sugar in their water if they have pasty butts

 

[mljohnson05]

I have never done that....all sugar water is going to do is give them a sugar rush (like it would a child).
Pasty bottom is to be cleaned off ASAP....if it does not come of easy, then take a warm wash rage and hold it on the chicks bottom until it becomes loose and then pull off the poop. Sometimes the down will have to be trimmed around the Vent area (if you do so be VERY careful not to cut them ).

If the chick acts sleep or weak, then give them save-a-chick or use vitamin or electrolytes in their water.....
Also feel tier bottom to make sure they are not Impacted with poop.....feel for a hard knot in the bottom vent area...if impacted...soak their belly and vent area in a warm bath (then make sure to blow dry them on low setting until dry. a small amount of oil can me put on a q-tip then applied to outside and slightly inside the vent area.

 

[Chickiebabyfluff]

ah ok ty ty for the info

 

[Smittenroade]

and for those who don't have save-a-chick or electrolytes, sugar is a last alternative...