Every year around this time, new chick owners get wildly concerned about a swollen lump on a chick's chest, not realizing that it's the crop and chicks can have very full crops due to some individuals being very much like little pigs.
As long a a chick is running around, eating and drinking and pooping, it's probably just fine. A chick that's in trouble will be stationary, perhaps teetering and unbalanced, or even prone. Eyes will be red-rimmed or half closed, beak agape, perhaps chirping loudly.
If you don't have coconut oil, get some first chance you get. It's in the cooking aisle with the cooking oils. Get the kind that is unrefined and still tastes like coconut if you can, but any will do as long as it's solid and not the liquid kind.
It's a fine thing to always have in a chicken first aid kit along with Poultry Nutri-drench. Don't skimp. These two items are indispensable and can save a chick's life.
As long a a chick is running around, eating and drinking and pooping, it's probably just fine. A chick that's in trouble will be stationary, perhaps teetering and unbalanced, or even prone. Eyes will be red-rimmed or half closed, beak agape, perhaps chirping loudly.
If you don't have coconut oil, get some first chance you get. It's in the cooking aisle with the cooking oils. Get the kind that is unrefined and still tastes like coconut if you can, but any will do as long as it's solid and not the liquid kind.
It's a fine thing to always have in a chicken first aid kit along with Poultry Nutri-drench. Don't skimp. These two items are indispensable and can save a chick's life.
