Weeg
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Hey guys!
I hatched a lone chick recently, Early bird, and went to TSC to get her 5 more assorted bantam friends. She's a Cochin bantam. I ended up with 2 bantam Silkies, and 3 more I am currently trying to find the breed of. The White Sillkie doesn't seem to be doing well. While the others are skittering around, preening, eating, and doing few day old chick things, she's laying on her face. Completely on her chest and face. We though she may have been dead for a moment.
She's lethargic, and isn't untrusting of my hands like the others. I just treated her for pasty butt which she had pretty bad, and added electrolytes to the water. I also tried to get her to eat molasses off my finger, but she didn't get much in her.
I have seen her drink and eat a tiny bit, but mostly just stands at the feeder and waterer with the others. I'm feeding Organic Purina flock raiser. I'm hoping she'll start to make a comeback after being in those freezing stressful TSC brooders. They were all huddled under the heat source like they were freezing. I am currently using a heat lamp, but have a brooder plate coming tomorrow because of fire risk. If there are nay questions I haven't answered please so ask. Any ideas? Is it just from the stress of shipment, I know the shippement wasn't long ago, then the transition to bad quality brooders, pasty butt, and now the stress of another move? I hope she makes a come back! Anything else I can do for her?
I hatched a lone chick recently, Early bird, and went to TSC to get her 5 more assorted bantam friends. She's a Cochin bantam. I ended up with 2 bantam Silkies, and 3 more I am currently trying to find the breed of. The White Sillkie doesn't seem to be doing well. While the others are skittering around, preening, eating, and doing few day old chick things, she's laying on her face. Completely on her chest and face. We though she may have been dead for a moment.
She's lethargic, and isn't untrusting of my hands like the others. I just treated her for pasty butt which she had pretty bad, and added electrolytes to the water. I also tried to get her to eat molasses off my finger, but she didn't get much in her.
I have seen her drink and eat a tiny bit, but mostly just stands at the feeder and waterer with the others. I'm feeding Organic Purina flock raiser. I'm hoping she'll start to make a comeback after being in those freezing stressful TSC brooders. They were all huddled under the heat source like they were freezing. I am currently using a heat lamp, but have a brooder plate coming tomorrow because of fire risk. If there are nay questions I haven't answered please so ask. Any ideas? Is it just from the stress of shipment, I know the shippement wasn't long ago, then the transition to bad quality brooders, pasty butt, and now the stress of another move? I hope she makes a come back! Anything else I can do for her?
