Vent blocked.

[Sylviaanne]

I went to check on him again shortly after I posted the above. He had died.

Thank you for posting TiffanyKim. I just didn't know how to do it with chicks. I have Yorkies, some of whom go down with low blood sugar and have learned how to keep them alive but I was afraid to try what I know with a tiny little chick for just the reason you stated. I didn't want to drown it. My temptation was to put the syringe in the beak.

enola: I'm not sure what happened with him, failure to thrive could be it or possibly when he got that pasty butt, it just upset his tummy so he didn't want anything to eat or drink. I get that sometimes on the meds they give me.

Anyone else wanting to post a home remedy is welcome to do so. I have one incubator still running and one batch of eggs coming to me in the mail. After the eggs in the mail hatch, I won't put any more in the incubator until next year. I assume this is bound to happen again so, please, post away. Sylvia

 

[enola]

Sorry to hear he passed......

 

[Sylviaanne]

Thank you. He was terribly sweet but it might only have been because he was sick.

 

[Cuatro Pollos]

Sorry to hear about your chick passing. I had one with very similar symptoms, at about the same age. She made it for a week and a half, with help, but in the end she died. It was hard to take, but I was told that sometimes they just don't make it. "Failure to thrive" was the term used for my dead chick. I was just happy that it wasn't something infectious and spread through my other chicks. I feel that I did everything I could. I'm sure you did, too.

 

[dheltzel]

I went to check on him again shortly after I posted the above. He had died.

I've had chicks die and always makes me feel bad, like I could have done something more. This is a part of keeping chickens, especially when you are hatching your own, many thing can go wrong, not all of them your fault or something you can fix.

I wish I could tell you it won't happen again, it might, but keep hatching, the majority will thrive and if you ate the eggs instead of hatching them, they would have never had a chance at life. At least that's what I tell myself.

 

[Sylviaanne]

That baby was one of the 37 that I "cooked" at 106 for several hours before I caught it. Today another died and it's little crop was empty too. There are 7 more and they all have food in their crops so hopefully no more will die.

We got an empty syringe and fed it a little sugar water but I guess by the time I saw it was in trouble, it was too little, too late. My husband usually has magic hands that really bring animals back from the brink but like I said, must have been too late.