Very weak shipped chick?

[Dona Worry]

Perhaps adding a touch of honey to what you are feeding to her? Might give her a boost of energy she needs to get past whatever is troubling her. I hope she gets better for you. I'll be thinking about her today. Let us know how shes doing.

Good idea. She ate a fair amount of her egg yolk mash, I held it low to the ground to she had to practice leaning forward to get it. She is terribly off balance.
I gave her a few drops of water from my finger tip too. She seemed fairly contented.

 

[muddy75]

i had a bad chick in my bunch.....my recommendation would be to keep giving vitamins/electrolytes and as much tlc as possible without separating from the group. mine little handicapped guy has now made it to 7 weeks but i still worry about him because he’s still half the size of my others. he gets plenty of food and water and gets out of the coop by himself but i still have to put him in every night before or after the other chicks go in. i’m seriously considering putting him back in the brooder if my eggs hatch halloween because he doesn’t seem to be handling the falling temps very well. it’s very difficult having a sick/weak baby!

. you may want to let hatchery know as well....in my case they refunded for him even though he survived.

 

[LoveMyChickenBabies]

It sounds like it could be a neurological problem. It's like her brain is telling her that her center of balance is here but really is somewhere else.

My other theory is her eyesight is bad so she sees that the food is to her left or something when really it is right in front of her.

Good luck!

 

[Dona Worry]

It sounds like it could be a neurological problem. It's like her brain is telling her that her center of balance is here but really is somewhere else.

My other theory is her eyesight is bad so she sees that the food is to her left or something when really it is right in front of her.

Good luck!

It looks neurological to me as well...

 

[Wyorp Rock]

It could be neurological, but I would try some Vitamin E and B vitamins.
I know you gave her Nutri-Drench which I think is great for chicks, but it lacks B2 (Riboflavin).
Get some human B-Complex vitamins and crush up 1/4 tablet and add it to her egg mixture along with 400IU vitamin E , give this to her for a few days and if that makes a difference.

 

[Dona Worry]

It could be neurological, but I would try some Vitamin E and B vitamins.
I know you gave her Nutri-Drench which I think is great for chicks, but it lacks B2 (Riboflavin).
Get some human B-Complex vitamins and crush up 1/4 tablet and add it to her egg mixture along with 400IU vitamin E , give this to her for a few days and if that makes a difference.

Excellent idea! She had started to eat and drink independently, but is still tiptoed and wibbly, so I'll give this a try!

 

[LoveMyChickenBabies]

Good luck!

 

[Kylo_Hen!]

Some new chicks just arrived yesterday via the mail, and 3 of the 4 are doing great! Eating, drinking, running about, very active little biddies.
One, however, seems to be struggling a lot more than I think she should. She came out of the box noticeably weak, so I gave her a drop of nutridrench, showed her where the water was, and tucked her under the light.
However, after a couple of hours, she was cheeping in distress--the only chick to do so-- and still vert weak. I also noticed she has a strange posture, like she is leaning forward and standing on tip toes. I brought her in, cozied her up in a box with a hot water bottle a d syringe fed her an egg yolk 'soup' made from mashed hard boiled egg yolk, nutridrench, and a bit of chick feed because I accidentally put too much water in. After a bit of that she perked up and started trying to peck, so I added another mashed egg yolk to the whole mess and fed her as much as she would eat.
I put her back with her sisters, but she is still wonky. She is able to peck--just-- but her coordination is off, and she is likely to topple over forward. She still stands extremely upright and on her tiptoes. She did not lie down scattered about under the light like the rest, but every time I checked she was standing directly beneath it on her tip toes.
She is the only one I haven't seen drink independently, although her crop was full this morning and I did see her eating.

Any ideas? Is this a nutritional problem, neurological problem, other?
She is a cream legbar, of course the most expensive chick I bought....
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yes give her lots of electrolight water to give her a boost