ok, my friend and chicken partner in crime, got 4 baby bantys last friday and then asks me if i can babysit them while he goes to florida for a week! Of course being the sucker I am, I said yes. so the day before I'm to get them, he tells me one of the four died, a bantam polish. So I get the three remaining chicks and he says oh by the way, this one doesn't seem to be doing too well, just keep an eye on her. I said I hope she doesn't die on my watch and he said well, if she did I shouldn't feel guilty. Well of course I would. So, the other two, another polish and a cochin, are running around the brooder, chasing each other, eating and doing all the normal chick things and the one Araucana banty is just standing there. I researched a few threads here and decided to hold her because her feet were cold, and i figured that probably means that she is cold! I held her in the palm of my hand against my stomach with a face cloth over her and she conked out, really sleeping soundly. when she woke up I tried to give her some plain yogurt (nope), chick starter crumbles (yes!) and agave nectar water (yes again)
. I put her in a pet carrier with a heating pad on low with a towel over it, is a heating pad o.k.? I have it on low. the whole time she's been here she's been like "crying." The peeping is much more plaintive than the others and now that I've been holding her for hours I don't want to give her back when my friend arrives home in a week! Am I doing all I can for her? I put her chick starter and agave water in the pet carrier.
