What’s wrong with my chick? (Pls help)

[Debbie292d]

A few day old chick without a constant and consistant heat might be having issues from that. It should be at 95F it's first week, and down 5 degrees per week from that point on.

It should be on chick crumbles and nothing else to eat than that.

Chicks learn to drink on their own from a waterer and if they don't seem to go there, you can dip their beak briefly so they know it's there.

 

[AshVau22]

Was the chick drinking on its own when you brought it home? Also what temperature is your brooder. Do you have pictures of your brooder set up?

 

[malirae]

A few day old chick without a constant and consistant heat might be having issues from that. It should be at 95F it's first week, and down 5 degrees per week from that point on.

It should be on chick crumbles and nothing else to eat than that.

Chicks learn to drink on their own from a waterer and if they don't seem to go there, you can dip their beak briefly so they know it's there.

I have dipped their beaks, but she just hasn’t gotten up at all to move or anything like the others, and there all learned how to eat and drink by themselves.

 

[Mvan42]

I have dipped their beaks, but she just hasn’t gotten up at all to move or anything like the others, and there all learned how to eat and drink by themselves.

Chicks also often don't need to eat or drink for a few days after hatching. The yolk sac they absorb has all the nutrients they need for around 3 days.

 

[malirae]

Was the chick drinking on its own when you brought it home? Also what temperature is your brooder. Do you have pictures of your brooder set up?

She seemed fine when we picked her up, she was chirping, walking, pecking, scratching at stuff on the ground, but like maybe an hour or two later she wasnt doing any of that. She’s the black one with the dot in the corner, she currently sitting on the heating pad, and we have a lid to keep the heating in. A heating lamp is just too hazardous for us right now unfortunately

 

[Mvan42]

How new are you to chickens? Can you post pictures of your brooder set up?
What kind of beeding do you have in the brooder?

The heat pad is it made for chicks or os it a regular heating pad for people?

 

[malirae]

Chicks also often don't need to eat or drink for a few days after hatching. The yolk sac they absorb has all the nutrients they need for around 3 days.

They are more than a few days old, and the others are eating and drinking already

 

[malirae]

How new are you to chickens? Can you post pictures of your brooder set up?
What kind of beeding do you have in the brooder?

The heat pad is it made for chicks or is it a regular heating pad for people?

We are using wood chips and the heating pad is made for chicks

 

[malirae]

I have done my research and have owned chickens and raised chicks for many years, just so y’all know, I’m not completely coming out of the blue for caring for chicks, I just never had one like this and there a few different things it could be and I need y’all’s help.

 

[AshVau22]

Have you tried maybe some electrolytes or rooster booster. I've never had to deal with impacted crops so I don't have much advice on that.