What is wrong with this chick? Arrested development?

[mrslb333]

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X 2 Prepare for the worst but hope for the best

 

[magicpigeon]

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X 2 Prepare for the worst but hope for the best

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[chickenpiedpiper]

Ah ha! We have a new symptom that the others have never displayed! This is good. He cant stand up today, his feet are curled up under him like when they are in the egg!

This must be a deficiency of some sort. I have just given him a breakfast of crumbles and yolk, and he dove right into it, I am going to go and cunsult the chicken health handbook, and see what I can find out.

Thanks every one!

 

[chickenpiedpiper]

Well, the book was not much help, but this morning the little guy is back up on his feet, and again loved the yolk covered crumbles. I dont have any vita chick handy, I thought I did, but cant find it, guess I am going to the feed store for some Vet RX. If it is a deficiency, that should really help.

No more treats for this group, no bread or oats or greens, no matter how much they love em.

Thanks again!

 

[PepsNick]

I read of this on here a few months ago about a BR that did the same thing. Just so strange. Sometimes something goes wrong in hatching and it just happens.

 

[halo]

I get one of these every now and again, maybe 1 in 200 chicks. I just call it failure to thrive. Unfortunately, mine always die. I dont know what causes it, just something in their make up that doesnt allow them to develop.

 

[Judy]

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This is what I was thinking as I read this thread. There is failure to thrive, and there are runts. I take the terms to mean, runts are just small in size, similar to short people. Failure to thrive is more of a defect, perhaps in ability to digest certain foods, who knows what. It is not an unusual diagnosis in elderly people when they continue to eat normally but lose weight anyway.

 

[Cass]

I had a Mallard (from farm store) that had "failure to thrive". The local bird expert at the store told me that sometimes they sustain a spinal cord injury, either in transit or in the incubator...she alluded to them being stepped on by other birds...as kind as she was about telling me about my bird's problem, she didn't hold out much hope for it obtaining maturity. She was right. It did have a small growth sprit at about 4 weeks, but died at 7 weeks, 2 days before we were going to put the group outside in the pond. We buried the little one by the pond so it would be with it's brood mates....

I am sorry your little one isn't doing well. It may pull through, but if it doesn't it sounds like you have given it the best time you could in it's short life.