Yesterday I went to my local country max store and they had chicks (I have a friend who works there and gave me the heads up on a delivery of chicks with spare EE! )
Yesterday and this morning everyone seemed to be doing fine, I came home from the horse barn and found one of the chicks laying out, I honestly thought it had been squished in one of the bunching piles they do. Picked it up, still breathing. I got it to eat a small amount of plain yogurt off it's beak and got it to drink about .02 ml of water with ACV from a syringe. I have removed it from the flock and have it on my couch, on a thermal shirt with a space heater pointed at it on high.
Will not open eyes, will respond to touch, sometimes peeps at me.
Thoughts?
Edit notes: looking at this chicks feet I think that it may have been an early hatcher. The feet are bunched up and do not extend properly when the chick tries to stand.
Yesterday and this morning everyone seemed to be doing fine, I came home from the horse barn and found one of the chicks laying out, I honestly thought it had been squished in one of the bunching piles they do. Picked it up, still breathing. I got it to eat a small amount of plain yogurt off it's beak and got it to drink about .02 ml of water with ACV from a syringe. I have removed it from the flock and have it on my couch, on a thermal shirt with a space heater pointed at it on high.
Will not open eyes, will respond to touch, sometimes peeps at me.
Thoughts?
Edit notes: looking at this chicks feet I think that it may have been an early hatcher. The feet are bunched up and do not extend properly when the chick tries to stand.
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