Chick and young chicken dying (after cold night)

[Kyle the duck]

The chick (Ghost) won't hardly eat and can barely drink. She can't stand by herself. She won't open her eyes. I'm not sure how to help her. She is in a brooder with a heat lamp but she has to share the heat lamp with the chicken in the box next to her. So it's probably not as warm as it needs to be.
The older chick/young chicken (Tiny Tim) is extremely close to death. We honestly thought she was dead. She can't lift her head. Her neck flops around everywhere when we move her like she has no control of it. She keeps having these spasms and flops around like crazy, but her neck is bending in ways it definitely shouldn't. We think her neck is broken. She can't open her eyes at all and can't eat at all. She has had like three drops of water but can't take any more. I'm very worried. She is sharing the heat lamp with the box next to her (where Ghost and two others are) so I don't know that she's getting enough heat.
I'm concerned, and I really want to save them both. Any suggestions?

UPDATE: Tiny Tim died, and Ghost is going backwards. She can't stand on her own anymore. She's very frail and lethargic.

UPDATE 2: Ghost died overnight. Thanks everyone for your help. I'll be sure to keep your suggestions in mind for any future issues with our chicks.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

What are you feeding your chicks?

Photos of poop?
Could be neurological, you can try giving vitamin therapy to see if that helps. 400IU Vitamin E and 1/4 tablet B-Complex daily. Give a treat of egg to eat as well.
Keep her hydrated and offer wet chick starter.

What is the temperature in your brooder?

 

[crowcrash]

Sorry about Tim Did your chicky make it through the night?

I can't say this would always work but here's my recent experience. In my last batch I had a chick near death, cold and getting trampled. I wrapped her in a heat pad on low (mimicking a mama's wing), it was a cheap one from Walgreens that I had to reset every two hours, and put her in a box with low sides. I didn't have anything like nutridrench, so through the night I'd put a drop of sugar water on her beak, if she'd take it in I would give her another drop. Once she started fighting I gave her droplets of water with wet cat food in it. She was still weak when she wanted to go back with the other chicks but once she was walking again, I couldn't keep her in the heat pad. Today she is thriving.

 

[NatJ]

...has to share the heat lamp with the chicken in the box next to her. So it's probably not as warm as it needs to be....

You can check that with a thermometer. If the warmest area is warm enough, the rest of the space can be cool and it's not a problem (so long as the weak chick isn't huddling in a cold corner.)

With normal, healthy chicks you can generally tell by their behavior whether the temperature is right, but of course with sick or weak ones that does not work as well, so that's when you need the thermometer.

 

[Kyle the duck]

What are you feeding your chicks?

Photos of poop?
Could be neurological, you can try giving vitamin therapy to see if that helps. 400IU Vitamin E and 1/4 tablet B-Complex daily. Give a treat of egg to eat as well.
Keep her hydrated and offer wet chick starter.

What is the temperature in your brooder?

The chick died overnight. Thank you so much for the advice. I'll be sure to keep it in mind for future reference.

 

[Kyle the duck]

Sorry about Tim Did your chicky make it through the night?

I can't say this would always work but here's my recent experience. In my last batch I had a chick near death, cold and getting trampled. I wrapped her in a heat pad on low (mimicking a mama's wing), it was a cheap one from Walgreens that I had to reset every two hours, and put her in a box with low sides. I didn't have anything like nutridrench, so through the night I'd put a drop of sugar water on her beak, if she'd take it in I would give her another drop. Once she started fighting I gave her droplets of water with wet cat food in it. She was still weak when she wanted to go back with the other chicks but once she was walking again, I couldn't keep her in the heat pad. Today she is thriving.

Thank you so much for the advice. Ghost died overnight, but I'll remember this for the future.

 

[Kyle the duck]

You can check that with a thermometer. If the warmest area is warm enough, the rest of hte space can be cool and it's not a problem (so long as the weak chick isn't huddling in a cold corner.)

With normal, healthy chicks you can generally tell by their behavior whether the temperature is right, but of course with sick or weak ones that does not work as well, so that's when you need the thermometer.

Thank you! Ghost didn't make it through the night, but I'll keep this in mind for the future.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I'm sorry.