My little brother recently went to a farm house with my dad. It’s owned by a friend of my dad’s. While there, he saw them killing runt baby chicks. (know it’s runt because he asked why are u kill killing them and they said it’s because the chicks were too small.)
My brother originally picked up two of them but one died on the way back to our place.
The problem? We live in an apartment so we can’t get another chick. I ordered a brooder but it’s not arriving until tomorrow. we’ve been keeping this chick warm with blankets.
She’s sleeps in a cardboard box with a blanket and stays on the bottom half of our budgie cage (it had two sections, we selected the sections with a net.. The budgies and her get along okay and don’t harm each other (they like to look
for food together.)
The chick keeps YELLING at random times and I don’t know how to comfort it.
In the three days we had it, it developed a Crop (had to use backyard chicken to find that out).
The chick constantly wants to stay out the cage. I’ve been feeding it dried mealworms, with some lettuce, basil seeds and a few other veggies (chopped really finely).
I genuinely don’t know what to do. Once the brooder comes, I’ll see if there’s a difference in her behavior but so far, idk what to do.
Please please please help!! Let me know if I should give him away or keep him and what I should do if I keep him.
My brother originally picked up two of them but one died on the way back to our place.
The problem? We live in an apartment so we can’t get another chick. I ordered a brooder but it’s not arriving until tomorrow. we’ve been keeping this chick warm with blankets.
She’s sleeps in a cardboard box with a blanket and stays on the bottom half of our budgie cage (it had two sections, we selected the sections with a net.. The budgies and her get along okay and don’t harm each other (they like to look
for food together.)
The chick keeps YELLING at random times and I don’t know how to comfort it.
In the three days we had it, it developed a Crop (had to use backyard chicken to find that out).
The chick constantly wants to stay out the cage. I’ve been feeding it dried mealworms, with some lettuce, basil seeds and a few other veggies (chopped really finely).
I genuinely don’t know what to do. Once the brooder comes, I’ll see if there’s a difference in her behavior but so far, idk what to do.
Please please please help!! Let me know if I should give him away or keep him and what I should do if I keep him.
