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2 day old chick can't stand

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Xalla · 30/05/2013 19:51

Hi there

We've hatched some eggs in an incubator because fox got Mum. One hatched and was fine. The second hatched but didn't seem to be able to get out of his egg and lay in the incubator for a couple of hours.

Eventually we moved him in with his brother who hours after hatching was hopping around and chirping noisily. This little one is still just lying under the warming lamp though.

We're feeding him sugar water with a syringe but he falls asleep mid-feed. I keep thinking he's died Sad but then he starts moving again.

He can't stand at all and when he tries, he ends up stuck on his back. Not sure what to do. Can anyone help?

Thank you!

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Nombrechanger · 31/05/2013 00:02

I had a little chick like that once and it didn't make it through the night. :(

www.backyardchickens.com/t/464150/baby-chick-not-moving

Xalla · 31/05/2013 05:34

I think we might lose this one. I've just come downstairs and he's obviously been lying on his side all night - he's all squished down one side..

Will keep giving sugar water and try some baby vitamins too.

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Nombrechanger · 31/05/2013 18:41

How's he doing this evening?

Poor little thing. He is lucky to have you looking after him.

mummymeister · 31/05/2013 23:30

Can I be really brutally honest? He isn't going to make it. if he doesn't have the energy to stand now then he isn't going to. I know it sounds like I am a horrible person but feeding him etc is just prolonging his agony. chicks are very fragile, lots of them don't make it and I think he is sadly one of them. please let him go quietly.

Xalla · 04/06/2013 05:35

He went to chicken heaven on Saturday. Poor little thing.

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