Mandy, Your chick was chilled from it's heat lamp going out. Do you have a broad spectrum antibiotic you could make up small, concentrated amounts for it and feed it teeny drops along with the vitamins and save a chick gel?
Cathryn rainbowsilkiesTM Michigan
From: Mandy <arkansashorsetrails@yahoo.com>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 11:48 AM
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Newly hatched chick falling to it's side
Baby chick is still alive and will drink some and peck at the food some. Still going sideways but staying upright a little longer. He/she is a fighter! Chirps good. I have 2 people that are wanting to buy guines from me if these hatch out and I need to replenish my guinea numbers as I'm now down to just 3. A couple of years ago the stupid birds sat on top of the barn roof while we had freezing rain then snow. They actually had icicles on them. I couldn't believe they didn't immediately die. However,their legs had frozen and the legs broke off at the upper joint. I lost 6 then. They easily could have gone in the barn & we had a heat lamp on the water in there to keep it from completely freezing.
Mandy
Mandy
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