What to do if a baby chick is very weak?

Answer 1

Set up a box with a small plate of Chick Crumbles (crumbled high protein Chicken food) and a shallow dish of water. You can put some hay or straw at one end to form a "nest" area. Using a 60w-75w lamp suspended over one end of the box (where the nest is) you are creating a "Brooding Box" - providing warmth and food and a safe area. Change the water and food every day and over the next few week introduce some green foods and other crumbs and scraps. Once they have about half their "hard feathers" - I start putting them outside for short stints in an enclosed cage with no bottom to allow them scratch and learn about the big outdoors. (You can use a bird cage with the bottom tray removed for this initially - put a brick on top to stop it being knocked over!) As their hard feather develop, so does their palate and you can start giving them other foods such as wheat and grains to try. By about 8 weeks of age you can probably put them in with "big" chooks - but keep an eye on them as they are probably bonded to you and may prefer to hang out with their human parent!

Answer 2

If you find a baby chick with out its mother, take it inside, put it in a large card board box with newspaper on the bottom, don't use a shoe box. Get a light source that produces heat and hang it above the box. DO NOT PUT IT ON THE BOX, this is a fire hazard, and your chick will get too hot. Get a chick waterer and feeder, you can buy this at a farm or feed store. Don't give your chick water from a dish, it can drown. Also, get chick starter crumble. This is filled with protein and with little calcium. Don't feed the chick calcium!!! Calcium is poisonous to baby chicks and, in large doses like the calcium level in layer feed, will KILL your chick. Take that stuff home. Fill the feeder with the crumble. Fill the waterer with WARM water. Not hot or cold. If you have a water softener, don't use tap water. Keep the card board box at a stable temperature of 90 degrees Fahrenheit. put clean newspaper in every week. And lower the temp by 5 degrees Fahrenheit for each week of life. You can tell if your chick is too hot by it staying near the walls of the box, away from the heat source. If your chick is too cold, it will stay right under the light. If your chick is too hot or cold, lower the heat source if its cold, raise the heat source if its hot.

If the chick appears sick or injered, take it to a vet that specializes in birds.

Answer 3

Depending on how old it is it will need a heat (usually a IR lamp) source and food and drink but should survive fine if protected from dangers like other grown hens and animals

Answer 4

give the mother food and the chick will follow and make sure the food is grinded up pieces of corn not ordinary corn

Answer 5

feed it, keep it warm and let it fight it's own battle :/

Answer 6

We feed chicks a product called chick starter. This food is similar to regular chicken feed but it is ground finer. Small morsels that are easy to swallow and digest.