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Urgent! Home Made Brooder Needed!

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hi all can someone please show me how i can make a homemade or for anyone in wagga could i please borrow one brooder as my one day old baby is not getting fed my the hen and i think she is sitting on it to hard and squashing it

thank you

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hi all can someone please show me how i can make a homemade or for anyone in wagga could i please borrow one brooder as my one day old baby is not getting fed my the hen and i think she is sitting on it to hard and squashing it

thank you

Hi Blake can't help with brooder but does your hen have other chick's or is this the first? I had similar problem a few days ago chick was gasping when I found it. I drip fed it 2-3 drops of sugar dissolved in warm water, it took this from eyedropper I put it back with hen, she had 2 other chicks, checked it a little while later and they had fed it. I've got 5 chick's now all doing well. Hope this help's a bit, others had suggested baby rice cereal for first feed it may encourage hen to feed it if it's a bit stronger. good luck with it.

hi all can someone please show me how i can make a homemade or for anyone in wagga could i please borrow one brooder as my one day old baby is not getting fed my the hen and i think she is sitting on it to hard and squashing it

thank you

Hi Blake can't help with brooder but does your hen have other chick's or is this the first? I had similar problem a few days ago chick was gasping when I found it. I drip fed it 2-3 drops of sugar dissolved in warm water, it took this from eyedropper I put it back with hen, she had 2 other chicks, checked it a little while later and they had fed it. I've got 5 chick's now all doing well. Hope this help's a bit, others had suggested baby rice cereal for first feed it may encourage hen to feed it if it's a bit stronger. good luck with it.

 

 

similar story for me. first time hen wouldnt feed her first chick and left it cold, i tied feeding it but i gave up, and gave it to foster hen..

 

It died :D

 

Sorry, cant help with the brooder, goodluck though

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