Goosey Lucy Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Help! Because I keep hens a friend has just arrived with a young pheasant chick. It is alert and cheeping. I have put it in a tubtrug with a layer of hemcore, a shallow dish of water & marbles and a dish of chick crumb. She found it running up and down the main road oblivious to the traffic. It is running around the trug cheeping for all it is worth. How do I 1) get it to drink? 2) get it to eat? 3) keep it alive? My head tells me it is not going to make it but I want to give it every chance I can. I do not have a brooder or heat lamp but have an anglepoise lamp I use for sewing if I need to keep it warm. The chap in the feed merchants told me it should be fine without heat but I'm not sure. I'm guessing its 2-3 days old at most. edited to add picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey Lucy Posted June 4, 2010 Author Share Posted June 4, 2010 Well the chick has survived the night. I've been trying to give it water by dipping a cotton bud and wiping its beak. I've also tried dipping its beak into a shallow dish of water. It won't eat the chick crumb, I also made it into a liquid and tried to get some into it the same as the water. I've tried to tempt it with some tiny wriggly worms I found under the potato planters but it isn't interested. Anyone have any bright ideas? I just wish my friend had left it where she found it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey Lucy Posted June 4, 2010 Author Share Posted June 4, 2010 Chick didn't make it Couldn't get it to take any food. I wish it had stayed with its mum. RIP littl'un Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellykelly Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Awww -poor little chick. You tried your best, but some things are just not meant to be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
