Plot Wars: A Chick Tragedy

Today, a chick died.

We don't really know the cause of death. We only have our speculations.

After housing the chicks on Saturday night, everything was fine. We were happy that we are able to provide shelter and food for our new responsibilities: the 7 chicks.

On Sunday morning, we were greeted with chirps from chicks asking for food, and we obliged.

When I left the house that morning, all 7 of them were eating. When I got back mid-afternoon, one of the chicks have his head tuck under his wing and he was not moving. I thought that he was just asleep. But when I fed them again in the evening, he was still in the same spot.

Thinking now that there is something horribly wrong with it, I tried to force-fed it with water and feeds, to no avail. So I did the next thing worth doing, I added a box inside the coop and layered it with rags, then I placed the chick inside the box thinking that it must have been cold and was not shared with warmth by the other chicks. The other chicks huddled together the night before when they slept, I am not sure if this chick joined the brood since it was an outsider.

Doing all this, I slept and was awaken with the news that the chick did not survive the night.

Because we think that it was the cold weather that killed the chick, we decided to transfer the coop to the back of the house where a more secure protection from elements is provided by the walls of the house for them. So now, they are at the backyard with an additional box and lots of blankets to huddle in the night.

Let's hope that this precaution is effective and that we do not lose another one.


Daghang salamat sa pagbasa!!!