runt chick

[emwhit309]

I've been away for a long time so may be this question has been uniformly answered.
Because of hot whether I've just had one of two eggs hatch 30 hours before the other. The three day old chick is three times bigfger than the two day old chick, and that chick is not yet twice its size at hatching.
I am arfgaid that the small chick will die because it won't be able to compete for food in the nest. Is there something I can do to keep both chicks aliveuntil they fledge?
Thank you.

[Kwonger]

Yo E, unfortunately, the chick is at an age where it needs the crop milk produced by it's parents. But that is not to say you couldn't hand raise it. But that young.....it's not easy. Still in the past I have subsequently used K-Tee brand baby bird formula, (Originally for Cockateels.) and horribly used an eye dropper to feed. Babies grew to be nice and healthy.
I have also had eggs hatch a day apart with the same result, but at the time, my birds were utilizing two nest boxes. They had fledglings in one, and these newly consequently hatched in the other. So I kicked the fledglings out and placed one baby in one box, and one in the other. They did not have to compete for food with each other, so each got fed regular. The smaller one eventually got up to the same size as the other. The fledglings had to learn to eat on their own real fast!%^) Maybe this will help