Pale chick

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Tengai
Posts: 68
Joined: Tue Apr 04, 2017 9:36 am
Location: Townsend, DE
Martin Colony History: 2017 first year

Newly hatched chicks in one of the houses one looks very pale. What’s up with that?
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Phil
Townsend DE
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Posts: 356
Joined: Thu Jun 08, 2017 2:26 pm
Location: Corpus Christi, TX
Martin Colony History: ................
2019: 11 pairs
2018: 11 pairs - 43 fledged
2017: 4 pairs - 17 fledged

That's a head-scratcher.

Bumping for knowledgeable folks to chime in.
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on suckin' till you do succeed." - Curly Howard
Kellye
Posts: 75
Joined: Mon Jul 11, 2016 11:21 am
Location: Kansas

I’ve got a few babies they look like that but not as pale. It could be a little dehydrated, maybe different coloration, like albino or something, it could be ill, or just fine. Have you seen it move? And eat? Or try to get food from you? If it’s still eating and pretty spunky then I would say it’s fine.
I did, a while back, have a baby that was kind of pale and then the next day it was more pink.
How many babies are in that nest?
It’s still alive right?
And do you if it is getting enough food? That can cause some paleness from what I’ve seen..
2015- 4 fledged
2016- 15 fledged
2017- 50 fledged
2018- 82 fledged
2019- 116 fledged
2020- 175 fledged
2021- 170 fledged
1 12 room Trendsetter, 1 18 gourd rack, 1 28 room Trendsetter house.
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