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Ty. She’s not eating or drinking. I put wet food in with her yesterday and electrolytes in her water. The only thing that felt different on her was her back lower end felt squishy.

Ty. She’s not eating or drinking. I put wet food in with her yesterday and electrolytes in her water. The only thing that felt different on her was her back lower end felt squishy.

My one year old Americauna isolated herself. I saw an egg nearby her. She was in the hay barn that we never really go to. I went back a few hours later to check on her. We got close and she didn’t run away. Then she didn’t move away when I went to pick her up. I was carrying her and she just...

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I’m confused bc it looks barred, but has the hen coloring

I’ve been trying to look online and determine if this one also is a rooster :( Can you see it well enough to tell? This is all the same one a few weeks apart.

Ok. Ty!

This Black Star chick is 3 weeks old. She’s the only one of the three with these bumps/bald spots. Does anyone know what Is going on with her? Thank you so much!

I see. I don’t have a thermometer in there, but will get one. Ty

Ty!

Lol, my older ones (May 1st hatching) loved the ice, and frozen corn & peas, but the smaller ones (May 11th hatching) didn’t even try the ice. I didn’t think to make ice cubes with the electrolytes water! And adding blueberries! Great idea! Ty!

We actually had the entire side of the coop open. The doors are five feet wide. We have that covered with chicken wire that can be moved for us to do what we need to. We have electrolytes in the water. We don’t have the run completed, so the coop floor is wood (no dirt). We brought them back...

Having same problem here near San Antonio. Pretty much no breeze today. Just put my chicks out there yesterday. I’m going to apply ppl’s suggestions and as ice to another water source.

Thank you so much!! I think we will have to add windows. I guess we would just need to make covers for them for when it’s winter weather? We are going to put hardware cloth around the stilts leaving an extra foot along the ground against predators digging. Also will cover the run with hardware...