From at least one chick in the brooder, 6 days old. Last night and today. They all seem healthy, are feathering out and seem to all be eating and drinking. (Full disclosure: they are almost all solid yellow, it's hard to keep track of them when I'm observing.) Acting normal except for this.
If...
I've been trying to get my chicks used to being outside by taking them out for a few minutes and increasing the time every day. I always wait until the temperature is warm and move them to a chicken wired pen in the yard to watch them. However, every time I bring them out they act traumatized...
It looks like (sorry) melted chocolate and it's way more than every tenth poop. It's not cecals, which I'm becoming familiar with. I had just started slowly switching them from MannaPro medicated starter feed to Purina Start & Grow, using half and half. I saw on another thread that this has been...
I joined Back Yard Herd in February and have really enjoyed that site - it didn't take me long to realize I was missing out by not joining BYC. We're aspiring market growers building up an acre and a half in East TN with two dairy does ready to breed this fall, two beehives, and an overly...
I had a lavender ameraucana pip but not hatch. And, 24 hours later I was going to go in and help it, But another baby hatched, so I couldn't open the incubator. Eight more hours later, I checked to see if the Ameraucana was dead, but it was not. It was cheeping loudly. I helped it get most of...