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    Chick poop abnormal (pictured), is this coccidiosis?

    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...
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    4 wk chicks distressed by the outdoors?

    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...
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    My 3 wk chicks have diarrhea...

    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...
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    Hello from East TN!

    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...
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    "Helped" a check out of the shell. Not sure how to proceed now.

    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...
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