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img/smilies/idunno.gif" alt="idunno" />">https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55351_img_0514.jpg What is it??? No one on Emergencies responds... Friends have said ringworm, spider bite, pecking? She seems under weight, feathers are making a peak at the breast bone. It's a 17 wk...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55351_img_0514.jpg Could this be ringworm? Posted a link to a picture of my 17wk Bramha hen with a weird circle wound a few days ago. It's a crater about the size of a dime with very raised white skin on the edges. The crater of flesh has...

My three chicks are 7 and 9 days old. Live inside on wood shavings and only have eaten chick starter. A couple seem to be getting really full crops. They have plenty of fresh water. I am nursing back one chick that had a really large impacted crop from yesterday. It was gone this morning...

I have a 7 day old chick who has seemed the mellowest and the most docile from the start. Her weight is good, has a great appetite. This morning I noticed that she had a HUGE bump where her crop is. I have been giving her small amounts of warm water bit of olive oil in it, with special curved...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55351_img_0514.jpg This is a 17 week old hen. We found this round, red looking wound on her this morning and it wasn't there last night. It's just odd because it's in such a perfect circle. She acts fine! I have two silkie roosters and a total...

We just brought home two 3 day old Marens. I am feeding them the same organic grow mash I feed my 16 week old chickens. They just seem to be pecking at it with not much interest. There are some poops, and they seem energetic, but cheeping loud! I ground it up finer in a cuisan art blender...

They are 16 weeks today. No crows out of either of them. I have already found a home for a cochin bantam roo that had been crowing for a month and half. Do silkies crow later? This is a picture of 2 different silkies. I had one hen get hurt and die and I am in the process of figuring out...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/55351_img_0449.jpg This is our 16 wk old hen who 3 days ago starting following us instead of leading the flock and she started walking very slowly and tail was slightly bent to one side. I am trying to treat her at home but not sure how to treat...

I have a 16 wk old easter egger. She has been very slowed down for 2-3 days. Puffed up around the neck. Wings and tails drooping and her she keeps her head down. No obvious signs of injury. Does free range and there is oleander and wisteria on property. Husband also throws food scraps into...

Calling out to our backyard experts! We have a 16 wk. easter egger who is the head lady. Yesterday she started lagging behind the group (free range in large backyard). Also puffed around neck and was walking like it was uncomfortable. We noticed that her tail is bent to one side also and...

We are trying to decide what what to seal our plywood on the inside of henhouse with? Curious what others have used or if you seal at all? Seem's the wood wouldn't last as long after cleanings with water etc. Also concerned about toxic products. Let us know your thoughts!

I have already treated my flock for coccidia 3 weeks ago. It seems a different chick (7 weeks old) is every so often pooping blood. I have separated her and watching. Trying to figure out if I should proceed with the same treatment of 5 days Corid? I posted on Emergencies but didn't get much...

I have already treated all of my flock of 7 week old chicks with one round of Corid that finished up about 2-3 weeks ago. Only one of the chicks had bloody poops last time and was separated and they were all treated. I followed up with yogurt for about a week after. All seemed good. Now a...

Does anyone have experience with light verses dark for the hens laying eggs in the coop? A friend of mine had mentioned that when they built a new coop and run her husband added a stain glass window and some of the hens started laying on the ground in darker corners. Has anyone got advice on this?

Does anyone have experience with light verses dark for the hens laying eggs in the coop? A friend of mine had mentioned that when they built a new coop and run her husband added a stain glass window and some of the hens started laying on the ground in darker corners. Has anyone got advice on this?

I just finished medicating all my chicks with Corid and I need to add some probiotics back into their diet. Everyone suggested yogurt, but my little picky chickies won't touch the stuff! Anyone have any other suggestions or secrets!

I posted this on the emergencies and cures with no results... so trying here! I have been treating my a new 3 week old frizzle for Coccidiosis since this past Monday. She was in the brooder with the rest of the original chicks for 1 day and I separated them once I saw lots of blood in her...

I posted last weekend about one of my newest 3 week old bantam frizzle chicks having very bloody poops. I have been treating it as Coccidiosis with Corid 9.6% (1tsp to 1gallon of water) since 12:00 pm last Monday. She seems to be much more active with more good poops and many less with blood...

idunno Yesterday we brought home a frizzle chick of about 2-3 weeks old. Very spunky and lively. It's poops were normal yesterday. My daughter saw it eat would shavings on the way home. Today some of her poops are well formed, they don't look wormy, but about every other one has bright red...

We purchased what we think are 2 silkie chicks, they are prob. 2 weeks old. One is black and the other "white" but its buttery colored now. They were mixed in with lots of frizzles. The one that will be white doesn't seem to have as much round puff on it's head like the black one, but...