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    Comment by 'rharb' in article 'Reasons for Tossing Out Your Indoor Brooder and Start Raising Your Chicks Outdoors'

    I want to thank everyone involved in this post and the comments. Our original hens bullied and terrorized two separate batches of new chicks. It was always a pain introducing new birds. That is until I found this article! We put this 3rd batch of girls out in the coop at 4 weeks old. Today we...
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    days old chick ate pine tree fuzz.

    Update, I gave the birds chick grit with probiotic and they ate it up right away! My ISA brown is back to her spunky self. Thank you for your knowledge.
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    days old chick ate pine tree fuzz.

    Thank you M Brennen and NatJ. I will head to the store and get some.
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    days old chick ate pine tree fuzz.

    We are feeding them Purina medicated chick starter/grower. I assume grit is not in it, and the birds are inside our house under a heat lamp. Just to be clear, it is ok to give chick grit to a bird about 4 days old?
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    days old chick ate pine tree fuzz.

    So I let my days old ISA brown explore my sidewalk. Before I knew it, she ate 3 pieces of pine tree fuzz (little pink, pine cone looking things that rain down from the trees.) Her crop looks larger than it should in the morning. Are the chick grit products out there appropriate to use on...
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    Permethrin given, now safegaurd

    My bird free range a few hours a day and bring home mites all the time. I saw 2 of my 9 birds had poopy butts and then miss fired a few eggs-shells too soft. Their tail feathers a looking rough and saw what looked like possibly mite eggs around the vent area. I don’t believe it fly strike, but...
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    Permethrin given, now safegaurd

    Last dose of permethrin sprayed onto the bird Friday night 5/1, I now need use liquid safeguard for goats on them( saw a very tiny worm swimming in their wet poop twice). How long do I need to wait to administer the safegaurd orally?
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