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Good to know. Baby oil is mineral oil. Perhaps you working the Qtip at the interface between the skin and adhesive agitated it enough to break the bond. As a note you mentioned using masking tape. If you are going to the blue tape might be a better type as it is designed not to pull paper...

Nothing comes to mind that you can soak it in. The solutions that would dissolve the adhesive would not be good for its foot. Depending on how far you want to go I would get what are called "flush cut" pliers. Pretty common and you should be able to insert the end (it comes to a point)...

I wonder if it is breed or that you have chicks with mothers. I have chicks 3 months old that don't dust bath. I also tend to buy chicks so perhaps they don't have a role model.

I would guess that your adults didn't have lice because they dust bath more. I don't think I've seen my younger chicks dust bathing. If they don't dust bath then that could be they gather on the young ones so heavily. Working on bumblefoot myself. At least I think it is...

Not sure what it could be. Maybe one of the other chickens is s carrier? Although of what I can't guess. If all the deaths have been chicks with Hens then I would raise them separate. Integration can be a bit of a bother though. You're sure you don't have a mite problem? They can draw out...

I don't know what rain would have done to promote the death. I have 4 new chicks and they did fine through all the rain outside in a small coop in a larger cage with no hen and a heat lamp for the cold. The only chicks I ever lost were to preds. I put them in a protected environment with lots...

Not sure what your coop is like but raising it is not expensive. Just some muscle and time. If the chicks are in the raised coop you'd have to block them in. They will not be able to fly back up. Maybe a timed door? You can do some stuff with a timer and an electric fence to discourage...

I don't breed chickens and originally got them to turn grasshoppers into eggs. But I've become attached to them. One rode on my shoulder when for some unknown reason the rooster banished it. It recently died of water belly. I gave it a viking funeral. There is always some discouragement in...