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Also -- chicken wire will keep chickens in, but will not keep most any predators out.  Dogs, racoons, opossums, fox, bobcats and monkeys will all get through that wire.  (What do you mean monkeys are not a threat?  Have you see a very hungry monkey?) 

I've finished my work on 4312's coop.  Wait until she posts pictures - that thing is HUGE.

Help please!  Please, please, please!  I'm so worried about my little Light Brahma.  Details and pictures here: http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/667767/help-please-sick-chick-or-injured-chick-w-pictures

Thank you!!!

Jessica... so glad to hear your little guy is healing.  I'm sure that was a pretty traumatic event.

Last year I was raising a bunch of chicks on  locally grown feed, and I noticed that the giant cochin chick, the largest of my breeds (, was not flourishing like the rest. She was wobbly and her feathers looked disheveled. I read that is could be a vitamin defficiency (B or D, I forget...). I gave her  some nutridrench and switched the feed to purina chick start. Within a few hours she had noticeably improved and by 2 days she no longer had any wobbles (she could scarcely stand the day I switched the feed). She has grown into a nice hen, and never had any more problems.

Usually I prefer to support small-scale growers/producers, but I now think that at least when they are chicks, they need food that is regularly tested for nutrient content. She is the only of my chicks (and I have had over 50) that has ever had a problem with feed.

Ok So thanks to rainwolf I am on a mission ! ! ! Here is what I will be attempting to make. I already got one trampoline today and have a line on another out  in Rochester (Mikey ! ??? )

She is getting the Medicated Purina Start and Grow.  That's the same food, right?  I have a packet of of Sav-a-Chick.  Is that the same as "nutridrench"?  Will it help.  She's pretty little still.

Someone posted on my help thread (http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/667767/help-please-sick-chick-or-injured-chick-w-pictures/10#post_9014709)  to build a sling.  I'll try it and see what I can do.

Here's a pic of me holding her as we tried to figure out what her crop felt like and if her leg was warm.  I'm extremely allergic to the chicks - so I had to wear my respirator.  No laughing!    At least the picture will help you get an idea of how big she is.

I'm wondering if she got hurt somehow while we were gone for 2 days moving my mom and started eating wood chips instead.

Have you ever given thought to just letting people lurk?  Maybe they don't appreciate you announcing that they are not posting.  If they want to post, they will.  If they want to lurk that is their option.   In my opinion it is rude to call them out.

I think my post was taken wrong. I wasn't trying to call her out more like saying HI. 

When I don't feel like posting or wanting others to know I am lurking I just sign out then I don't show up. 

Illia  I am sorry and apologize to you.

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Originally Posted by itsren 

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Originally Posted by ByN8ureHomstead 

My birds will always go for the easy water. Would you want to sip or take a big mouth full?

 

Remove the easy water, tap the nipples to get a drip of water on the nipple. One bird will need to see the water drop on the nipple and see it drop. You do not want to drip to much water to cause a pool under the bucket. All you need is one bird to drink from the nipple the rest will follow. Chicks always catch on quicker then grown birds.

 

HTH

 

We added a nipple system last Thursday morning to our indoor brooder.  We knew we were going to be gone for a couple of days and our babysitter probably would not take care of our 5-week-old chicks.  We installed an adult-sized hanging feeder in the indoor brooder and added a bucket to the top with a hose and PVC pipe 2-nipple system.  We sat out there and played with the nipples until we caught the interest of the birds and saw each one use it a little bit.  But, we made the mistake of putting a small bowl of water in the coop.  We watched them all day on Thursday and part of the day on Friday but they kept drinking out of the bowl.  Before we left Saturday morning, we removed the bowl, showed them the nipple system again, and hoped for the best.  We figured the chicks might stop drinking if the bowl was still in there.  It worked well.  We came home to 3 chickens who appear to be OK.  The water level in the bucket has gone down, and there's not too much water on the coop floor, so we can only assume they have been drinking.  The nipple system is going to be so much easier to take care of!  No more daily cleaning of a water container. 

 

Moral of the story... remove any other water containers if you are trying to teach your chicks to use a nipple system. 

That is why I keep the plastic screw on gallon style waterer for medicine, I know if I put in with them the birds will flock to it to drink.

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Originally Posted by Chicken Rustler 

Hey it says Illia is out there lurking! How ya been? Long time no see.

Have you ever given thought to just letting people lurk?  Maybe they don't appreciate you announcing that they are not posting.  If they want to post, they will.  If they want to lurk that is their option.   In my opinion it is rude to call them out.