Recent content by awyrwicki

Im having the same issues and someone told me it could be Omphalitis and to treat with antibiotics in the water and clean their umbillicus with Iodine or bactine, I did both this morning and he seems to be doing better but unfortuantely I had already lost 3 before. Maybe something to try if it...

Hows he holding up? I posted with something similar, does he have any other issues? Mine falls on his back, and seems very lathargic, eyes closed...lost 3 like that. Someone suggested to me that they may be getting Omphalitis and to give them antibiotics in their water and rinse thier...

I'm having the same issue. I have lost 3 on their own, and I have another one who is fighting to hold on. Someone suggested to me that it is Omphalitis so I am treating the 4th with antibiotics and treating his umbilicus with Bactine. If you have more hatch that way, try it. If it doesnt...

Have you started an antibiotic yet? I had a chick that had a similar looking scab only mine was worse and he died hours after birth. I'm thinking mine had Omphalitis. I just started the antibiotic on another one this morning and sprayed bactine on it.

I walked into our barn yesterday where we had a hen brooding and noticed that there were some broken eggs and next to that a dead chick just outside the nest on the ground, then I look a bit further and see another chick laying about 10 feet away, barely breathing, eyes closed. I picked it up...