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    How Much Treats Is Too Much????

    Hi all!! I have 22 chicks, about a month and a half old. I treat them everyother day to yogurt or bananas or fruit or applesauce etc. Is that too much? It seems that they get very excited when I go out to them knowing they may get a treat, but am I giving them too much... breaks my heart when I...
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    What To Do To Help Chicks Stay Cool This Summer

    That is awsome!! Thank you! I will look into these.
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    What To Do To Help Chicks Stay Cool This Summer

    Are these the same as "tobacco worms" The big gross green caterpillar like worms??
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    What To Do To Help Chicks Stay Cool This Summer

    Hi all!! Can someone give me an idea of something to help my chickens stay cool this summer. They have sun and shade, but heat and humidity I can not control. I have a fan in there house. Is there anything else that I can do? Also.... Is there any type of plants that I can plant around there...
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    Can Chicks That Are A Month Old Go Out In Wet Grass?? Hurry!!!

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!! My chicks will be happy at your prompt reply.
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    Can Chicks That Are A Month Old Go Out In Wet Grass?? Hurry!!!

    I have baby chicks that are a month old. We had a crap ton of rain last night and this morning. The grass and ground are pretty saturated but no puddles in their pen. I would like to let them out, it is gonna get about 75 to 80 today. CAN I let them out? Is wet grass bad when they are little...
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    3 week old chick needs a jump start... ***PLEASE HELP ME-WORSE TODAY!!

    Ugh, never mind. She died yesterday.
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    3 week old chick needs a jump start... ***PLEASE HELP ME-WORSE TODAY!!

    I have a 3 week old chick that was sick, he had pasty butt and then was constipated, I seem to have cleared that up. He is not growing, he eats the chick started, drinks electrolytes and water, but sleeps alot, sits under the heat lamp, does not interact with the others. The other chicks leave...
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    ?? GRIT ?? for chicks

    K, we are knew to the whole chicken thing.... I was wondering what exactly "grit" is. My chicks are 3 weeks old, I have been given them dirt out of the yard, is this enough and ok? Would grit be better? Also, I have some that are getting pecked at, chicks are pulling out tail feathers on others...
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    Help! Pasty Butt

    I received my chick from McMurry that are 3 weeks old and I have 2 that had it bad, one was so "backed up" I ended up cleanin her out with a bobby pin and olive oil, it as so compacted, Im surprised she did not die. Olive oil worked great, and I hard boiled an egg and gave them yogurt for a...
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    My girls are MEAN

    I am just learning about chicks, but... I had two sick ones that I had to take out of flock and have been introducing back into flock. They told me put them outside on grass if you can to keep them occupied, they may not bother them. I found that mine don't bother if I put cut grass clippings in...
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    Baby chick that now seems to just let the poo run down his butt

    They have been on the medicated feed also. All day today that is all they have gotten and they still seem to have runny white poo running down them. As we speak I am boiling the egg and removing the yogurt. Hopefully by the morning I can tell u more. I have the electrolytes in the water also. I...
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    Baby chick that now seems to just let the poo run down his butt

    I have a 3 week old chick that had pasty butt that I fixed by soaking it in warm water to loosen it and gave him olive oil. That worked fine for it but now he seems to just let the poop run down his butt. It is white liquid stuff and it just runs out of him and sticks to him. It is not on the...
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    Puttin sick (now health(ier) ) chicks back in with flock

    Hi again all!! My two chicks that were not feelin good are doin better and I am lookin to put them back out with the others. They have been kept separate BUT in same shed. How can i introduce them back. My friend said they would get the crap beat out of them by the others. They all came...
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    Baby chick that seems to be constipated??

    Awsome.... I am heading out now. I really appreciate the help. I have never owned chix. Thanks Again!!
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