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    Chick’s back is featherless?

    Thanks for the advice, the chick is acting normal so I’m glad to know it’ll be ok.
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    Chick’s back is featherless?

    This one hatched yesterday and looked like this today. What do we do? How do we help them? Any advice is appreciated. This is one of our silkie chicks, hatched with a piece of shell stuck to their back if that's any correlation. We think they may have rubbed the feathers off, they were still wet...
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    Possible gapeworm outbreak with silkie chicks

    Alright got it! I wasn't aware of how important formulation was, I will make sure to watch for that. Thank you for informing me. (:
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    Possible gapeworm outbreak with silkie chicks

    Don't feel hesitant! This is our first time and we don't always know which brand is better, I'll definitely get them switched Purina. All the information you've given me is super helpful and I appreciate it a lot! I'm keeping note on all of it, thank you so much. (: Oh, and we have 10 chicks...
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    Possible gapeworm outbreak with silkie chicks

    I'm not sure who we got them from, I'm waiting for my mom to reply on that. I've considered coccidiosis too while scrolling through the forums, I'll need to look into medication for that. We've been feeding them MannaPro chick starter grower, which is medicated with vitamins, we also gave them...
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    Possible gapeworm outbreak with silkie chicks

    the others seem fine, they are all growing alright
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    Possible gapeworm outbreak with silkie chicks

    No they haven't been outside, but they were shipped to us so I'm unaware if they would have picked anything up. It's good knowing that gapeworm is unlikely.
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    Possible gapeworm outbreak with silkie chicks

    So my family just started raising these chicks, we are very new to this. One of our chicks died a few days ago from what we think was gapeworm, it was shaking its head and gasping for breathe before it died, it also couldn't manage to keep its head up and was nodding off. We are concerned that...
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