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    Tips for Healthy Happy Chicks?

    @lazy gardener Thank you, this is so helpful!! I'm excited to try them out on a bit of scrambled egg! I will also check out your feed about FF. :)
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    Tips for Healthy Happy Chicks?

    Sounds like Nutri-Drench is the way to go. Also, you have to make the fermented feed yourself, right? I'll look into that! With the scrambled eggs, do you just put a small dish of them in the brooder, all chopped up? And they'll just go after it?
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    Tips for Healthy Happy Chicks?

    Do you suspend the heating pad somehow so they get under it like they would a hen? Or do you just lay it on the floor of the brooder?
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    how to fix pasty butt

    How does the sand help? Does it work as chick grit?
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    Tips for Healthy Happy Chicks?

    Hi there! This is my first year raising chicks, and I have read so much that I'm a little overwhelmed! I have six chicks that are about three weeks old in a large brooder in my garage, and 9 chicks that are all around 1 week old (little more, little less). We have a GREAT BIG coop and run for...
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    What breed of chicks do I have??

    We got them from a lady in our area who sells them. She had quite a mix of chickens, so I wondered if maybe they were mixed.
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    What breed of chicks do I have??

    Yes the greyish/lavender one IS noticeably smaller than the others...I was worried at first, but she's healthy, so banty makes sense!!
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    Chicks with pics - Week 3

    Cute, cute!! How did you make their roosting bar? Mine desperately need one! :-) TIA!
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    Chicks with pics - Week 3

    Cute, cute!! How did you make their roosting bar? Mine desperately need one! :-) TIA!
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    New chicks coming...1st timer

    @lazygardener When you give them the sod, do you also add Corid to their water? I've read that the chicks can get a parasite that lives in the soil, and Corid keeps them from getting sick? I love the idea of giving my chicks some soil from the backyard, to get used to, like you said...but I'm...
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    What breed of chicks do I have??

    Posted this Tuesday but the pics weren't working, and then I think it just got too far down on the forum for anyone to see the post. Hopefully this time the imgur will work and I'll get some answers! :-) We just added these five little gals to our brooder. The problem is, I'd like to know if...
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    Sick chick

    Well, it died in my hands about 10 minutes ago. :-( Such is the life of a chicken lady. Thanks for your help, anyway.
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    Sick chick

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    Sick chick

    Oh, and every once in a while she'll shake her head around kinda violently like she's trying to wake herself up, but then goes back to laying still... :-(
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    Sick chick

    I have a week old chick that was fine this morning when I checked on them all, but when I got home, it was laying down and wouldn't run around anymore. I checked and it had a little bit of pasty butt so I cleaned that up. She seemed to start to feel more heavy in my hand (less of that lifeless...
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