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    How can I make my unusually small Buff Orpington chick grow

    Also, any advice about integrating my little runt with her normal size flock mates when the time comes? My older girls (all Buffs) are ages 6 and 4 years old. There are five of them total. My 4 new ones are currently 13 weeks. My tiny one now weighs 1lb! But she is half the size of the others.
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    12 week olds with diarrhea

    Thanks! They act healthy so I guess I’ll stop worrying.
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    12 week olds with diarrhea

    They are acting very normal. Running around, eating like crazy, chest bumping. They are outside in their little grow out coop. It has a raised coop/roost area closed off from the weather, and an attached run. The weather here has been very very rainy. Temps in the 60’s at night and high...
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    12 week olds with diarrhea

    My four twelve week old chicks have developed diarrhea. Their droppings have always been a bit loose, but I thought perhaps they were drinking too much water. I wash their water out every day and give them freshwater. They have been wormed. They are on medicated starter grower feed. And that’s...
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    Need advice on medication dosage and treatment

    Thank you for your support.❤️
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    Need advice on medication dosage and treatment

    Today after 4 to 5 days on antibiotic, she really acts like a different chicken. Active Anderson food and running around. I did not give her meloxicam today because I really felt like it was making her sick and boy. Did I see a change today so I do think it was making her sick Gave her some...
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    Need advice on medication dosage and treatment

    Thank you for your response. And answer to your question, the vet. I took her to first eliminated the possibility of reproduction problem and her eggs have never been wonky, but she has stopped lying. What kind of probiotic would you suggest? We are in a routine of giving the flock and their...
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    Need advice on medication dosage and treatment

    Thank you for the encouragement and links. I started her on amoxicillin two days ago and she has perked up a good bit. Still not out of the woods though. She is a four year old Buff Orpington. She has not laid an egg since she first got sick in mid March. I think the meloxicam is making her...
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    How can I make my unusually small Buff Orpington chick grow

    Thank you for this advice. I have been trying to give her extra protein and form such as scrambled egg, hard-boiled egg and mealworms. But the higher protein might just do the trick. I will try it. It’s a big bag for my small flock, but I think I can save it to you during their mouth because...
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    How can I make my unusually small Buff Orpington chick grow

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    How can I make my unusually small Buff Orpington chick grow

    Thank you for this post! It’s so encouraging to know that this has happened to someone else. We are now at 12 weeks which is three months. I guess the other three are 2 lbs. 8 oz. and our little Bella bird as I call her is 11 ounces. She is very active and spunky and does everything the others...
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    Need advice on medication dosage and treatment

    I have a four-year-old hen who has basically stopped eating and has had dark diarrhea. I took her to the vet and she did an x-ray and fecal sample And couldn’t come up with any conclusive diagnosis. She prescribed 7.5 mg meloxicam tablet divided into four and to give that once a day and she...
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    How can I make my unusually small Buff Orpington chick grow

    Thank you! From what I have read chickens with real stunted growth issues fail to feather out and have other problems like listlessness and diarrhea. My little chick is fully feathered and feisty. However I agree with you, she does not seem as aware of sounds or other issues that make the other...
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    How can I make my unusually small Buff Orpington chick grow

    I have a nine week old Buff who is half the size of the three other Buffs of the same age. I took her to the vet who tested for cocci and parasites. She was negative, but the vet wormed them anyway because an earlier fecal did show stronglytes. I have been weighing them weekly. The older ones...
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    Age to worm baby chicks

    I really think that the first sample was possibly contaminated the first vet that I sent the fecal sample to seems a little less organized than the other one which is one I really trust. And I wouldn’t worry however I have one little chick that is about half the weight 9.2 ounces of the others...
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