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    1 week old chicks, happy to dead in hours

    Thank you all for the help and support! A week later and no more casualties! Someone still has runny brown poops, so they are still on Corid. When this pitcher is done I'll lower them to the 7-14 day dose described above. They are also now on medicated feed. No idea what medications are in it...
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    1 week old chicks, happy to dead in hours

    I'm not a stickler for pure bred anything :jumpy I just love a variety of egg colors!
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    1 week old chicks, happy to dead in hours

    Oh, and I don't know what they may be vaccinated against, they just said the chicks would arrive vaccinated.
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    1 week old chicks, happy to dead in hours

    I thought they shouldn't have grit until 2 weeks of age?? Sorry, babies are much harder than the 16 week pullers we've gotten before!! Whew!
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    1 week old chicks, happy to dead in hours

    Thanks so much for the help! I was thinking maybe one of the kids went from dog/cat to chicks without washing hands, transferring the bacteria. After considering wry neck I'm sticking with my original diagnosis of coccidiosis. None of them have ever seemed like anything was wrong with how they...
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    1 week old chicks, happy to dead in hours

    I got dosage of 2tsp/gal from another thread on BYC, but it was for hens. I just wanted to make sure it was the same for chicks. They have starter crumbles, no grit yet. They dig around a lot and probably have eaten a few bits of shavings and/or paper, but nothing noticeable. It's my daughter's...
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    1 week old chicks, happy to dead in hours

    We've had chickens for years, but this is our first batch of babies. The 12 RIR chicks arrived 9 days ago from hatchery. I don't know which hatchery because this is a "chick chain" project my daughter is doing through 4-H and our local extension office. They are in a brand new box, with a brand...
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    Impacted crop? Yellow fluid from vent? Please help!

    Thank you! She was honestly probably perfectly fine by that morning, but I panicked anyway... You would never know that I once stayed calm whilst sewing the skin back over the breastbone of one of our hens! I guess everyone is allowed a little overreaction once in awhile. I wish I had gotten a...
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    Impacted crop? Yellow fluid from vent? Please help!

    Much ado about nothing, I guess! That's better than the other way around, though. It was so shocking to see her chest ballooned out last night. It was a big bald red ball. A little bit ago she ate, then layed an egg. So I put her back in with everyone else. I'll keep an eye on her, and don't...
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    Impacted crop? Yellow fluid from vent? Please help!

    Thanks! That's about what I was thinking, but though maybe there was something I don't know. No egg today, and no more poops, but she also hasn't eaten all day, so she doesn't have anything to make poop out of. Her water is definitely lower, and none spilled, so that's good. Also, I just gave...
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    Impacted crop? Yellow fluid from vent? Please help!

    I just checked on her again. Her water is down a little, so I think she is drinking. No more poop of any kind. I wrapped her in a towel so I could lay her on her back to have a look at her undercarriage and there are a few drops of bright yellow liquid on and around her vent. What the heck is...
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    Impacted crop? Yellow fluid from vent? Please help!

    We have had chickens for less than a year, and have never had a sick hen. Injuries, yes, but never anyone sick. My son's 10 mo. old Black Australorp appeared to have an impacted crop last night. We were just putting the girls in for the night and her crop was HUGE. It was a baseball sized hard...
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    Infected wound, advice please!!

    Every vet in our area laughs at you if you call asking about a chicken. I've already put waaaay more effort into this hen than anyone around here considers sane. I live in farm country. Animals are not pets in these parts. :(
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    Infected wound, advice please!!

    Anyone?? There are yucky pictures to see here. The top one is from the side, and the breastbone is near my daughter's thumb. The scab and everything around it is HARD. In the bottom picture the original wound was from the towel down to where the feathers start, and from one thigh to the other...
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    Infected wound, advice please!!

    Oh, and in the pictures, the blackness is not so black in real life. It is more of a brown, with a gray tinge from the Wonder Dust. I cut off and picked out the feathers that are stuck in it in the picture, and the scab started to come off a little again. No pus, but the darn thing just won't...
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