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    I need mosquito advice

    Tried to find the Dancy vanilla online and did on amazon but I also found this warning regarding the mexican dancy vanilla http://idigmygarden.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6207
  2. Our 2 & 3 week old chicks enjoy a dirt bath. Starting from the front sleeping chick and moving clockwise they are: Sleeping chick in front - Sigy - Barred Plymouth Rock - 3 weeks, 2 days old. Middle Left - Fluffy - Light Brahma - 3 weeks, 2 days old. Black chick laying down in back - Stripey - Silver Laced Wyandotte - 3 weeks, 2 days old. Black chick standing in back - Helga - Australorp - 3 wks, 2 days old. Yellow chick on right - Pumpkin - Golden Comet - 2 wks, 2 days old. 2 Middle brown chicks - Cleopatra & Bandit - Easter Eggers - 2 wks, 2 days old.

    Our 2 & 3 week old chicks enjoy a dirt bath. Starting from the front sleeping chick and moving clockwise they are: Sleeping chick in front - Sigy - Barred Plymouth Rock - 3 weeks, 2 days old. Middle Left - Fluffy - Light Brahma - 3 weeks, 2 days old. Black chick laying down in back - Stripey - Silver Laced Wyandotte - 3 weeks, 2 days old. Black chick standing in back - Helga - Australorp - 3 wks, 2 days old. Yellow chick on right - Pumpkin - Golden Comet - 2 wks, 2 days old. 2 Middle brown chicks - Cleopatra & Bandit - Easter Eggers - 2 wks, 2 days old.

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    Chicks

    Pictures of our Chicks. Born April 14 -- Barred Rock (Sigy), Australorp (Helga), Silver Laced Wyandotte (Stripey), Light Brahma (Fluffy). Born April 21 - Easter Egger 1 (Cleopatra), Easter Egger 2 (Bandit), Golden Comet (Pumpkin).
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    Barred Rock vs Easter Egger

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    week old chick very weak

    my understanding was that Corid blocks Thiamine (the vitamin) which the Cocci bacteria or virus needs to survive. So effectively it causes a vitamin deficiency for a short period of time. The short period of time (5 days) won't cause permanent injury to the chicks but will rid the birds of the...
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    Difference between black australorp chick and barred rock chick

    Funny! We actually got 1 Barred Rock, 1 Australorp, 1 Silver Laced Wyandotte, 1 Light Brahma, and 1 Easter Egger last week. Unfortunately, our Easter Egger died approximately 30 hours after receipt. We ordered 3 more -- arriving tomorrow -- they are 2 more Easter Eggers and a Golden Comet...
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    Sweet PDZ - some good scientific info

    We're new to chickens (our chicks are now 8 days old) and, after the first 2 days of using paper towels, we are now using Sweet PDZ (Zeolite) for their bedding per the recommendations of so many folks on BYC. After a moment of crisis (my own throat started to hurt), I feared that maybe the...
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    Difference between black australorp chick and barred rock chick

    oh one more thing, the personalities of our 2 are strikingly different. the barred rock is outgoing, brave, and friendly. the first to come to us and inspect new things. she is not skittish and sometimes seems to be trying to figure out escape routes -- she is very curious. the australorp is...
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    Difference between black australorp chick and barred rock chick

    we got both Black Australorp and Barred Rock chicks as well. They are 8 days old now. The barred rock is almost all black with a white spot on the top of its head. The australorp has a black head& back and is white from under its beak through to under its belly/butt. They are from...
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    I Give Up!!

    Birdlady -- found this one on the site I previously recommended. Both reference respiratory infections. Here http://www.fresh-eggs-daily.com/2013/04/natural-remedies-for-respiratory-issues.html and here http://www.fresh-eggs-daily.com/2012/11/the-all-natural-chicken-first-aid-kit.html
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    I Give Up!!

    I'm so sorry -- I'm also new to chickens -- more so than you -- received 5 baby chicks on Wednesday and by Thursday at 3:45 am, we had already lost one. As I'm now paranoid and freaking out every time one of the little gals falls asleep (the main symptom in our little one who died was...
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    Laying hens with "water belly" or "ascites"?

    I recognize this is an old post but I saw a much newer post referring back to this one. I'm new to owning chickens (less than 1 week in) but am very familar with Ascites in humans. My mother recently died of Ovarian Cancer. Ascites is unfortunately common in cancer patients. While chickens are...
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    New Country Girl from Florida!

    hi there -- we are in sarasota and just received our order of 5 chicks from MyPetChicken this past Wednesday (shipped/hatched on Monday, April 14). Unfortunately 1 of them died last night -- we had thought it was cocci but the folks at mypetchicken thought internal injury from the shipping (she...
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    Help please - 4 day old chick sick - white poop lethargic

    Thank you so much RealTree4. It just sucks to see a small vulnerable little one die. I did talk to MyPetChicken today. They were wonderful. They thought given the young age (4 days) and the symptoms (lethargy, white runny poop, eating and drinking very little and death fairly rapidly) that it...
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    Help please - 4 day old chick sick - white poop lethargic

    Cinnamon, our Easter Egger, died last night at 3:45am in my husband's hands. We had her less than 48 hours and she was only 4 days old. The hard part is knowing what it was that killed her so we can try to prevent our other 4 from the same fate. After reading and reading and reading, I suspect...
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