Hi, when I came home I found one of my chicks on her back and the other chicks walking over her.
I picked her up and she seems to not be able to control the lower half of legs at all. No motor function at all.
Thinking it may be splay legs I put on a little elastic brace but does not help her...
I raised it to the very top of the cage and it is 97Fdegrees now. Not ideal but when I I tried taking it out of the cage entirely it was closer to 86 and they started huddling and chirping loudly.
My original hope was that they could move accordingly since I have definite cool spots to 74F in...
Alright, I think this is in part due to the heat being too hot. I saw two birds panting when they woke up under the heat, and it would explain why they are drinking more water. I checked with a different thermometer and the corner was 106F
To fix this, I raised the heat lamp several inches and...
Everyone is sleeping now so you can see them on the outskirts of the heat lamp
You can see on the towel that there is a fair amount of liquid in stools causing a tea staining to the paper.
Hi all,
New chicken mom with my second round of chicks, this time shipped from FL to WA!!
I am seeing liquid poops and I don’t know if I should be concerned!
They arrived this morning. They had fairly solid greenish poops on arrival but now it seems like most everyone has liquid stools...