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    Chickens not laying eggs for long time

    Thank you and the pepper idea. I appreciate the information from most of you here.
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    Chickens not laying eggs for long time

    I have two coops. The main coop is a small room that is 8 feet long by 6 feet wide and 8 foot tall. It has five perches running the 8 feet length on one side, the other side has 12 individual boxes for egg laying. The boxes are kept full of hey or wood shavings or straw. The chicks knock it...
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    Chickens not laying eggs for long time

    I learned that tomatoes that sit too long or bird droppings in the chickens water could cause many issues here on Backyard Chickens and luckily I treated for it because my little girl who was almost dead is up and running with the others again. It is called Sulmet. Treats many things.
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    Chickens not laying eggs for long time

    Hello, I have 15 chickens. A mix of barred rocks, Reds, and Ameraucanas. They are all now 2 years old. We use to get about 15 eggs per night even during winter because we have a light that comes on to simulate daytime and a bit of heat. At the end of last winter the egg laying slowed down...
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    baby chick not walking

    You were right. The vitamin B's were started and today she is walking on her own. Thank you again for your advice.
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    terra-vet 10 dosages for baby chicks

    Ok it has been a long run working with all these little babies. Learned about Vitamin B's and started my little girl on it yesterday. Today after two weeksl she is walking on her own again. She went from 30 grams of weight to over 60 grams today. She is gaining about 8 to 10 grams a day now...
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    baby chick not walking

    that is a weird think that it has no b12 or riboflaven. thanks for the suggestions.
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    baby chick not walking

    thank you for the response and the web site. Her feet are usually flat and not curled like in the pic. I sat her down and tried to get a pic of her and this showed her curled tow. But she usually has no curled toe. However being this all came from a food deficiency, I am looking at the...
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    baby chick not walking

    Ok i have several baby chicks and suddenly at age 3.5 weeks, they started getting sick. Your suggestions on BYC helped and all lived but one is still not walking. She eats out of a tray when put in front of her, she drinks out of a tray when put in front of her. She is now just past 4 weeks...
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    terra-vet 10 dosages for baby chicks

    Kathy, Just keepiing you up to date on our chicks. They have all recovered but one. She still struggles and cannot walk. She eats about half of what she should be each day. She drinks well. we have tried everything we can think of to get protein into her to help her get strong, Yogurt as...
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    terra-vet 10 dosages for baby chicks

    We figured it out and we are a bit angry but now know what happened. The store who sold us the chicks gave us scratch instead of feed and for the last three and half weeks we have been feeding scratch to them We had no idea since we never had chicks before. I wish we could have found out...
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    terra-vet 10 dosages for baby chicks

    I want to thank all of you for your help. I followed your directions and now all but the one baby chick are up and running and eating and drinking the medicated water on their own again. We hand fed them for the two days with some vitamins and amprol in the water and using a Zip tye, I could...
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    terra-vet 10 dosages for baby chicks

    I was given a chart by a helpful person on here and it had samples for 180 gram size chick. Mine weighed so little that I am looking at like using a couple granules only. My poor chicks were sent home with us from a thought to be reputable place and the food they sent home had less than 7...
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    terra-vet 10 dosages for baby chicks

    I just weighed the poor baby, and she only weighs 33 grams and is a little over three weeks old. I am having a hard time trying to figure out how little to give her. Any more help? thank you again
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    terra-vet 10 dosages for baby chicks

    thank you for the suggestions. It was thought that they were malnutioned so that is why I have been feeding them. They are eating alot of food from hand. I will concentrate more on medication.
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