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    WV Brahmas dropping like flies mystery sickness

    Three hens dead in a few weeks one at a time. They stop eating, drinking, roosting, get limp, stop walking , sit down and die. No vent blockage. Just get weaker and weaker. I e moved them to food and water but they refuse it. It's isolated to one at a time. I free range a few hours a day in a...
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    baby chick with soft stool and crusty butt feathers

    Mine seems to be eating and drinking. She is growing. But she peeps loudly when she poops though. It is distinctive above the other chicks. But it comes out freely. Believe me, my first gets have gotten smeared.
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    baby chick with soft stool and crusty butt feathers

    I have a six day old baby chick that has soft stool and all the feathers on its behind are crusty and hard. I've taken a soft paper towel and soapy water and cleaned it off. That worked but it is getting crusty again. It is not pasty butt; the stool is moving freely. Any ideas as to what this is...
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    Any hope for a lethargic chick?

    I have a brahma chick that is about 5 days old and I think it may have the opposite problem. It does not have a pasty but but it seems as though a large area around the anus is slightly matted as if either a somewhat sticky liquid or diarrhea has been there. The anus itself opens and very...
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