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Yes. I did raise the heat lamp slightly. Should I lower it back? And no. It isn't panting. It's more like shaking his head and squeaking out air. The brooder is around 98-100 degrees.

I have this buff silkie chick that's about two weeks old. Just a couple minutes ago I heard him crying and I ran over. He's doing this weird thing when he breaths where his upper throat puffs out like a frog. And he occassionally does this weird sneezing thing. I've taken him away from the...

Thank you all!! I will pick up some poultry nutridrench on my way home this afternoon. And no, the polish are the only ones that are acting like this. Is there a way I can break a large cage into three sections so that my polish can get rest as well as get used to the others?

If this is important, the other chicks keep running around and waking up the Polish when they're trying to sleep.

I ordered twenty six chicks of various breeds off of McMurray Hatchery's website sometime after Christmas. They arrived yesterday and minutes after being placed under the heat lamp I noticed several problems with the White-Crested Polish. One of them died after ten or twenty minutes of being in...

I'm planning on ordering some new chicks this spring and I wanted to know if I should (or can) build some small swings or playgrounds for the babies. I can make all of it out of pop sickle sticks and it would be really cute! If you know any kind of trick on how to clean poop easily off of...

@becky31312 I'm so sorry for your hen! I don't know much about chickens myself, but I wanna try to answer you questions. 1. Yes, if you find some kind of medicine you can add it to their water. 2. I don't think it can effect you but if the eggs look strange then I'd think you should just...

@Sony57 Thank you for your response! She does have watery eyes and (either her breath or her) smells like dead animal. Her crop is normal normal looking and her breathing is a tad raspy. I took a flashlight and looked in her mouth and she has a bit of a saliva/phlegm build up. There aren't...

My Polish chicken is breathing through her mouth and shaking her head like she's got an ear infection. She was making coughing noises and not speaking. Also jutting out her tongue and scratching her face/ear. Is she okay?

My Polish Chicken has been acting funny since I let her outside on Thursday. She's been making gagging motions, not talking, and having trouble eating. When I found her on Thursday she was in a pile of leaves, coughing and wheezing. Should I try opening her mouth and looking for some stuck...

I'm scared and don't know what to do. Please help!!!!!! :,(

Okay. So I'm a chicken farmer and have had my big chickens for about a year and a half. A month ago I incubated some eggs for the first time and got two beautiful chickens out of it. A few weeks ago I put them in a dog cage in the coop my big chickens are in. A day ago I opened the dog cage and...