Recent content by malimom

Success!! Thank you everyone for your comments, particularly Quail Hill. Tonight we resisted going down to the coop to do the nightly "herding" until the sun had totally set and the sky had darkened. We tiptoed to the run and all was quiet. We lowered the coop door and flashed a light into the...

Congratulations! We're also making great progress. Since I last wrote 3 days ago there has been progress every evening. Last eve, my husband came home just before sundown and went straight down to the coop. ALL of them had entered the roosting area for the night! However, when he walked into...

Thank you for posting your dilemma with your chicks not using the ramp to get into the roosting area for the night. Mine are 6 weeks and we put them in the coop for the first time this past weekend. Not a one has taken the initiative to go up the ramp and into the roosting area. So far each...

We moved our 4 and 5 week old chicks out of their very large cardboard box in the garage into their very lovely and spacious coop late Saturday afternoon. All has been going smoothly and everyone seems to be healthy, happy and adapting well to the transition. Today, after opening the door from...

Ours really nestled together all of the time, sleeping on top of one another, staying in very close contact when they were that young. There's no question that you begin to see very individual characteristics in each of them as time goes on. Your little RIR just sounds like it just needs a lot...

Thanks so much for your reply, "cooped up".....Will give the RIRs more handling time and see if that helps! It's disturbing to watch "Scarlett" (RIR) go after "Pearl, the Barred Rock...she actually is pulling feathers out of her lower back! Ouch!! It's so strange that she really targets only...

We have 8 chicks, one set of four (2 BO and 2 Ameracaunas) is 4 weeks old and the other set of four just under 3 weeks old (2 RIR and the Barred Rock and a Golden Wyandotte). Everyone was getting along great until a day or so ago when the RIR from the younger group began to peck and pull...

For the sake of readers following this particular thread, our little Buff Orpington DID survive. After about a weeks worth of a little tlc, diligent and very gentle attention to its' vent (warm water/petroleum jelly)with suggestions from this site and our reference book, "A Chicken in Every...

We are new to chick raising also and in the past month have learned loads going through the process of watching these little birds develop. We purchased eight chicks (two sets of 4 about 10 days apart) about 4 weeks ago. In each group there appeared to be a "runt" after a couple of days. One...

Our "little one" is still hanging in there but it is not growing at all. It is eating and drinking some but not as much as the others...obviously. Does anyone know if this condition of being "impacted" can turn around on its' own or is this little chick simply doomed? It seems the chick would...

Thanks, Rena. Appreciate your comments very much. I haven't had chickens since I was a child...so some of the memories are just now coming back about some of the complications that arise. We'll see how it goes tonight.

After reading a number of the posts on this subject we looked her over again and think she is impacted. Just gave her a little sits bath and will follow some of the suggestions done by others to hopefully relieve her. She's a stereotypical yellow chick (Buff Orpington) and her abdomen is...

Just got our 4 chicks on Friday and all seem to be well with the exception of one that is not growing as fast as the others. She also had poop sticking to her "bum" and when I gently wiped it off with a damp tissue it appears that the area around the anus is bulging...underneath the skin. The...