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    17 week hens won’t go into coop

    Yep, we have a 10x10 building full 8’ tall with roosting space for 30. We had 22 at our max at one point prior but that was with some that we “inherited” and we did’t know ages… Yes the other coop is closed up, but you nailed it they are roosting on top of it nightly. My son has the idea of...
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    17 week hens won’t go into coop

    Hello. Last year was a bad year and we dropped from 17 birds to 6 by the time April hit. We fixed all the gaps and “solved” a two predators. In April we replenished 16 new chicks. One didn’t make it this far so we have 6 older hens and 15 younger. Now the new hens are 17 weeks old. We...
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    Sick Chick, maybe?

    She did pass away. Farm and fleet. Midwest.
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    Sick Chick, maybe?

    Latest update... just found a bulbous growth about the same size as her head. I assume she's a goner :(
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    Sick Chick, maybe?

    she is still lethargic. Her feathers are growing a bit better but slower than the others. She can stand and can lift herself to standing position but always tilted a bit. now that she’s grown a bit we can see a potential wound on her right leg. Picture below for comparison. Its definitely...
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    Sick Chick, maybe?

    Well I woke up to her sleeping with the others (they were ignoring her) and sleeping with her legs under her instead of splayed to the side. That feels like an improvement. We're going to give her sugar or honey water and hard boiled egg yolk today. The other three are walking on her pretty...
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    Sick Chick, maybe?

    I'm now seeing lots of recommendations of 95 degrees. I'm guessing this is the full cause :( Hopefully she will recover. She's only been lethargic for one day.
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    Sick Chick, maybe?

    About 2 days but we have them indoors where we have it 75 degrees which is what I thought was needed. Yes, they peep a lot but it didn't seem to be distress. This coming from a noob though.
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    Sick Chick, maybe?

    She also appears to be about half the size of her "siblings" that were all hatched within 24 hours.
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    Adopted a flock, now onto chicks.

    We got a flock of 12 from a family that was moving. Now we're onto adding chicks so we can know the ages. Medatho
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    Sick Chick, maybe?

    We were given a flock of chickens and hen house. We’ve been doing well with them for a few weeks. Since we don’t know the birds ages we decided we should get a few chicks so we know the ages. We got 4 chicks and 3 are doing amazing. The 4th has us worried. See her below. She is capable of...
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