Recent content by Simeo

I have a baby chick we thought had wry leg. We tried wrapping the legs together as some websites say to do and we thought the chick was doing well after a couple days so we removed the wrap and found she only stands on one leg. Then I picked her up and noticed the "bad leg" looked swollen. I...

Off.... your.... rocker. We had a horrible infestation of mites in our coop for a few weeks. I dusted the entire coop down, put some DE in the food and rubbed the chickens vents with DE (where all the mites were congregating) and did nothing else. 2-3 days later there were no mites and we...

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Our favorite chicken, a white polish has been having some trouble with the flock the past couple days. She was being isolated and attacked by our rooster and we don't know why. The only thing we could guess is that she hasn't laid an egg in a long time. This morning when I let the girls out...

Cocci? Just a thought but from what I read about Cocci the chicks become very drowsy looking but the poop will be quite nasty. Here's a thread which might answer any questions on that: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/90731/cocci-what-it-looks-like-and-what-we-did-warning-poop-shots I'm...

This is an updated picture. She was picking at her food. Her vent looks much better than it did yesterday when it had the huge bubble and blood. Nevermind. As I was writing this post I heard squeals from the cage. When I checked on her I saw this: The bubble became slightly larger but...

Looking at her I don't see any mites like I did on some of the other chickens. The entire coop is covered in DE. I don't really feel comfortable spreading Seven dust, a poison the chickens could breathe in, all over the coop and run and especially on the girls. That's why we went with DE. The...

Hello there. We have a problem. Last night when I put up the chickens I counted and checked them all as I usually do. They are all standard birds except for two mille fleurs we pay special attention to, Camo and Flague. Well upon checking the chickens last night Camo had a large "bubble" coming...

Here's one of our marans chicks weighing in today at 9oz (almost 4 weeks old). I'm just going to guess but.... roo? He's supposed to be a cuckoo/black cross but I don't see the cuckoo.

That was a great "poop chart"! Answered our question right quick. Is this stickied somewhere?

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They don't have anything like that. Just Start-N-Grow, Sporting Bird Flight Developer, and Sporting Bird Starter. No rooster booster, no meat bird crumbles.

Mcmurray calles them "Jumbo Cornish X Rocks" I weighed what seems like the largest one today and it was at 15oz. I'll guess the others are somewhere around 9-14oz today. Would it be ok for me to feed them the flight developer (22%)? It's medicated with BMD but they don't have have any other...

Thank you for your reply. My target weight is "big enough to eat". I'd like to dress them out at 4-6lbs actually. I feed them 12 on 12 off with the feed I said I was using before. They will be 3 weeks old tomorrow and they average... 9.9oz If 1.5lbs is the average they should be at that really...