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    2021 BYC Calendar - We Need Your Pictures!

    Our girls 💚
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    Strange wing?

    We're on our second round of chicks (current babies are ~10 days old) and we have one whose wings are coming in very differently from all the others. Curious if it's normal and maybe just a different based on breed? They don't seem to sit as tight as the other chicks wings.
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    How much should I handle my chicks?

    We've been snuggling with ours since the beginning! They look forward to the nightly family movie now and will actually start calling for us if we don't come get them in time :)
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    Sick Baby

    A rough day. Sweet girl looked like she was doing better this morning, eating and with a stronger chirp than yesterday. She even scratched around with the others first thing. Then after mid-afternoon she stopped eating and was clearly getting weaker. I gave her more electrolytes around 7:30 by...
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    Sick Baby

    Giving her a little hard boiled egg yolk mixed with a tiny bit of yogurt and water this morning, just to get something in her. If we want to try offering scrambled eggs do they need chick grit with it? And she's mostly spending time snuggled up in my sweater...will probably keep her there most...
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    Sick Baby

    Thanks for the reply. No swelling of the abdomen. I'll add the direct Corid drops and see if it helps. No pictures of the poop, but a couple of the brooder (just to note: it was half this size when we started. We cleaned it out again this morning and added the extra panels to give the others...
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    Sick Baby

    We got our first four babies (ever!) last Wednesday; they were day old chicks that shipped on Monday. When they arrived we had three that looked strong and one that we thought was going to be a little bit of a runt, but she caught up and they were all looking good until about two days ago...
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