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Thanks you guys. It's been almost two mnths and of course the darn thing hasn't come back but I'm glad. We electrified the fence but I need to figure out a way to make it "hotter" as I finally got brave enough and touched it but it just felt like a static shock to me. Thanks for all the...

I have a three week old cross beak chick. i feed her out of a deeper dish but she still is always eating and chirping for more food (I assume that's why she's chirping so much). Anyway, the beak is just getting worse and my husbamd keeps telling me I need to put her down but he is FAR from a...

Two nights ago a bear broke into our chicken run and killed ten chickens. He ripped the chicken wire from the coop and in some parts tore the wire apart. He killed and left six and took four with him. The ones left dead he had either ripped the heads off or flattened. I have seven left alive...

Ok I tried that and it didn't work. If anything I would say it's gotten a little worse because now she's doing it to everyone. I moved her and three others to a larger brooder. I put in three branches for them to roost on. I put some grit into a Tupperware so that they could eat and dust...

Awesome. Thanks so much. i will try that.

Oh! And she's only a week and a two days old. Forgot to mention that. And ive just noticed on the other side of the Australorp her feathers arent missing but are frizzy and not soft looking anymore. Im assuming it's from the RIR pecking her on that side, too.

She is one week old and she pecks at everyone (I have nine little chicks 3 days to two weeks old) a little bit everday but today i noticed her pecking at the largest chick i have in there, which is a 2 week old Black Australorp, to the point where the Australorp is missing a tiny space of...

i'm a total newbie (as in, i just got my first chicks last week) but i thought the lady at the feed store told me that the "chick boost" i was buying had electrolytes in it. maybe call your feed store and ask them? i also follow a lady named mavis' blog (one hundred dollars a month, i think...

And at what ages is it most common? We have six 1 week old chicks and I just want to be prepared in case it happens. Do I just get the Corid from the feed store? Do I need to constantly change their water every single time they poop in it (which seems like 10 times a day)? I change their...