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    Going to roost with a half full crop

    I have a flock of Icelandic chickens, they're medium sized birds. 6 one year old hens, 8 four month old hens, and 4 four month old roosters. We are going to be butchering 2 of the roosters soon btw. Everyone is fed grower crumbles right now, with oyster shells on the side for the adults...
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    ENDED - Comb Contest - 2018 - Rose

    3 month old Icelandic rooster
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    Baby Chicks Dying: Help!!!

    Ok so I've looked all around the free range area. The mommas are taking their babies up into the compost bin and with this warmer weather there's some very moldy stuff in there... and I found a spot where we'd dumped a bit of chick started dust that was in the bottom of a feed bag and it was...
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    Baby Chicks Dying: Help!!!

    I looked that one up earlier when I searched for threads with the same symptoms but these chicks are 4 weeks old and from a brief search the mushy chick disease only affects week old chicks.
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    Baby Chicks Dying: Help!!!

    Ok so some more symptoms we noticed. His entire abdomen is really really bloated, mostly near the rear, but his vent is completely fine. Also the bottom of his feet are a weird yellow hue that is not normal for his color. He's not going to make it, he's kind of in death throws now. Opening and...
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    Baby Chicks Dying: Help!!!

    Any thoughts on rehab? The sick chick is getting worse...
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    Baby Chicks Dying: Help!!!

    Thanks, I'll go look, but I'm not sure if I'll find much since they roam in a really large space, much of it the woods.
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    Baby Chicks Dying: Help!!!

    We haven't put any weed killer or fertilizer out so if it's a toxic something then it must be some sort of plant. We're going to lock them into the run tomorrow.
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    Baby Chicks Dying: Help!!!

    Ok so I have two momma hens raising baby chicks outside. They'r four weeks old. They're free ranging and doing well, except we had a chick die last night. They were all asleep in the nest and I was checking on them and counting them and picking them up to be examined. The mom who had 10 chicks...
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    Broody Madness

    "Demon Momma" is a good way to put it. :lol: But she keeps trying to be broody! I got my dad to tell me the rest of the story, apparently the chicks were already running away from her before he added more because she only had one underneath her when he checked in the morning. So she just sucks...
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    Broody Madness

    Yep, should go a lot smoother. Thanks!
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    Broody Madness

    Gotcha, thank you for the reply. It's a bit of a learning process I suppose... we'll be able to handle it a lot smoother next time now that we really know what we're doing.
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    Broody Madness

    Yeah, it was quite the chicken rodeo!!!! Baby chicks EVERYWHERE. I will keep "the younger the better" rule in mind next time. They were under a brinsea ecoglow at the breeder's place, and a ceramic heat emitter here. If you're not familiar, the ecoglow looks like this. It mimics a mother hen...
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    Broody Madness

    Ok so we introduced the chicks last night like I described. Went fine at night, and they were fine when I checked on them first thing in the morning. Seeing their success, Dad gave Cloud two more in the morning so she had four. Not a good idea. Once the chicks started waking up, Cloud decided to...
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    Broody Madness

    Thanks so much for asking, the new chicks are doing great, I picked them up yesterday. 26 of them, the breeder gave us a few extra. They hatched on Wednesday like our four other chicks did. We have a total of 30 chicks now!!! So many little peeping sounds. Here they are on the way home. They're...
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