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    Open Contest 2026 BYC Calendar Photo Contest - We Need Your Pictures!

    This is my sister's roo, Jack is making himself heard.
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    Keets keep dying.

    I'm also interested in replies to this question. I had the same thing happen. I bought 6 guinea keets and lost all of them over two weeks. We made sure they wouldn't drown in thir water. We fed them the same chick starter as our chiks. Any advice would be appreciated.
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    Hello all

    Hi everyone. I'm Emma. Two years ago, my husband came home from Tractor Supply with four baby chicks. Now, as we begin our third year, we have 25 chickens outside and another dozen in various stages of brooding. They are adorable and addictive creatures. We live on 9 acres in Mississippi and...
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    Open Contest 2026 BYC Calendar Photo Contest - We Need Your Pictures!

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    Broody Hen - Babies Die

    I hadn't thought of that. The full grown hen and roo she has play dates with are fine but they were vaccinated. Her chick wasn't.
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    Broody Hen - Babies Die

    Thank you for your suggestions. We have tried to introduce her to our flock, but she hides behind us or flies into my arms. She is only closed in her cage when we are out or asleep; other than that, she is free to wander. She spends most of her time at the kitchen table with us and gets regular...
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    Chicken ate a cigarette butt!

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    Broody Hen - Babies Die

    We had ordered 12 baby chicks from a hatchery. Some kind of respiratory infection killed them all except her (the broody hen). I nursed her night and day, and she finally pulled through. She will go outside for field trips but doesn't want to stay outside. She does have access to sunshine...
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    Juvenile Cream Legbars Adopt New Babies

    This is so sweet and such a surprise I just had to share. We have a pair of juvenile Cream Legbars that are close to going outside. This morning, we found the roo cowering in a corner of the brooder (we think some of the others chickens his age were being mean to him) so we separated him to give...
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    Broody Hen - Babies Die

    It was eating and drinking well. It was cool watching her teach it how. It would crawl under her when it was cold and then pop out to eat and drink and explore. I thought the first one was just a fluke but then the one we gave her to replace it died. I never saw her peck the chick hard, but she...
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    Broody Hen - Babies Die

    I have a hen that lives inside. She recently hatched a healthy chick that lived for five days. She was very dedicated, teaching it to eat and soft clucks to soothe it, keeping it under her and warm. We woke up yesterday and the baby had died. No injury, just looks like it fell asleep and didn't...
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    Baby chick with wry neck

    Update, I took a new pic because I can't explain this well. She pushes with her legs, either with her head on the ground or propped up like in the Pic. She can bend her legs but is rather frantic and rolling all over like she is scared. Not seeing any improvement in her neck yet. She also...
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    Baby chick with wry neck

    Thank you, that gives me some hope. She came in with an order of chicks. The rest are fine, but something might have happened to her in transit. I shouldn't laugh, this isn't a funny situation, but she sleeps with her head on the ground and her butt in the air and it makes me giggle. She has...
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    Baby chick with wry neck

    Just for clarification, am I supposed to mix the vitamins with just enough yolk to feed it to her once per day or should I mix it with a whole yolk and feed it to her throughout the day? Also, am I supposed to cook the yolk? I've been giving it to her raw since that is what they absorb in the egg.
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    Baby chick with wry neck

    Thank you. I removed the Vit. D from the new batch. This morning, I got her to take water on her own, I had to hold her to do it, but it worked and, she was actively reaching for the syringe for her egg yolk mix. Small things but I'm counting them as progress. I'm going to try to weigh her today...
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    Baby chick with wry neck

    I've been trying to get her to eat the chick feed, but I can't get her to take much even when it is mush. She will drink water and take the egg yolk mix through a syringe. I put a little crushed chick feed in there, but she doesn't like it as much. I thought about giving her some watermelon just...
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    The Wry neck came back!

    I have a 3 day old chick with the same issue. I was wondering about some kind of neck brace for her. I see that you were told that wasn't a good idea. That's good to know. I'm using a similar vitamin combination and hopefully it will help.
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    Baby chick with wry neck

    1/4 tablet selenium, 1 drop B complex, 1 drop vitamin d, 1/2 a gel cap vitamin e, mixed in pedialite. I'm adding egg yolk because she won't eat solid food even when I put her beak in it
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    Baby chick with wry neck

    Hi, I have a baby chick that arrived in the mail 3 days ago. She appears to have wry neck, though I can't be sure something didn't happen to her in transit. I think she is a buff Brahman. I found a vitamin recipe that I am mixing with egg yolk for her. She is very strong and feisty but just...
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