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    Herniated navel? Help appreciated

    Hope's story melted my heart..and her baby is beautiful! I had a lav orp hen that I lost last year. She was the sweetest girl and it broke my heart. I have a chick (that just hatched in the incubator) that I believe has the same herniated area. I can't get a good view through the incubator...
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    Baby chick - No feathers below vent and can see poo through the thin skin

    And yes they are eating and drinking and active and alert.
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    Baby chick - No feathers below vent and can see poo through the thin skin

    That bit of color that looks like scabbing was actually a bit of poo. Ive been trying to treat them with a tiny bit of molasses and probiotics and it caused her to have a little bit of watery poo that dried on her vent. I noticed it after I took the pics and it easily wiped off. I did get the...
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    Baby chick - No feathers below vent and can see poo through the thin skin

    Pic 1, what looks like vertical dots on the skin below the vent is actually a few tiny feathers still left there. Pic 2 is of the second chick that isn't as bad yet.
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    Baby chick - No feathers below vent and can see poo through the thin skin

    It most likely is full because it is late at night. I will recheck in the AM.
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    Baby chick - No feathers below vent and can see poo through the thin skin

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    Baby chick - No feathers below vent and can see poo through the thin skin

    I have two chicks that are 3-4 weeks old that have zero feathers in the entire area below the vent...where the fluffy butt typically is. The skin appears very thin, not red, but almost see-through as I can see the dark poo filled up inside the area. I think it looks overfull, but I can't be sure...
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    Wheezing/croopie Silkie

    Hi all. My silkie hen started a raspy, croopie breathing sound yesterday. Sounds just like a congested cold in a small child. Today she is also sneezing, feels like she has a fever, and has a squishy crop. The crop hasn't felt this way until today. She still wants to eat and drink. For the...
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    Simplicef Antibiotic - OK for chickens?

    HI. Did you give that particular antibiotic to your chicken? Successfullly? I have a chicken with raspy breathing and maybe a sneezing. I can go to TSC tomorrow, but I have some leftover Cefpodoxime from a sick dog. I am worried about her getting worse overnight. And I'd like to give her this if...
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    Is he possibly an Ameraucana???

    Also, I'm new to all of this. Are Ameraucanas rare or expensive? I was just taking a guess from googling black chickens with muffs and a beard, etc. and it seemed to fit Danny D.
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    Is he possibly an Ameraucana???

    Thanks! I do believe their unsorted bantams come from shipments from a hatchery. I have an Olive Egger from them from a batch labeled as such and they have had batches of labeled Easter Eggers. But their batches of bantams are always unsorted for breed or sex. One of my bantams from the same...
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    Is he possibly an Ameraucana???

    That was actually my misspelling. He wasn't identified as any particular breed in the bin. I thought I had misspelled and was double checking when you replied. Lol
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    Is he possibly an Ameraucana???

    Danny D crowed for the first time today. Yay! Do y'all think he might be a black Ameraucana? I got him at a few days old from a bin of bantams at my local feed and seed that were unsorted for breed or sex. He's about 10 -12 weeks now I think. I tried taking pics that show his whole body, his...
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    Pasty Butt Question

    Thanks for the info! It isn't "a bulb" as in something extra. It is like her entire belly area is swollen and bulbous and squishy. Everything from her breastbone area down to where her legs attach to her body. It's not like an extra area or growth. It is the entire abdomen. I did notice, though...
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    Pasty Butt Question

    Thanks! I have a heat plate in her box rather than a heat lamp. The temperature generally reads around high 90s to 100 under there when down as low as I have it now. She has free access to come out from under it if she feels too hot. She is so tiny I wanted to make sure and keep her warm. I...
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    Pasty Butt Question

    Hi all. I just bought a teeny, tiny bantam chick from my local feed and see because she had an INCREDIBLY pasty butt, and I felt she would die for certain if not purchased. At home, I immediately cleaned her vent under warm running water and gave her a dropper of nutri-drench mixed with very...
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    Comment by 'tlatham72' in article 'How Much Room Do Chickens Need?'

    Interesting idea about something on the poop board that you just remove. I plan to build a poop board under my roost and have been planning to use sand/sweet pdz as the litter on the board. Plan to just sift out the poop like kitty litter every morning. But...your description sounds like you...
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    Comment by 'tlatham72' in article 'Little Red Hen House'

    Just lovely! I'm building my first coop and run now and wanted to situate mine in a nice, shady, wooded area of my yard, but I decided to start my constrution with a pre-built shed, which couldn't be placed into that space from the delivery truck, so I wasn't able. I do plan to plant some...
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    Chipped Eggshell Day 7

    Thank you! I read your comments after I was already in bed last night and tried to go to sleep and fix it up in the AM, but I kept worrying about that egg, so after about 15 minutes I got up and found some clear nail polish and put a couple of coats over it.
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    Poop board convert *warning-graphic/gross poop pictures*

    My coop will have those rafters as well. I plan to cover them (as if I were putting an actual ceiling onto them) with hardware cloth to prevent the chickens from being able to get to them. I'm new to this, but have read in several places that this is a common problem as chickens want to roost on...
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