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  1. MrsBachbach

    2 day old chick kicking/scratching at face and falling backwards!

    It could also be an allergy to something. I've had a few chicks over the years display this also. One time I took the vitamin mix out of the water and saw improvement. I've concluded if it's not a deficiency or reaction, it's crazy chick syndrome.
  2. MrsBachbach

    Help! 3 Hens Dead!

    I agree with other poster, it's an awful cramped space. No room for shelter from storms, and no where to put them when problems like this arise. I'd work on a much bigger coop! Room improves health, makes for a cleaner environment, less stress and happier birds.
  3. MrsBachbach

    Help! 3 Hens Dead!

    I don't think it is hawks or owls. They aren't head rippers. They start tearing at the body. I think it's a small four legged predator. I think skunks attack the head also. I had a rooster once whose head was bitten by what I believe a skunk (the smell was in the area the day before). He...
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    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest Photo Submission Thread #2

    Surprise! Chicks startled by the flash.
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    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest Photo Submission Thread #2

    One of my girls scoping out the wooded area!
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    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest Photo Submission Thread #2

    Girls checking out the chicken tractor!
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    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest - 02/26/2018 - Pic by ViolinPlayer123

    Darn, she found me! "You can call here, chick, chick, chick all you want! I'm not leaving this roost til spring! Now bring me my mealworms!"
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    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest - 02/12/2018 - Pic by Faraday40

    The view from here is simply amazing.
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    Solved Caption Contest question

    It worked! So simple, yet I tried to do it the hard way! Ah well. Figures. Thanks guys for all your input.
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    Solved Caption Contest question

    Ok, did the mouse thing and it looks like that will work.
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    Ended Official BYC Contest - Guess when we'll reach 19 Million posts and you can win!

    3/04/2018 3:00 pm
  12. MrsBachbach

    2 day old chick kicking/scratching at face and falling backwards!

    Well, Save a Chick doesn't have the vitamins that she would need. I would look for a more complete vitamin mix without the added salt. Or try the drop of Vit E oil from the people vitamin aisle. Avian Super Pack is a good choice for birds and it doesn't have salt as first ingredient. Would...
  13. MrsBachbach

    Can cats carry poultry illnesses or vice versa?

    If there is a lot of sawdust in your shavings you need to make sure the chicks have chick grit. Just put a few small piles in their brooder once a week. They will eat that sawdust and they could get plugged up somewhere along that disgestive tract if they eat too much and don't have grit...
  14. MrsBachbach

    Can cats carry poultry illnesses or vice versa?

    Is the brooder outside? I would be surprised if it was IB unless the chicks are exposed outside to other chickens. I think I have read there is some disease cats can transmit to chickens, but I don't think it was respiratory. Had more to do with mice and diseases they carry. Personally, I...
  15. MrsBachbach

    Chicken wound on back above tail - what to do?

    If it doesn't look as bad as the picture, and doesn't look infected, just continue to monitor. There may be some infection in there that needs cleaning out. If it doesnt look like it is getting better in a week, I would start some penicillin injections in a week. You can get that at feed...
  16. MrsBachbach

    Chicken wound on back above tail - what to do?

    Hmm..that doesn't look like a fresh wound. I'm wondering if it is oil gland infection? Isn't that where the oil gland is Eggcessive? Looks swollen.
  17. MrsBachbach

    Chicken wound on back above tail - what to do?

    Potato chip, chickens have amazing healing abilities on nasty wounds. We have seen some ugly ones on this forum, even a chicken half eaten by a hawk. I have had some nasty rips on some of my birds over the years. Clean the wound, (which you did), separate her, which you did, put antibiotic...
  18. MrsBachbach

    Egg problem or cecal worms or normal?

    Doesn't look like worms to me, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have any. What it looks like to me is she is suffering or has suffered from an e coli infection of her egg gland or could be suffering from some disease causing this. I'd take that stuff to a vet and get some antibiotics for...
  19. MrsBachbach

    Hen pecked chick needs help.

    Does she not have any pen mates besides the boys? So you are trying to introduce a lone young pullet into a pen with older hens? That's not going to go well. They will peck her, reject her, for a while. She will end up bottom of pecking order and alone. I suggest getting your friendliest...
  20. MrsBachbach

    2 day old chick kicking/scratching at face and falling backwards!

    I think she could have a vitimin deficiency. Crazy chick syndrome or something like that. Can be genetic or cause by a vitamin deficiency. Mom wasn't getting something maybe. Try a drop of vit E oil in the beak. Be careful because you don't want chick to aspirate. Or get some chick...
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