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    How Much Treats Is Too Much????

    Hi all!! I have 22 chicks, about a month and a half old. I treat them everyother day to yogurt or bananas or fruit or applesauce etc. Is that too much? It seems that they get very excited when I go out to them knowing they may get a treat, but am I giving them too much... breaks my heart when I...
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    What To Do To Help Chicks Stay Cool This Summer

    Hi all!! Can someone give me an idea of something to help my chickens stay cool this summer. They have sun and shade, but heat and humidity I can not control. I have a fan in there house. Is there anything else that I can do? Also.... Is there any type of plants that I can plant around there...
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    Can Chicks That Are A Month Old Go Out In Wet Grass?? Hurry!!!

    I have baby chicks that are a month old. We had a crap ton of rain last night and this morning. The grass and ground are pretty saturated but no puddles in their pen. I would like to let them out, it is gonna get about 75 to 80 today. CAN I let them out? Is wet grass bad when they are little...
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    3 week old chick needs a jump start... ***PLEASE HELP ME-WORSE TODAY!!

    I have a 3 week old chick that was sick, he had pasty butt and then was constipated, I seem to have cleared that up. He is not growing, he eats the chick started, drinks electrolytes and water, but sleeps alot, sits under the heat lamp, does not interact with the others. The other chicks leave...
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    ?? GRIT ?? for chicks

    K, we are knew to the whole chicken thing.... I was wondering what exactly "grit" is. My chicks are 3 weeks old, I have been given them dirt out of the yard, is this enough and ok? Would grit be better? Also, I have some that are getting pecked at, chicks are pulling out tail feathers on others...
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    Baby chick that now seems to just let the poo run down his butt

    I have a 3 week old chick that had pasty butt that I fixed by soaking it in warm water to loosen it and gave him olive oil. That worked fine for it but now he seems to just let the poop run down his butt. It is white liquid stuff and it just runs out of him and sticks to him. It is not on the...
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    Puttin sick (now health(ier) ) chicks back in with flock

    Hi again all!! My two chicks that were not feelin good are doin better and I am lookin to put them back out with the others. They have been kept separate BUT in same shed. How can i introduce them back. My friend said they would get the crap beat out of them by the others. They all came...
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    Baby chick that seems to be constipated??

    Hi again all. I have a baby chick that seems to NOT be going to the bath room. Seems to be straining?? He had the pasty butt and I soaked him in warm water and cleaned it all off.... BUT there is still stuff in him and it is SLOOOOLY coming out. I am giving him yogurt with his feed that is...
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    2 weeks old chicks with sore butts

    Hi all!! I am brand new to the chicken raising world. I received 25 chix from MMH. I have 3 that have "sore butts" (for lack of a better word) I thought it was pasty butts and it was irratated from that. I have been cleaning them like 3 times a day and putting Neosporin with pain relief :Don...
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    2 weeks old chicks with sore butts

    Hi all!! I am brand new to the chicken raising world. I received 25 chix from MMH. I have 3 that have "sore butts" (for lack of a better word) I thought it was pasty butts and it was irratated from that. I have been cleaning them like 3 times a day and putting Neosporin with pain relief on their...
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