Three days ago I bought two baby chicks. One of them is very weak. I have found her many times a sleep on her back. She is also very slow and doesn't move around too much. Although, she does eat and drink, just not as much as the other chick. Additionally, she will occasionally have diarrhea...
One of my new chicks (bout a week old) follows my hand wherever I move it. Does this mean it thinks I'm it's mom? Should I be concerned about this or is normal?
Tomorrow I'll be getting 2 new chicks. When I get them, is the only thing that I can give their chick feed? When can I starts feeding them grass, dirt, warns, chicken scratch, etc.
Thanks!
For the last couple of weeks I have noticed some 'dirt' or something on one of my chickens faces. I wasnt too worried about it at first cause i figured the chicken would get it off by bathing or something.
I started a different thread earlier asking how to get the dirt off of my chicken and...
I have 5 chickens that are in a coop(every now and then i take them outside for 30 minutes or so to free range while supervised) One of my chickens is getting pecked at and bullied. The chickens chase her around the coop pecking at her, not letting her eat food, drink, be with them, etc.
I am...
For the last couple weeks I have noticed that some of my chickens in my flock have had very dirty faces. I wasnt too worried about it at first because I figured the dirt would jut come off but it's still on....I was thinking about washing it but I heard u can't wash chickens faces. Any...
I have 5 one week old chicks hatched by a broody hen. THey all have pasty buts and I want to wash them off but when I wash them do I need to bring all the chicks and the momma hen with the chicks so she won't get stressed out or is it ok to bring on chick at a time without the other chicks and...
3 days ago our broody hen hatched 5 chicks. They are in the run with our other chickens but in a sort of crate so our chickens can't get to the chicks.
We feed our chickens our leftover scraps and stuff like chicken scratch.
Is it ok to give chicks that type of stuff???
2 days ago our broody hen hatched five chicks. We currently have the broody hen with her five chicks in a crate inside of our chicken coop. We wanted to start holding the chicks to get them more used to us. Is it okay to bring the five chicks in our house and hold them all or would we need to...