I cleaned out my chicks brooder, I noticed some water spilled and where the waterer was it was very wet and had a grassy earthy smell, and I found maggots. I cleaned it out, I wiped most of it off, used Lysol on it, and put toilet paper on top to keep everything from getting into the bedroom. My...
We have 4 blue jersey giants from tsc. I’ve noticed their wing shape and tail feathers, and it looks possibly like a roosters. I know we for sure have one roo because of its comb, but on some of the others I’ve noticed that they’re tail feathers are pointed downwards except for one which has her...
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Recently my chicks were born. I took them when they were 2-3 days old. I noticed my one chick has been getting poop stuck around her vent, however some of this poop has been orange and stringy. Google is saying it could be coccidosis, but also shedding of intestinal lining. This chick...
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My chicks are okay with sitting and eating from my hand, but they will not be held, they won’t. And they’re deathly afraid. What should I do?
So just today we moved our chick into the brooder it was the only one of 5 eggs from our coop to hatch. It is currently alone, I’m gonna provide prop chicks and mirrors in the brooder for it, and I as well as my family agreed to talk to it and be around it. We have other hatching eggs that we...
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My chickens were attacked by a stray feral cat the other day, and 2 of my six chickens are missing. One can run really really fast, so we think one could be alive but is hiding somewhere, we think it’s under the shed. I found a poop and feather twice going up the yard, maybe a...
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Recently I discovered black mold at the bottom of my chicken feeder… will the chickens be okay?? I discovered it yesterday, and I took a good amount of it out, but I ended up leaving the feeder in the run, not wanting anything to discover it and possibly lead it to my chickens...