i've heard and old wives tale that if you flip a chick over in the palm of your hand belly up and if it doesn't struggle, then your chick is a pullet. If the chick does struggle, it's a cockerel. We did that with ours and the woman was said, "I don't know if this works, but if you get all...
I've only seen this once and it wasn't with my chick but I believe it's called "wry neck" Aorry I don't know any cures, but I hope your chick gets better
It looks like the last chicken is molting but I'm not very experienced in this area either. The first chicken's bald spot looks too smooth to have been pulled, it looks like when my baby chicks' butt feathers fell out when they got pasty butt, but this cannot be the cause since there is no dried...
I hope your chick lives. I learned the hard way about dogs as well. My little good-natured pomerianian killed three of the four baby peacocks we bought 5 years ago. it sucked 'cause the one we had left flew away >.<. Good luck to you. How many chicks do you have?
This also happened to my chick, although she was one week old. She would do everything normally except she wouldn't poop and she would sleep alot. I'd use some sort of laxitive (not too strong) as suggested above. My mom placed the chick in water, massaged her swollen/protruding butt, and...
I'd have to agree with dawg53 that she might be at the bottome of the pecking order. If you have roosters they might have accidentally pecked or plucked her comb. What does the wound look like? For now I would just continue to check on her every now and then and make sure that she is drinking...
I hear what you guys are saying about the roosters being mean and all, but it's their job to be mean and attack anyone that come's near to their hens they pick(even other chickens) unless diligently trained otherwise. My rooster is the meanest thing you've ever seen, he'll attack you in a...
Oh, and if you want to integrate them into the flock you already have, just put them where the flock sleeps at night and check on them in the morning. It's what I do but I a;ways make sure that the chicks are strong enough to be around the older chickens before I put them together.
Thank you for your prayers, but my baby bantam died. She ended up having a back up of poop stuck in her vent. Before my chick died my mom massaged the protruding vent area and gently pushed on her abdomen and she said a lot of poop was backed up in her system. My mom believed that she...
Please, someone tell me what to do! Her vent is worse now!!!! it got bigger and it is some white poop/stuff dripping down her bum....HEELP ME! I can't let her die
Someone please help me! My baby chick has a protruding vent , and she's very small as in smaller than all the other six bantams, we've had her for about a week now. She didn't grow much from the time we bought her to now and it's really freaking me out, especially because she has pasty butt. I...
Someone please help me! My baby chick has a protruding vent just like the first pictures, and she's very small, we've had her for about a week now. She didn't grow much from the time we bought her to now and it's really freaking me out, especially because she has pasty butt. I just don't know...