Help! Our new chicks were recently introduced (slowly) to the flock. Things seemed to be going fine until this morning, I found the smallest bleeding badly and her back bare of feathers. I brought her in and rinsed the wound with warm water and then hydrogen peroxide. I heard I can use...
Thanks for all the replies... We got them from Palmer's in Orlando. We got 6 chicks from there previously and all were hens. I was told these were but after I brought them home I started to question it. Seems my suspicions were correct :)
After we lost one of our hens this week (so sad), we decided some new babies might cheer things up a bit. We think they are 4-6 week old Barred Rock chicks, and hopefully girls. What do you think? Thanks
This morning, I let my hens out of the coop into the yard as normal. One of them, Lucky, stepped out and just stood there. Her comb was very pale and limp. I watched her for a bit and she never moved. She had yellow runny diarrhea. She wouldn't even eat her favorite treat (yogurt). I went to...