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My little chick was doing this strange, almost gasping, open mouth breathing thing, and after reading these last 2 comments…I checked her mouth, and sure enough a piece of puppy pad was wrapped under her tongue and down her throat! Thankfully I work at an animal hospital where I had some help...

Thank you chickensforkids!

Thank you snow5164. This was the first chick I have lost….I have lost quite a few older hens to foxes and one to a hawk…I keep the local wild life well fed! Its so hard to not get attached to those cute little fluff butts! I currently have an older hen who has stitches from a fox encounter...

Thanks everyone for the advice. Sadly the little chick passed away that night. After she passed I felt her abdomen and it felt like there was a very hard circular mass….maybe it was her stomach and for some reason nothing was able to pass; her vent was completely clean. All the others seem...

I received 11 chicks on Tue (6/2/15), they hatched that Monday. So they are all about 3-4 days old now. All seem to be doing great besides one. When all the others are running around, eating, and drinking; she is standing under the heat lamp with her eyes closed and wings slightly drooped...

I have had my 4 girls for a little over a year now and my columbian wyandotte is getting her feathers plucked by the others. She has a bald spot now on her back-this seems to be the only place being plucked. They have free range of about 1/2 an acre (unless they jump the fence and bother the...