Search results for query: *

I bought 27 chicks last Monday from my local feed store and about 8 of them have this wierd funky thing going on with the ends of their toes. I can't upload pictures but at first I thought it was just poop or something from digging but they are not outgrowing it and it seems to be getting...

I got stall dry at the feed store. It seems to help. I use the deep litter method but my outer coop needs to be shoveled out at least twice a year. The inner coop is more like once a month.

I had a bantam rooster with the same problem. I did not know what it was. The vet said most probably Marek's but the only way to find out was through necropsy. I didn't do that. I took him home and nursed him for a week and he got better then worse. When he could not eat or move out of his own...

OK. I think it is a sour crop. I am trying the remedies for that. I held her gently upside down and she threw up a bunch of white mucus stuff that smelled almost as bad as her poo. I am keeping her off of solid food and gave her fresh water and bread soaked in olive oil. I separated her from the...

I have an americauna chick that I got a week after Easter. She was fine up until a few days ago and then she started to get droopy. She hardly eats or drinks and when I open the coop she comes out with the rest but then just stands around sleeping. Yesterday she was putting her head under her...

I had one do something similar a few months ago. It seems to me that after she dropped the biggest poop I had ever seen from a chicken she got better and got over it. I just thought she was being broody. She is fine now.

Quote: Sound like my husband only his is some kind of paint thinner and masking tape! He is a painter. As for the peoxide, I used it to clean a wound on my dog when she got into some razor wire and she got a terrible staph infection because it killed the natural bacteria or whatever that she...

I have been trying to think of some kind of splint solution. I was thinking of strapping on cut toothpicks or something but I could not think of a way to do it. I like the boot idea. I will try that.

It is good that she is doing OK. Like I had said, it only happened once to two out of 13 chicks. Clean it, dry it, and off they go!

She is eating better than she was last week and she lives with the rest of the chicks in my makeshift expanding brooder. I can't post an image because my home computer is in the shop. The toes are curled into a fist and she uses it for balance. She tends to hide in a corner a lot but recently...

What I read didn't say anything about an infection. It was something about the hole being blocked and them being unable to poop. The neosporin does make sense though when you think about it.

I have a chick that was delivered to the feed store with her leg crushed under the cardboard divider. They were going to do what they do because they would not be able to sell her in that condition. They offered her so me since I was already picking up my 2nd 1/2 dozen chicks. I took her home...

I am really new at this but what I read says to put vaseline on the wounds because that is what is being picked at they don't like that and to keep them under red lights until it is healed up. The sight of blood makes it worse.

The info I read about this says to put vaseline on the area after cleaning it. I had the same issue with two of my chicks. It only happened once to each of them and I soaked them in water can cleaned them off and have not had a problem since. They are now two and three weeks old. I was looking...