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My six-week olds had the same problem. The feces looked about the same and we were taking no chances. We started them on a five day Corid treatment and the poop looks more normal now. One of our hens was affected pretty badly and she is in the house right now. I would monitor them closely and...

Our family had a Silkie named Henrietta who displayed the same symptoms around the same age as Frazzle. She was a very good producer and would produce an egg everyday. I thought she was being broody when she stopped laying (Silkies are notoriously broody), so I wasn't concerned at first. She...

Sure thing! If that does not help, tube feeding should do the trick. There are many great threads on this already and it is a great way to get large quantities of food to them. It's not as scary as it looks and I would highly recommend it if your roo is not responding to the syringe technique...

Thank you! I will call around and see.

Hi Diane!' I am no chicken expert, but I have had experience with your type of situation. I had a raccoon invade our chicks house last year, killing three of our six. Two were fine and the last one, Mini, had half of her face missing. No eye, no skin, you could see her jaw moving. I was...

I have a 8 week old Light Brahma named Lola. She came to us with four others from McMurray's Hatchery when she was 5 weeks old. They were vaccinated for common chicken diseases, such as Marek's and Cocci, etc. Since then, the others have moved outside to socialize with our current chickens. I...

Today is my bantams three week old birthday. They have grown rapidly over the past few weeks and I thought it was about the right time to play the guessing game! I am not new to chickens, so I have some pretty good guesses, but I wanted to see what you all thought. So gender and breed? 1...