I JUST went through this. I got a companion the same size (younger in age) as my runt and fed her a vitamin supplement. Nutri-Drench, Chick Support, there are a few different ones but as long as it is a vitamin supplement and she does not have to compete to heavily with food she will probably...
Here she is with one of the little companions I got her. We named her: tiny>Binky>Binx>Zachary Binx so now we call her Zachary Binx (Hocus Pocus). She is doing great, the vitamin supplement worked and she grew at the same pace as the two companions I got her. Here she is with one of her sisters...
HI! I have added French Black Marans to the flock this year and got 4 as day olds. The other 3 are nice and big at 6/7 weeks but I have one that was lagging FAR behind the others and her wing feathers were oddly curled up and looked pretty scrappy. At 4 weeks the size and development difference...
I have experienced random egg laying stopping for my flock before and mostly it was solved by reducing stress and improving nutrition. One time we didn't realize rats were getting in and eating their feed. We started putting the cat out at night, got some dead rats on the front step for a...
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I have had this problem too. I'm sorry, it can be frustrating. The first time it happened, I wasn't able to tell which chicken was doing it. So I just covered all of my bases. I deep cleaned the coop and made sure it was secure, added a pecking block (the solid block of compacted scratch and...
Hi! I am Rachael, I have been raising chickens for years and years. I have used this forum many times for reference but have not actually joined until now. I added Ducks to my little hobby farm this year and that has been a learning curve!
Right now I have a chicken flock that is made up of...