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My nearly five month-old Black Australorp is doing very poorly today. She's very immature compared to the other BA I have who was hatched on the same date (April 13). Her comb and wattles aren't very developed and se's a bit smaller in size. Also, she's a bit deformed - her left side is...

Quote: That sounds horrible. They don't *seem* to have the symptoms listed, but you're right, it's better to be safe than sorry. Thank you for the information.

Quote: There aren't worms in their poop (we track enough in the house to be sure of that *blech*). I'll check for parasites. They haven't been scratching though it doesn't hurt to be absolutely sure.

Thank you! I was hoping this was the case as I'd really rather not have to explain to my kids that we're eating Rocky. They were already pretty traumatized about Willow's sudden demise.

Hello! This is my first real post here (other than my introduction a few weeks ago). I've done a search of the forum but there's so much information to sift through that I was a bit overwhelmed and I couldn't find my problem being addressed so here I am. We're raising chickens for the first...

My chicks think oatmeal is like crack. I can't get them interested in anything else. Not even meal worms.

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? We just got our chicks last Saturday. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? We have four awesome little ones. (3) What breeds do you have? 2 Black Australorps: Rosalinda and Henrietta, 1 Rhode Island Red: Lucy, 1...