Great news SO FAR! This morning little chick is walking fine, eating AND drinking!!! I think maybe it was uncomfortable because of pasty butt, then uncomfortable from being wet then blow dryed! Yeah so happy. And chick 2 the coughing/sneezing one is no longer doing it? Weird! Maybe it was...
Thank you for help with vitamins. No I dont feed scratch, The BRAND is called Scratch and Peak organic feed. :-) The drops wont hurt the other birds either?
Are those the brands that I ask a feed store for? I cannot get them till tomorrow unless Wal Mart has them? I am not feeding medicated food. I am feeding organic Scratch and Peck chick starter. Last year I feed my own homemade organic mix and I had no problems. It was only 8 chicks not 36...
The only thing I did different today was that my friend delivered a brooder he built for me. It measures 8 ft by 2.5 feet. I added new pine shavings (but they are the SAME brand I have been using but a brand new bag.) Chicks seem to be itchy and cleaning/grooming thier feather when I looked...
Now ANOTHER one of my chicks seems to be sick. A french black copper maran is coughing/sneezing. Also when I hold it close to my hear it sounds like I can hear water in its lungs, can that be right?
I have 36 chicks and this one is a Swedish Flower Hen 5 to 6 days old. I found it screaming in the brooder when everyone else was sleeping. So I picked it up and I think it had pasty butt and I cleaned it off. I put it back in the brooder and it was wet and stumbling around. Since it did not...