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  1. cjeanean

    Chicks Wasting away 1 dead

    either speckledhen or silkiechicken (don't remember which LOL, they're both really helpful) gave me a website to order food grade DE. it's www.custommilling.com, so if you can't find any cheap around your area you might have to order it. For me, ordering it is the cheapest way to go, even though...
  2. cjeanean

    Chicks Wasting away 1 dead

    Quote: LOL, sorry about that....I've heard of molasses, too....didn't think about that....Sounds like the DE was the right stuff, so it probably wasn't that.....I dunno, I guess do what you can for your survivors and see if your state can do a necropsy... (if that is what it's called LOL) Good...
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    Chicks Wasting away 1 dead

    Quote: And, isn't that one of the concerns with pool grade DE? Good point, are you sure you've got the right DE????
  4. cjeanean

    Chicks Wasting away 1 dead

    If poisoning is in fact the issue I searched for activated charcoal and birds and it can be given to them. Here's the link to what I was reading, and it actually deals with lead poisoning in birds. The problem is that I don't think charcoal does any good after something is already absorbed into...
  5. cjeanean

    Chicks Wasting away 1 dead

    black??? I think that describes respiratory problems, like he couldn't get enough air. Kinda like when someone's choking they turn blue. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's what causes the blackness.
  6. cjeanean

    Chicks Wasting away 1 dead

    Purina start and grow doesn't have the same medications in it that just plain chick starter has. Chick starter shouldn't be fed longer than 6 wks according to the label (the medicated kinds, that is) whereas medicated purina start and grow can be fed up to like 20 wks. It's very possible that...
  7. cjeanean

    Chicks Wasting away 1 dead

    So do you know for a fact that they had cocci???
  8. cjeanean

    Chicks Wasting away 1 dead

    have you wormed them??? I know when dogs have bad worms they eat all the time yet don't gain any weight. Happens cause they worms eat all the food/nutrition before the animal can digest it. Don't know what else to suggest, since I don't know about what you gave them. Bloody stool could also be a...
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