Unfortunately, the one with the very swelled belly died. But, the others are all acting normal again. And also, I think they ARE meat birds! It didn't even occur to me to consider that, but their legs are huge and they are growing like MAD.
I don't know why the local 4H would give the...
-I have had them for 2 weeks now.
- The first week they were on paper towel bedding and now they are on hay bedding. At school they were just on a paper towel.
-They always have food (chick starter) and have never run out of water.
-They never have treats.
-They were fed chick starter, from...
We have 9 3-week old chicks we got from my son's kindergarden class after they hatched. They were doing fine until today I noticed a few (4) of them have a very swelled belly (below the vent) and are not as active as the others.
Their butts are clean (no pasty butt) and the are at the...