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I got day old chicks today from my local farm store. All of the chickens but one is fine. They’re all active, eating and drinking, but I have one light Brahma who cannot walk, and won’t eat or drink. She chirps, but nothing else. When I first put her in the brooder, she would kind of...
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Has anyone here tried making their own organic homemade quail chick feed?
Can anyone help me with what the ingredients would look like? I'm from the UK and i currently cannot find any organic starter crumbs for quail. There are some Turkey starters available, but all currently out of...
Hi guys we now have a 100% confirmation on our baby being a roo. Today I was out looking at them and wondering when my Rhode Island Red butternut came up and crowed near me😂
I also noticed he had pointy neck feathers and feathers going over his tale so now all we have to do is take him to the zoo😁.
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I have a chick that hatched this morning and it can’t walk properly. It appears as though it has a broken left leg or some implication regarding it’s left leg. It’s leg sits out sideways and it appears as though it can’t put any weight on the leg. The chick can limp around but it’s...
I’m taking care of this orphan chick that we found and we don’t know what breed or gender it is. We’ve been calling him a he but we’re not sure! I don’t even know if you can tell yet but maybe someone here can?
Ok. So I adopted a small duckling I think he is around 5-7 weeks. He was fine th first weeks but two days ago he had some sort of seizure. He would go really tense and his neck twisted and his legs stretched. I thought he was dying. I just took him and soothed his neck and legs and gave him...
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New here to the BYC forum but I've been reading for almost a year ❤ places like these have helped me a lot.
I guess a bit of an introduction: I'm 22 from South Florida and looooove animals. I've always had a dog and lots of fish, the occasional reptile or small furry mammal, and...
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I have the sweetest little EE chick about 1 week old who I'm like 95% sure is a boy. I've named him Sid. I know it's waaaaay too early to know for sure, I wont know until I see those saddle feathers, he crows, etc...but I FEEL like he's a boy, deep down in my chicken-owner instincts...
I will be receiving 5 more baby chicks on the 25th - 27th of this month (August). This thread will be an exciting countdown to that! I will post a new message for each day counting down, and will update my status on my preparation for them! Also, feel free to comment your name recommendations...
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Two days ago I found this precious chicken on the road. Someone told me that it was there for several hours in the rainy day. I took it home and then I realised that obviously she was super hungry but she cannot "aim" for her food. Her head is shaking like someone with Parkinson...
My geese are almost 10 weeks old. They are both White Chinese geese. They have their own run and coop that they have access to all day long. At night, we lock them up in their coop since they are still young and we’d be worried if something might snatch them up during the night if they had...
We have three day old chicks we brought home yesterday. We were still playing around with the light height before putting a chicken mesh wire “top” on the brooder. Unfortunately, my children were able to open the door and threw some toys in the brooder and grabbed one little chick before we...
Hi all, first time hatching eggs, we're doing it naturally under some hens. They're just now starting to hatch but the heat index is in the 106 with humidity and we're worried it's too hot. They have food and cold water but im debating bringing them in so i thought I'd reach out and ask. How hot...
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About a week ago I lost 4 of my 6 chickens (pullets) to a fox attack. I am trying to replace them ASAP so the other 2 are not too lonely, although they seem extremely bored and a bit different than before. For example they crave attention a lot more and come running much quicker than...