Hello all! I have a little emergency and came here for advice. This morning I went out to check in some chicks who I had put outside about a week ago. They had been doing really, really well even as of last night, but this afternoon I went to check on them again and on of my Swedish Flower...
i adopted this 3 month old baby chick, i bought a baby silkie and saw a sad looking chick in the corner, i asked the owner/breeder how much for him and he gave him to me for free, since he cant walk. He told me he had taken him to the vet before and the vets only response was to kill the chick...
I purchased a silkie chick one month ago and she doesn't seem to be growing.. she has just very little. she is still as small as the palm of my hand. See picture below. I'm not sure what to do exactly. she is so small lol. thanks for any tips y'all can give me!
I would really love to get a couple baby pea chicks. I would like to give one to my Mom for Mother's Day and raise the other with my baby chicks. Anyone near KY have any available?
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We bought four new chicks from a feed supply store 5 weeks ago and one of them was supposed to be a barred rock pullet. She has not developed any barring and I am concerned she is not a barred rock at all... any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Al
1st photo: Bonnie at 4...
I was helping Cin move the bigger chicks into the coop today when we noticed this one's neck was suddenly crooked. She can hold it straight, but when she looks upwards, it tilts. We're not sure if one of the other chicks accidentally stepped on her or if it's something else. You can see...
This is my 6 week Ayam cemani
mix chick. What are these feathers on her back are they silkie ( she is about the size of a 4 wk old) ? Also it is a high possibilaty that one of her parents where silkie.
I live in N VA and the lows at night can get into the twenties. My pen outside is 8x6x5ft tall, on the ground, using straw as a deep litter method for the winter. Half is covered by a tarp for rain and there is a "coop" box that is shielded from the elements (straw deep litter too). I have 12...
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I have a lovely 4 week light Sussex chick. The chick was happy and healthy until until last night when I noticed he was spending more time under the brooder than usual, constantly wanting to sleep, rarely eating and has loose bowels with blood in sometimes. The vets around my area don’t...
My chicks are just over 5 weeks old and I was planning to turn the heat lamp off at 6 weeks as per articles and advise I have read but my issue is its winter here and is getting as low as 2 to 3 degrees in the nights/early mornings. Should I leave it on until its not so cold? Also, we should be...
I have 8 chicks that are now over a month old. I have noticed that all the other chicks will put themselves to bed in the roost where they sleep but 1.
I have read that maybe its being picked on but shes the biggest one and is the one that pulls the other chicks into line when they are out free...
Hello, I bought 8 more chicks to add to my flock of 4. When the chicks grew to pullets, I introduced them to my older chickens. I thought everything was going well, maybe one or two pecks at each other, but nothing bad at all. Yesterday, when I got home from school, I found one of the pullets...
So I have 12 chicks, about 4 weeks old. The bigger ones enjoy jumping into the edges of their box and roosting since they are inside and not outside. I have a feeling that one may have cluelessly jumped down on this smaller chick. She has been acting strange lately. She still eats and was...
Right I am going to be 100% honest and not beat around the bush.
Today I put my 3 chicks on nesting straw and the problem with the nesting straw is it gets in to the water. So I tried to make the water higher then the floor brooder so that the straw couldn't get in by putting a turned over...
My four week old chick appears to have a white worm attached to the corner of his eye. I noticed something white in the corner of his eye yesterday, and when I wiped his eye with a wet cloth a stringy white piece hung out of his eye. It never looked like it moved at all, but from reading posts...
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I picked up my hen's only baby chick today and saw that in the corner of their eye closest to their beak, there are clear worms moving around in there :( I have no idea how long they've had this issue but they seem to be functioning normally and thankfully I haven't seen them...
As hybrid hens are hard to sex as they are not colour linked etc I was wondering if the females take after the fathers colours and the males take after there mother because the ones we have pin pointed as males are the same colour as the Mum and visa versa I also read that if you have a fast...
Hi All,
I am new to this, but we've decided it's time to move our chicks out of the house (between the smell, the dust and the lack of space it's beyond time).
My question is will it be ok for them to be in the garage for a week or so while we get the coop built? We have it framed, but not...
Am new to the site and would like to know what these chicks are.
I bought two white little chicks from a nearby lady who sells some baby chicks and told me that they were white ayam cemanis. I currently have bought 8 ayam cemani chicks.(2 sadly passed) and these two she said are special. Only...