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Hello everyone, this morning when I went to let out my flock I found my black almost two year old silkie hen Onyx not moving. She is laying down and panting. Her butt is dirty and has a lot of diarrhea. She will occasionally stand up but she keeps panting and closing her eyes. She will not walk...

Hi Everybody! I appreciate you taking the time to read my giant book of a thread. I really am searching for some help and answers. So a little back story. I went online in search of a local breeder because I wanted to support local and avoid obtaining chicks from mass suppliers. It was my first...

This chick had to manually be hatched. It is 6 days old. Today I noticed that it was stumbling around and it's crop was filled with gas. It hasn't eaten all day but it is drinking. Any advice??

Day before yesterday (possibly the day before that) I noticed my baby polish chick was acting weird (eyes half open), I feared it didn't have enough water so I filled the waterer with sugar water. Then later on I noticed one side of it's nose had stuff in it. I washed off what I could (I did not...

Hello. This is my first post as I am a first time chicken mom. My chicks are 2 weeks old. This little chick has a bald swollen spot beneath the vent / stomach area. I think it looks like a problem inside the chick, the spot feels hard and looks painful to me. Does anyone know what this could be...

Hello there, we got baby chicks yesterday from a market, and the next day one of the four baby chicks who was doing fine yesterday is standing up and closing its eyes and isn’t moving around, the other chicks seem completely fine just eating and chirping. This one is just standing there and...

My chick is 8 days old. It is smaller than the rest and can be very loud. He had feathers but not much. He has struggles with walking as the umbilical cord got wrapped around his leg bu I managed to pry it off so hopefully he will improve. Do you reckon that there is another issue because he...

Hi, Long story short I had five 2 week old chicks but three died after they all contracted some respiratory problem. I felt so bad for the gasping little guys o tool them to the vets around the start of the month and got some medicine. 2 weeks on that hadn't cured the last two so we've switched...

Help. I have a hen, Magna, who has started acting ill or sad. Magna is isolating herself from my other chickens. I have two other hens and a rooster. The rooster and one of the hens is new. I have had them for about a month now and she has been acting this way for about a week now. She eats...

Hi! I got 6 chicks the other day from TSC. There are two Ameraucanas, two silver laced Wyandottes, and two Penedesencas. One of the Penedesencas is a lot smaller than all of the other chicks and stands in the corner while the others scratch the shavings. She also seems to sleep often. We just...

I have two 6 week old polish chicks and when I went to check on them, I noticed one of them wasn't acting right. It was standing in one spot, shaking a little bit with its eyes closed; however when I reached for it to check it out, it became alert and moved. It didn't take long before it started...

I have two 6 week old polish chicks and when I went to check on them, I noticed one of them wasn't acting right. It was standing in one spot, shaking a little bit with its eyes closed; however when I reached for it to check it out, it became alert and moved. It didn't take long before it started...

I have a polish chick that is about a month old. She got pasty butt a few weeks ago that I thought I treated. Her vent is now swollen and gets “clogged” fairly easily but it’s not pasty butt. She’s in the house so that I can keep it clean. I’ve been rinsing it with warm water and applying...

Hey! I have 3 days old baby chicks in very bad condition. They aren't eating but drinking. They not even move from their place.

My baby bardrock chick named rex started showing signs of wry neck at two weeks when she began to get a bit tired/off balance and had a slight hunchback. I didn't notice till she was three weeks old and one day her neck was bent like a horse shoe. Her neck wasn't so bad that she couldn't eat or...

One of my three week old chicks has started to shake (not constantly) and lose balance, she can’t always keep her head up and opens her mouth a lot. Not sure how much she’s ate or drank today. Will try to link a video as soon as possible. Anyone know what could be wrong with her? Update: she’s...

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) This is about a cochin chick, about three or four weeks old. This chick is MUCH lighter and thinner than the other chicks it's age. It's a big difference. This chick looks less than 1/2 the...

Hi my loves, Im back and a bit anxious. Edit to add: After researching I did see that those symptoms are present in Gapeworms, but like I said, she is only kept indoors, alone, in a sterile brooder, so how would she have gotten gapeworms? It says they get it from infected feces of earthworms...