sick chicks

  1. Shomare

    12 Baby Chicks 5 SWOLLEN EYES/SIDE OF HEAD

    We bought chicks of various breeds around Easter. Problem: One's eye was shut, and swollen all around it (6-7 days ago now). We thought it was pecked or something, as there were no other signs we noticed wrong with it (eats, drinks, moves around fine, good balance, very active when washing out...
  2. Goldnmine

    Sick chick or not?

    New to the chick world. I have 4 pullets. They are about 3-4 weeks old. They are active but I have been noticing diarrhea in the pen (dark brown color) I am feeding medicated starter feed, I notice from time to time to of them looked kinda ruffled feathers and off to themselves. I was reading on...
  3. Backyard Farm Nerd

    Contagious Pate butt?

    Last week I purchased 12 day old chicks from my local feed store. One of them wasn't growing as fast as the others and kept getting paste butt. When I checked on them yesterday evening she was dead. I figured it was some kind of intestinal abnormality and wasn't worried about it. However, this...
  4. heartsandwings

    Could this be coccidiosis?

    I have 6 chicks (Plymouth rocks and wyandottes) and I found this poop on their heat mat this morning. This is my third brood, and I have never had an issue with coccidiosis in any of my adult chickens, or chicks before... So I don't really know what I am doing... I have begun adding coccidiostat...
  5. N

    Concerned about new chick

    Hello, so my sister in law purchased 3 chicks from a local farm supply store. We don't know how old they are or anything. We've had them in a homemade brooder with a red heat lamp. They've been doing fine but tonight I noticed the biggest one kinda freaking out. She's flying back and forth in...
  6. G

    1 week old guinea hen has crusty eye

    Hi everyone, my grandma has a flock of about 8 guinea hens. One of the females had about 15 chicks this year and every year the others of the flock just kill them all off. Well I couldn't watch that happen this year. I went and picked 11 of them up ( they are about a week old now ) and put them...
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