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  1. R

    Bully 4 week old chick

    Hi, i have 3 chicks from the hatchery last May 17. 2 were male and 1 was female. One male last week had a bloody diarrhea and i treated them all with Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole. They are on day 4 of treatment, tomorrow will be their last day. For the first two days of treatment, the male is...
    • ReiK
    • Thread
    • bleed bully chick feather injury peck picking pulling separate stress
    • Replies: 32
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  2. U

    Stressed and scared dog

    Hello, I am asking for advice about my dog. She is a border collie rescue, about 10 years old. We got three chickens last fall. We live in the suburbs, and have a reinforced prefab coop with an extended run built around it using wire fencing. This is inside our fenced yard. My problem is that my...
  3. S

    Runny Droppings on 3-week-old Bantam

    I have a bantam that has just recently started flying up to our hands and seems to want to be handled. However, this afternoon, it seems to be under the heat plate more and has runny droppings/diarrhea. It also doesn't seem to be eating as much as usual or I haven't caught it when I've checked...
  4. A

    Sick Chicken

    I think I have a sick chicken or she’s super stressed. She’s been a bit bullied and today I had to pull her from the coop because her comb was bleeding (someone took a small piece of it) and her comb is more pink than red which I had just assumed was weather related but now I have her in my...
  5. Newbie_Chicken_Lady

    Release your stress

    Hello BYC Community, This thread has been created to release some drama. Please keep it appropriate. Last night I was supposed to be sleeping but instead I was texting my friend. This friend shall be called Sam. Well to put it plain, I have feelings for Sam. Anyway we were talking on the phone...
  6. B

    Chinese quail dead

    I hatched chixks from incubator and when they were about 3 week old, someone can to buy off me. They came and took 2 of the quail out of the 27, when they got home in the car, both eventually passed away at night. what could be the reason for this. Maybe travel sick, stress???
  7. Kathymary

    Hello.. just searching for information.

    Hello, I am Kathymary (or Kathleen Mary) my husband took care of our little flock (Four birds; One Barred Rock, 2 Orpingtons, 1 Bantam. ) more than I ever did. He died of cancer in January and I've continued to care for them. I am enjoying the responsibility. They are egg laying Hens, nearly...
  8. B

    Weird feather colors after isolation.

    My pet chicken , Kitty , is now 6 months old. It turned out to be a rooster. I had to leave for a while and she has been in her cage. My mom fed and watered her , but has never took her out for sun. I came back to see her waddles all gray and shriveled. After some care and outside time she is...
  9. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Bullied Hen Won't Roost or Lay

    Hello, Over our first year and a half of chicken-keeping, we've had several illnesses/injuries that ended up splitting our flock due to re-integration issues. We had 5 girls in our large coop/run and then 2 hens who had healed from long-term issues in a smaller coop/run alongside the main one...
  10. H

    Chicken run help

    Good day all! I'm pretty new to raising chickens so any help would be greatly appreciated. I want to build a new coop and run for my hens but I'm unsure of where I should put it. The current chicken coop is not on flat ground and causes issues with water pooling and several other issues that...
  11. M

    Stressed chicks

    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...
  12. Elie And Her Flock

    Liquid white droppings with green chunks

    Hey guys! I'm new to the Backyard Chickens site, and fairly new to chicken keeping - i've been doing it for 2 years now. Today while cleaning my flock's coop, I noticed that one of my chickens (a 2 year old hen) was not being herself - lethargic, hunched over, not eating and barely moving. I...
  13. Jaitimer

    Thoughts appreciated — chickens not laying

    Hello! Our 8 chickens will be a year old end of July. Been outside in coop full time since last fall and started laying in December. For a few months were averaging 4-5 eggs a day (even through winter)...now only 1-2. Here is what I can tell you: they’re free range most of the day no evidence...
  14. ABaker787

    Is George Stressed?

    George is my smallest baby, one of two OEGBs in my little flock, and never wants anything to do with running after treats or me holding them. Also, he doesn’t often lay with his peers. I’ve had them for 5 days now, could s/he still be stressed from the new environment? Or perhaps s/he is at the...
  15. DiveyChickens

    Possible Infection?

    As a disclaimer to any dumb statements/questions I may pose, I'll say: We are brand new to keeping chickens. Everything we know has been learned online and/or from a few friends we know who "grew up" with chickens. So, we started with a small flock of only 3 birds. Today marks one full week that...
  16. B

    Chicken in shock after introducing new hens?

    My Wyandotte’s have been on the extreme side of being easily stressed. The first time we introduced new hens to the flock, the molted from stress and their feathers grew back brittle. They’re still brittle 2 years later. We’ve been giving them crumble per the vet to try and increase their...
  17. Helen_Jayne

    Stress or coccidiosis??

    Please can anyone advise? I recently added a couple of sebrights to the flock which we raised indoors from day old, so they had been quarantined. Stupid mistake, I put them all on the same perch with the other birds. I noticed one of the hens (Popcorn), who always goes next to them had lost...
  18. minaayindra

    Chick attacked, head won’t stop twitching!

    I am trying to introduce my hand-raised chicks into a new coop with a hen and her chick at the same time. The chick is submissive so he isn’t an issue. When I brought 2 of my other chicks into the coop, the hen pinned down the most submissive one and brutally attacked her. I got the hen off but...
  19. M

    Cayuga Coop

    Hello I recently became the parent to two cayuga ducks (1 male 1 female) this spring. We purchased a chicken coop about a month after keeping them in a smaller cage when they were ducklings. The new coop has a fenced in area and a coop that they must walk up a ramp to get to. The ducks love the...
    • malkymick
    • Thread
    • cayuga duck coop alternative duck run stress trained
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Ducks
  20. Nats Chickens

    Hurt and possibly stressed guinea pig!

    My guinea pig Timtam has spurs growing on her feet. I was cutting one off, all good. I cut the other off, and as I am doing it she pulls back her leg and tears the skin. She is bleeding but not much. I put her with some towels for a floor and hideys in the laundry sink with some food. I am...
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