weight gain

  1. SugarDewdrop

    How To Help My Turkey Lose Weight

    Hello! I have a nearly 1 year old BBW turkey hen. We never meant to have her and are still learning the ropes. We only have chickens at the moment plus one turkey, Junebug. We are unable to cull her, so we are trying to give her the best possible life. However, she has gained more weight...
    • SugarDewdrop
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    • bbw turkeys help turkey weight weight gain weight loss
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Turkeys
  2. ekd

    New babies, new mama!

    Hi all- I bit the bullet on Friday and bought four baby chicks. Elphaba and Galinda are Cream Legbars and are nine days old Nessa is a Sapphire Easter Egger and is six days old and Bocky is a black Austrolorp and is six days old I've been weighing them on a kitchen scale since Saturday...
  3. BuffBrahmaBantams

    Help, very skinny hen

    Hi, I have a Brahma hen who is extremely skinny, this is just the way she is, but her keel is so easy to feel, it looks like the underside of a cruise ship, any tips to help her gain some weight in a healthy way. She eats 16% protein layer feed and has scratch and plenty of water. This isn’t...
  4. makNcheese

    I can not get my birds to gain weight!!!

    Hi everyone! I’d like to think I’m pretty knowledgeable about chickens at this point, but this is something I have never struggled with before. I absolutely cannot get my birds to gain weight. I thought it was their feed so I switched to higher protein and add game bird feed. After that I got...
  5. ChickChic00

    Cooked Plain Spaghetti Noodles

    Can I feed my chickens cooked spaghetti noodles plain to fatten them up? They are very thin. They eat a ton of food, they are sprayed and checked for mites. They are also de wormed on a regular basis, and they free range. I'm not eating them, just looking for them to bulk up on weight before it...
  6. M

    Intro and help please!

    Hi I'm Heather New mum to a human baby (8 months) and 2 aylesbury ducklings they hatched 5th april. I brought home 3, but We have sadly lost one a few days ago, one is really small and one is huge.. We are now worried about the small duckling as she doesn't appear to be gaining weight. They...
    • Mills83
    • Thread
    • advice aylesbury duckling help poorly small weight gain worried
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Ducks
  7. A

    Chick Won't Open Eye, Not Gaining Weight

    Hi all, My baby chick is almost 4 weeks old. A week ago, her right eye was shut tight and has not opened since (pic from this morning). She's the only one that ever had pasty butt and has always seemed a little slower, unsteady, but last week was really beginning to fight for her place in the...
  8. megdiamond

    Increasing weight

    Any advice/tips on how to get some chickens to gain weight? I've added chick starter to their layer feed and I am feeding them a scrambled egg a day. I can feel their breast bone and they are silkies. It is winter here (-35 C) and they aren't able to free range.
  9. AChickenBoi

    Would raw egg be ok to help gain a healthy weight

    When I asked to see what would be a good food to help my VERY underweight roo put on some weight (the vet’s measurements said that he was only 50-60 ounces in weight, and since he’s gotten better from what was ailing him, I’m working on putting some weight on him), someone said that raw egg yolk...
  10. Lucy Wild

    help! underfed chickens - need help safely gaining weight

    hi its my first time raising chickens and my flock (17 hens from 3-6months old, 1 rooster about 1 year) seems unanimously underweight. A friend of ours helped us find our flock from a few different sources and had them live in on his farm until we finished building our barn (about 3 months) he...
  11. L

    Chicken waddling and gained weight, worried!

    Hello! I have a 4 yo Rhode Island Red. She’s the sturdiest biggest and healthiest chicken in our coop until recently. She seems to have gained a lot of weight in only a week, she hasn’t laid any eggs and her waddling seems slower and less sturdy. He legs also seem more wide-set. Her wattle...
  12. B

    Is my Cochin chick too underweight?

    Hi All, I have 8 chicks, each one is a different breed. I just weighed them for the first time at 3 weeks today and my Cochin chick is quite a bit smaller than the rest. She was the smallest the day she shipped also and was having trouble getting off her back when she flipped over. After day...
  13. jackoeVogel23

    Cephalexin Side Effects?

    so my one female pekin had some issues with not laying, the doctor thought maybe it was an infection so she prescribed her cephalexin 2 times a day for a little over a week. Yesterday morning was her last treatment. I noticed her face has gotten a little fatter. Is this normal? I posted...
    • jackoeVogel23
    • Thread
    • antibiotic antibiotics cephalexin duck duck advice ducks sick side effects weight weight gain
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Ducks
  14. duckiemom41

    Pekin Underweight

    My Pekin Lillie has had a Niacin deficiency and unable to walk for the last several weeks. I received some really great advise on this forum as to what to give her and she is improving everyday :) I did notice that she seems very small compared to our other duck Georgia. Lillie did have a loss...
    • duckiemom41
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    • niacin deficiency pekin weight gain
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Ducks
  15. FirstTimeClucky

    Chicks losing weight?

    About three weeks ago I bought three Silkie chicks. One was 6 weeks old, the others about 3 weeks. I've been picking each of them up every day or two, to tame them and get them used to being handled. They are getting noticeably bigger, but today I noticed their keel bones are sticking out, which...
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