Chicken rant

[ASAP_Honeybee]

She's not wrong about them being outside earlier being better for them. Many of us do either early exposure or have them in an outdoor brooder from day one for that reason. However, they do need to be in an area safe from predators and they should have chick grit available and they do need to be able to get warm if needed (or someone should be supervising and bring them in if they get too chilled)

What she expected headache medicine to do to help a sick chick though is beyond me, either it caught something like a respiratory infection, coccidiosis or had a crop issue from not getting grit (personally I would be inclined to think either they needed grit or they couldn't get warm easily) and headache medicine will do diddley squat to help that and could be toxic in of itself

Yeah, that's true. She doesn't supervise them though and she leaves them outside until 9 pm. We have passionfruit in our backyard, so that unfortunately creates a hiding place and home for the rats and the chicks like to go dig there since it's shady.

I'm unsure why she thinks that. I think she assumes since it works for humans then it works for animals too which is far from true. She didn't know about corid and coccidiosis until recently too. I don't think chickens get headaches as well nor does the medicine do any well for the chickens.