Chicks Sick!

[BANTAMWYANDOTTE]

Sorry this old post's content have been removed to make room in my uploads page and the older uploads were important. The chicks are fine and are nearly grown, they were re-homed and are very happy. Thanks for all the advice!

 

[sheila3935]

are you sure its diarrhea? They have whats called a cecal poo every so often. I think its like every 8 poos. There is a web site For the life of me cant remember what its called but it has pictures of all the different poos they have and whats normal and whats not. Maybe someone on here can give you the link.

 

[BANTAMWYANDOTTE]

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It is solid and light brown...They are acting fine but I never saw it before and now I've seen two new piles of loose poo in two days! I am worried about them...I had 29 but had to get rid of 20 of them due to space reasons. I kept all my black ones and a red one...They were all living on arrival and all are still alive but I didn't treat for Mereak's when I ordered. Now I am freaking out. I don't want to loose ANY. Not many people order 29 chicks and all 29 live to three weeks! I have been lucky I just hope my luck hasn't run out!

BANTAMWYANDOTTE

 

[MetalSmitten]

could they be getting overheated and drinking a lot of water to cool back down? hard to say =/ there's a chart somewhere around here showing pictures of different types of chicken poo, to give you an idea of what might be going on. sorry i dont have the link handy, but a quick search should find it

 

[BANTAMWYANDOTTE]

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THANK YOU....The tempature thing is possible. I live in Kentucky and lately it has been hot during the day and cold at night and raining. They are in a metal building in my back yard. I go check them as soon as I get up and adjust the temp throughout the day to keep it a 85 degrees. I have walked out and it was to hot or too cold but I check them often. If it is too cold I turn on another light at the other end of the pen (the pen is the length of one wall in the building...six foot) but usually they are not huddled up or laying down. In other words, they never appear uncomfortable (until you pick them up...Which is not often) I am so WORRIED!

 

[AngelzFyre]

Here's the link to the "Poop Chart"

http://www.chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=17568.0

Hope everyone's feeling better now!

 

[BANTAMWYANDOTTE]

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THANK YOU IT FELL UNDER NORMAL...I WAS WORRIED FOR NOTHING BUT I READ EARLIER TODAY THAT THE AVERAGE HATCHEY CHICK HAS A HIGH MORTALITY RATE AND THAT USUALLY NEW OWNER ONLY RAISE 25% OF WHAT THEY ORDER TO ADULT-HOOD AND EXPERIANCED OWNERS (ME) RAISE ONLY 48-53% OF WHAT THEY ORDER. THOSE ARE SCARY NUMBERS! NOW YOU SEE WHY I PANICED?

THANK YOU SON MUCH!!!!!!

BANTAMWYANDOTTE

 

[AngelzFyre]

You're so welcome!
Just relax and read on this forum all you can and you'll be fine! ALL of us started somewhere and learn something new daily

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You're just learning how to become a good chicken mama and like everyone says...there's no dumb question! I spent literally hours upon hours of my spare time every night on here after everyone went to sleep, just trying to soak in all the information and researched answers on all the questions I had.
This website has taught me more than any of the books I've read, and everyone is so helpful and pretty quick to answer when you do have a problem.
Glad to be of help too and pay it forward!
Take care and you're going to be fine, I promise!

 

[petit]

need help my chickens are sick and not sure how much terramycin, duramycin-10 to mix in water can anyone help

 

[MetalSmitten]

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petit, start your own thread under the emergencies/diseases section - more people will see it that way.

you'll need to provide more details probably for people to be able to help, like symptoms and ages etc.