Clump of grass with dirt in it.

[ChickensAreSweet]

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I agree with you centrarchid about the mealworms and fish. I hope I was clear in what I posted before and you aren't thinking that I disagreed.

 

[NightsInWhiteSilkies]

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haha! I named her after the movie Thelma and Loise. She is the timid shyer one and Louise is the bumping sumu bellies standing tall eyeing her.
Ill try to take some morre pics in the morning. I turned their light off and their sleepin now.

 

[centrarchid]

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Totally agree. I've raised chicks w/ broodies for almost a decade. She takes them out to dirt 3rd or 4th day. I've never had a cocci problem. Only time I had cocci was my very first chicks I raised in the house. They went to outside big coop at 7 weeks...all had cocci. Give them the dirt!!

I have raised chicks for thirty five years. Until recently all were hen raised and feeds specifically formulated for chickens were not used, nor were medications. Losses to cocciodosis were not evident. After moving to new location from southern Indiana to central Missouri and transplanting birds as well, cocci have proven to be a major problem for my transplanted games, especially those that are brooder raised. My locally acquired stocks of American dominiques have proven quite resistant to the same cocci that decimate my games when both are raised together in brooder and measures are not taken to control introduction of cocci to brooder without use of an effective cocciostat. The free-range hen raised games are much more resistant to cocci. They also begin foraging roughly 36 hours after hatch of first chick.

I have seem similar problem with American dominiques acquired from a producer in North Carolina where those birds even as adults get hammered by rounds worms that do not appreciably impact my other birds.