Dead chicken and water looks weird

[BigBlueHen53]

Those are products I woukd use. There is no guarantee diatamious will work by itself. I may have been a little extreme with how I handled. I however wanted the mites gone . Scrub ..spray ..and dust chickens. New bedding.
Right now I have a chick about 3 months old that keeps turning summersaults and now that I quarented the little lady I have observed she is doing this on purpose ...I was afraid it was wry kneck. She is definately flipping on purpose..I just don't know why.

This is not normal behavior. You might start a thread on this and see if anyone has any suggestions as to why this is happening.

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

Those are products I woukd use. There is no guarantee diatamious will work by itself. I may have been a little extreme with how I handled. I however wanted the mites gone . Scrub ..spray ..and dust chickens. New bedding.
Right now I have a chick about 3 months old that keeps turning summersaults and now that I quarented the little lady I have observed she is doing this on purpose ...I was afraid it was wry kneck. She is definately flipping on purpose..I just don't know why.

I found a way to give them new bedding the closest feed store is 30 minutes away and I’m pretty low on money so I mowed and used the grass (chicken safe grass) as bedding

 

[DLA]

I found a way to give them new bedding the closest feed store is 30 minutes away and I’m pretty low on money so I mowed and used the grass (chicken safe grass) as beddingView attachment 3633167

I use grass in the run & coop sometimes but I usually dry it first on a tarp turning it so it doesn't mold. Just as a caution chickens will sometimes over eat on fresh grass and get crop issues. I've never had mine try to eat too much of it when it was fully dried and mixed in with wood chips.

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

I use grass in the run & coop sometimes but I usually dry it first on a tarp turning it so it doesn't mold. Just as a caution chickens will sometimes over eat on fresh grass and get crop issues. I've never had mine try to eat too much of it when it was fully dried and mixed in with wood chips.

Mine don’t really eat it, they chew or roll in it and it was a last effort real quick since I had no pine

 

[SmiYa0126]

I use grass in the run & coop sometimes but I usually dry it first on a tarp turning it so it doesn't mold. Just as a caution chickens will sometimes over eat on fresh grass and get crop issues. I've never had mine try to eat too much of it when it was fully dried and mixed in with wood chips.

X2 I had one hen that overate some hay which blocked her up. Also, chickens don't chew, they just swallow.

 

[HenriettaPizzaNolan]

I found a way to give them new bedding the closest feed store is 30 minutes away and I’m pretty low on money so I mowed and used the grass (chicken safe grass) as beddingView attachment 3633167

Another tip: in the fall, bag up dry leaves and you can use them as free bedding for the chickens all year long. That's what I've been doing. I just turn the bedding every so often and add more leaves on top. Then every season I do a full change.

 

[HeritageFan]

I found a way to give them new bedding the closest feed store is 30 minutes away and I’m pretty low on money so I mowed and used the grass (chicken safe grass) as beddingView attachment 3633167

I appreciate the “thinking outside the box” approach!
However.
You are going to need to get in there w a rake and toss at the least daily, twice (or three times) daily might be safer depending on the temps and humidity where you live.
Having horses.... I can say w certainty that cut green grass that isn’t turned can mold quickly, and can get HOT quickly as well.
....but I would think you will be ok as long as you “toss/rake” it. A fan in the coop would also help it dry out more quickly.
Just watch for mold, hot spots, or any area that “poofs” a “cloud” of “dust”
Aka mold spores.
You will have to go back to the drawing board if you see that.
Dealing w respiratory issues w your flock will cost a lot more (time, effort, meds, and possible losses) than taking the time to keep tossing the grass clippings, and honestly- all of that will take a lot more time and effort than taking the trip to the feed store to get either clean straw for bedding (if you have a dry place to store it), or pine/ for shavings in bags (which are already wrapped but still should be protected from severe weather, in a shed, under a tarp, whatever you are able to do)....
IMO
Is worth the trip and get enough of whatever you can safely store to make it worth the trip...
If you have the ability.... I would also suggest going on Amazon and ordering some VetRX... just in case you end up w mold before you realize you have it... it is basically like Vicks VaboRub for your birds. But you would need to have the new bedding in the coop (IF mold becomes an issue), before applying the VetRX...

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I don't give my chickens fresh grass clippings bc I worry about digestive blockages. I never gave it to my horses when I had them, either. If you take a handful of clippings and squeeze it, does it clump together? It might do that in the chickens' crop, too, and form a lump that won't digest. At least I'm always afraid that might happen. Let me ask some smarter people than me if that's the case or if I'm just a big worrywart, lol!

@aart, @azygous, @Eggcessive

 

[HeritageFan]

I don't give my chickens fresh grass clippings bc I worry about digestive blockages. I never gave it to my horses when I had them, either. If you take a handful of clippings and squeeze it, does it clump together? It might do that in the chickens' crop, too, and form a lump that won't digest. At least I'm always afraid that might happen. Let me ask some smarter people than me if that's the case or if I'm just a big worrywart, lol!

@aart, @azygous, @Eggcessive

I don’t give grass clippings to my horses, either-
They do a fine job on pasture all by themselves
But I’ve helped on enough hay fields to know how fast things can turn the wrong way!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I don’t give grass clippings to my horses, either-
They do a fine job on pasture all by themselves
But I’ve helped on enough hay fields to know how fast things can turn the wrong way!

We didn't have pasture, just a couple of acres and had to feed hay, as it was basically dirt. My DH at the time wanted to throw them clippings from mowing our large back yard and I told him no.