Are their poops normal? Are you using medicated chick feed?
Poops look normal, nothing like what I understand coccidiosis looks like if that's an idea. Mostly soft-firm poops. Am using medicated chick "Starter-Grower" 18% from Nutrena. Also still have the Sav-A-Chick electrolytes in the water, could that be overkill? The second chick is not near death yet, but definitely not acting right and the crop is different.
 
Is it able to eat the food? Try grinding it into smaller bits, it may just be having an issue with large bite size pieces of food, if you have a rolling pin you can crush some, or a small coffe grinder, I used a hammer, put some crumble feed in a cotton sheet to cover the feed and keep it from flying around, and hammered it good into small pieces.
There's a mix of big and small bits in there and a fair amount of dust but I wondered about that. I'll remove the feeder and quickly mash it tomorrow. Is it possible a bigger piece could stick somewhere along the way?
 
Poops look normal, nothing like what I understand coccidiosis looks like if that's an idea. Mostly soft-firm poops. Am using medicated chick "Starter-Grower" 18% from Nutrena. Also still have the Sav-A-Chick electrolytes in the water, could that be overkill? The second chick is not near death yet, but definitely not acting right and the crop is different.
If you can take a photo of the crumb size compared to your grups feed it will give us an idea on the crumb size. My starter fees has tiny crumbs.

This is my chick starter
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And I bought some grower that was even smaller crumbs - pretty much dust. I make a mash with it.
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Actually you should make a mash for them they should really like it. And I found it was very palatable for the chicks.
 
There's a mix of big and small bits in there and a fair amount of dust but I wondered about that. I'll remove the feeder and quickly mash it tomorrow. Is it possible a bigger piece could stick somewhere along the way?
I wouldn’t say so. Try warm mash (porridge like) for them - bet they all enjoy that. Just a small amt at first a handful. Warm water to make it a porridge 😊
 
Dunno. But if so grit is definitely needed
Good idea! Grit, or gravel or dirt, I read somewhere that someone take a chunk of sod and puts it in with the chicks to peck at grass and dirt, gives their immune system a boost.

I did that with the school chicks and they demolished the chunk!
 

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