New to Backyard Chickens Website. Excited & Need Help/Opinion:) :)

[Delp]

Hi Everyone!
We brought home pullets 4 years ago and have enjoyed the experience without much drama or challenges. We've decided to grow the family and just brought home two little baby chicks and are quickly realizing, they need A LOT more specialized care than our pullets did! They are so dang cute!!

We have two older chickens (Barred Rock & Easter Egger) and our little babies are an Olive Egger and a Biefelder. All purchased from Dare 2 Dream Farms. Our pullets love my 13 year old daughter but don't let anyone else pick them up so we are hoping that by starting with them earlier...the new additions will accept us all! We love their fresh eggs but love interacting with them too.

We live in Encino on an acre of land so plenty of space for them to roam but keep them mostly in their coop and 20 foot run as our two dogs like to follow and eat their droppings. I'm not got to tell you what has happened too many times after the dogs ate too much of that.... but we let them out for a few hours a day most days of the week! We also have 2 fish and both my daughter and son are clamoring for a pig (but that's not going to happen).

I found BackYard Chickens while prepping/research for our pullets 3 years ago and often visit for amazing info! Now we are a bit desperate as one of our little chicks has some bloody poop and I'm on the fence about what to do! She does not seem lethargic in anyway so I can't decide if she's just expelling the intestinal lining or if she's sick (she has sneezed a bit too). One day was a lot of bloody poop but today, just a tiny smidge in some but the rest all looks normal. I went to the store this am and bought some Corid but when I see that most of the poop look ok now - I'm so confused!!! I would so appreciate thoughts on if I should treat them or wait to see if the bloody poop continues. Thanks in advance to all!!

 

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.
How old are the chicks now?
Exactly how long have you had them?
Were they on the ground at the farm you purchased them from?
Did you take any pictures of the bloody poop?

 

[drumstick diva]

Thank you for joining us at BYC, you are very welcome here. I believe BYC has a chart of stool samples and what they indicate. I would think you can find them through the search function.

 

[N F C]

Hello, hope everything will be ok with your chicks.

 

[Delp]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.
How old are the chicks now?
Exactly how long have you had them?
Were they on the ground at the farm you purchased them from?
Did you take any pictures of the bloody poop?

Hi. Thank you! We picked them up 6 days ago and they said they were between 4-10 days old so I'm guessing approaching 2 week mark. They are on medicated crumbles. They were in a brooder box when we picked up (Dare 2 Dream Farms). We noticed first blood late Sunday night. I immediately called the farm Monday am and they told me to get the Corid but track and feed store was closed yesterday hence waiting till today. But when I got back from picking up...their recent poop was all normal. I wish I had taken pictures! My daughter is cleaning the box 2x a day so it's dry and clean. It's so hard to tell the shedding of intestinal lining vs. actually bloody stool when the poop sample is so dang tiny!!! Are they supposed to sleep a lot in the first few weeks? They are getting up every hour to nibble and drink and had spunk when we took them outside.

 

[Isaac 0]

Hello, and Welcome to BackYard Chickens! So glad you decided to join!

 

[Delp]

Thank you for joining us at BYC, you are very welcome here. I believe BYC has a chart of
stool samples and what they indicate. I would think you can find them through the search function.

THanks! I've seen the chart. So hard to determine normal bloody intestine expelling vs. bloody stool w/ sample so little. I'm trying to go off their behavior and they don't seem "listless/lethargic" but ARE sleeping a lot. I am not sure what is normal for this age. (about 2 weeks).

 

[sourland]

Hello, and welcome to BYC.

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

Welcome to our FUNomenal Flock!
Grab a roost & enjoy your time here!

 

[chrissynemetz]

Hi and welcome to BYC! We're glad you joined us! How much time during the day are they sleeping? If you could manage to get poo pictures it would help a lot. Are they eating and drinking ok?