Significant size difference

[Rose Quartz]

Are there crops impacted? Could be just the picture but feed looks like a pellet not a crumble

I just felt one of them, seemed squishy and normal. Not how i'd expect an impacted crop to feel. But I haven't had any birds with that problem that I know of.

There's definitely something in there. But Feeling 3 larger chicks crops I don't feel anything in their crops at all.

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Idk, I'll give their new family the suggestions you guys had.


Electrolytes in the water, and wet feed.

You could put a bit of their chick starter in a very shallow dish and add water. Chicks usually love that, and because the pieces fall apart when wet it may be easier for the small ones to eat.

(Of course, if the small ones actually have some other problem, that will not help them, but it should not hurt them either.)

I haven't had success with wet feed previously. It gets mushed down and turned into a hard cake and no one can eat it. If it's just 2 it might be fine.

Right now I am too busy helping my friend with her farm to really take care of these guys more than I am. The people who want them seem to be fine with the idea that they might not be perfect.

 

[NatJ]

Right now I am too busy helping my friend with her farm to really take care of these guys more than I am. The people who want them seem to be fine with the idea that they might not be perfect.

That does sound like a good solution

Good idea, including the photo of feed with your hand and a chick for scale. That looks like normal size chick starter, so I don't think the feed size is the problem. I'm not sure why it was looking so much bigger in some of the other photos